Alternative options for running flash-based software on x86_64 systems

As per the new droppage of the flashplugin for 64bit Arch, what should us 64bitters do?
What are these "alternative options" mentioned in the Arch news?

Alternative options to do what? What did you use Flash for?
I often say there are three ways Flash is used on the Internet:
Showing advertisements (I assume you don't want to get those working again)
Video games
Showing video
(did I miss anything?)
What are you trying to do?
EDIT: Also, I think there have been many threads on this topic. The general solution was to use 32 bit Flash in 64 bit Arch. As for me, I just stopped using Flash.
Last edited by drcouzelis (2010-06-23 18:03:45)

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