Noting so many distros and software people in Linux and open source are not aware of 64 bit processors...

there is no way to easily install many of the programs, add ons etc, into 64 bit systems (AMD may be only one I know of, but enough Intel bitches are out there, so I must assume most developers only use 32 bit)...

So, if they check, what good is it, if Adobe, (or firefox for that matter) doesn't have 64 bit compatability??)

I finally tossed my hands up, over the security and install problems and don't use Adobe Flash. (computer sped up, so an added plus to gnash!)

As long as the only standards the open source community follow are 32 bit and poor documentation (another ball of wax, related to first) they have a problem...

In the current implementation (beta), it only checks for updates via JavaScript at the launch page that you see when you install the update.
So it will "nag" you once per Firefox update, or never if you have something like NoScript installed.

Firefox should remove the update functionality from the Ubuntu version. Where all updates are handled by APT or UpdateManager.

Do you even own a Mac? I doubt it. The Flash thing was a slip up, nothing more.
Flash sucks anyway, if you ask me. It is a resource hogging advertisement platform, nothing more.
Firefox 3.5 is to be in the new semi-annual Ubuntu release 9.1 out in October. Looking forward it among other improvements over 9.04 I am using now.

"This would include Apple users who installed the cutting edge Leopard service pack "Snow Leopard", which shipped with an ancient and broken version of Flash.

Later Mozilla will check for other versions of things that are often insecure and users fail to upgrade.

Included will be the perfect Quicktime movie add-on which is never insecure and so users are still using the version that was first used to screen a Charlie Chaplin movie in monochrome in 1916."

You rule! :)
Anyway I hope this update will be smooth for users :)