Adobe Releases 64bit Flash Plugin for Linux
Neal Becker
ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 19 01:10:51 UTC 2008
Warren Togami wrote:
> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Dennis J. <dennisml at conversis.de> wrote:
>>> But that's the point. For quite a few people browser stability actually
>>> *decreases* when nspluginwrapper is installed.
>>
>> No... your browser lives... the flash plugin dies.
>>
>> Without the wrapper... if the flash plugin does something crash-worthy
>> it crashes firefox completely. The way the wrapper works..flash
>> dies..the browser lives.
>>
>> -jef
>>
>
> nspluginwrapper development is still important. This is because
> nspluginwrapper runs plugins in a separate process, enabling the browser
> to survive inevitable plugin bugs, and also the possibility of
> additional security through security policy isolation of that separate
> process. Fedora 8+ has run all plugins, even native 32bit-on-32bit,
> wrapped in nspluginwrapper for this purpose.
>
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/nspluginwrapper-d...
> nspluginwrapper development discussion here. Please report your problems
> running the latest nspluginwrapper (currently 1.1.4) here. Gwenole is
> very good about responding to reports, often with patches to try.
>
> If you don't want to deal with reporting bugs, you are free to remove
> nspluginwrapper. But then you have to live with the browser crashes.
>
> http://macromedia.mplug.org/
> I maintain a list of tips and workarounds to workaround Flash problems
> here.
>
Does 32-bit flash-plugin have to be removed? I like to use a 32-bit flock around. Can I have both 32-bit flash and 64-bit flash? And, what will nspluginwrapper think of this? (I hope it will wrap the 64-bit version for 64 bit and the 32-bit version for 32 bit)
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