32bit vs 64bit

David dgboles at gmail.com
Wed Sep 17 02:22:30 UTC 2008


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Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram writes:
> 
>> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>
>>> However, nothing stops you from installing 32 bit Firefox, which will
>>> run just fine on a 64 bit Fedora install.
>>
>> You don't have to do that. Fedora by default installs nspluginwrapper
>> which works with the 32-bit plugins on 64-bit arch. It also has the
>> advantage of adding more stability and security (via SELinux policy)
>> by separating the plugins into different process.
> 
> Maybe, but I was never able to get it to work. Installing
> nspluginwrapper didn't seem to have any effect. Flash never showed up as
> a registered plugin in Firefox, and there was absolutely no feedback
> whatsoever, regarding what the problem might be.
> 


Instructions for Flash in 64-bit Firefox

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f8/en_US/sn-Desktop.html#sn-KDE-Desktop

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  David
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