Adobe Releases 64bit Flash Plugin for Linux

[Warren Togami]

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.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com