F14 youtube support?

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 2 12:42:14 UTC 2010


On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 2010-09-01, Michał Piotrowski <mkkp4x4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Is there any possibility to use Youtube in Fedora 14? First I tried to
>> install Adobe Flash 10.1. I tried to copy flashlib to various dirs
>> /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins, /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins,
>> ~/.mozilla/plugins, but about:plugins in Firefox doesn't show me any
>> informationa about flash support.
> Adobe Flash Player is not produced for x86_64 architecture by vendor.
> (It used to be, however it containted serious security flaws). To use
> it by 64b Firefox, you need to install a wrapper that converts 64b NPAPI
> to 32b. However according my experience it causes crashes (tested on
> Gentoo).
>
> So IMHO there is no way how to use Adobe Flash Player on x86_64.

Err no you are wrong, it is working fine here on multiple systems
using the wrapper on x86_64 and it does not cause a single crash.


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