How many FireFox 64bit users are there?

Arjan van de Ven arjan at fenrus.demon.nl
Sun Jan 15 14:21:32 UTC 2006


> I personally use one from mozilla.org at the moment because I do need
> things like flash and plugins like that.  Before you start whining
> telling me its closed source, my wife is a photorgrapher and her
> website has a lot of flash, I'm sure many of you can understand
> telling your wife no, can't go to your website because you used closed
> source flash would go over like a lead ballon ;)  And its not just
> here site, I go to a lot of places that have flash and so do a lot of
> people. 

the problem is this: if fedora starts shipping the 32 bit one..
macromedia will just not even think about starting a 64 bit port. Ever.
So it's sort of a chicken-and-egg problem, and the only way to break
that deadlock unfortunately is to have a bit of omelette :-(




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