Flash for amd64

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Sun Mar 2 16:21:32 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 10:00 -0600, Mike Chambers wrote:
> Ok, so flash will not work *at all* with 64bit firefox?  And if I want
> to enable/use it, I have to install it, along with the firefox-i386
> version adn use *that* one when I want flash?

By default, Fedora 8 comes with nspluginwrapper that can be used to run
32bit plugins (such as flash) on 64bit firefox.
I use it daily (on both Fedora and RHEL/CentOS) and it works just fine.

> 
> Does anyone know if they are going to develop it for 64 bit any time
> soon?

In theory, yes.
I wouldn't hold my breath, though. *

- Gilboa
* Especially given the fact that they've yet to release 64bit version
flash/Vista/XP.





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