Re: 32bit vs 64bit

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Patrick O'Callaghan writes:

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 22:05 -0400, 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.

Do you have libflashsupport installed? Note that on 64-bit systems you
need both the i386 and x86_64 versions.

(BTW, this has to be one of the most frequenty asked questions on this
list).

That might be the reason. I do not have any 32 bit stuff installed, and have "exclude=*.i386 *.i586 *.i686" in yumconf. Installing any 32 bit stuff adds so much bloat, that it's just not worth it.

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