BTW I know it's not really Fedora's problem, but I don't think it's
possible to install a flash-enabled i386 Firefox on x86_64 anymore
This promises to be fun at FC5 time
Hey, rpm --erase and use the installer from mozilla.org to install
a 32-bit Mozilla, then install flash. Morality aside, 32-bit mplayer
can still link Windows DLL's... My main frustration is that the
joystick ioctls changed going to 64-bit and that breaks most 32-bit games.
Other operating systems install 32-bit applications under a 64-bit
kernel. For instance, Solaris 10 installs a largely 32-bit userspace
on both Sparc64 and AMD64. This has the nice effect that the same
Solaris 10 disk installs on both x86-32 and x86-64. This is probably a
good choice for SPARC, but AMD64 gets a performance boost from the
extra registers.
64-bit Windows ships with a 32-bit IE, largely for compatibility
with Active X controls.
The proprietary nature of flash burns me up too, but it's highly
effective and widely used... Pretty much a requirement for any machine
I use for serious web browsing. The worst thing is that a lot of sites
use broken "flash detection" algorithms that assume a Linux browser will
never support flash.
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