nspluginwrapper.i386? Huh?

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Sat Dec 8 05:33:14 UTC 2007


Tom Horsley wrote:
> I know what it is, I don't know why there were both .x86_64 and
> .i386 versions of the rpm installed. A 32 bit wrapper to run 32 bit
> plugins seems completely idiotic :-).

It would seem so.  But one benefit that I was made aware of the other
day was that with the wrapper, if a plugin dies (like the latest
flash-plugin seems to like to do with some frequency), it doesn't take
your browser along with it.  Instead, it just kills itself (and, I
believe, the wrapper).

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