adobe pdf plugin and firefox -2.0.0.14

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri May 16 13:46:47 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 06:37 -0300, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:13 AM, François Patte
> <francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr> wrote:
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>         Bonjour,
>         
>         I update my f8 system and firefox version is now -2.0.0.14.
>         
>         the adobe plugin nppdf.so for pdf seems to no longer work with
>         this
>         version....
>         
>         Am I right?
>         
> 
> 
> Well, it does, but I also have this problem:
> 
> http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3c05a62b
> 
> mainly with the i386 architecture. My question is: why do
> we need nspluginwrapper for i386?

Apparently it's to force the plugin (which is binary-only) to run in a
separate process so it can't crash Firefox.

poc




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