32bit vs 64bit

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Sep 17 01:49:34 UTC 2008


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.

Rahul




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