32bit vs 64bit

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Wed Sep 17 02:05:50 UTC 2008


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.

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