How many FireFox 64bit users are there?

dragoran dragoran at feuerpokemon.de
Sun Jan 15 14:14:04 UTC 2006


Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Justin Conover wrote:
>
>> I'm curious how many of the 64 bit os users out there, really need a 
>> 64bit web browser?
>>
>> Is there any reason you couldn't live with a 32 bit one?
>>
>> Can Fedora put firefox.i386 in the x86_64 tree, just like several 
>> other i386 rpms?
>>
>> I realize adding it is pretty simple, I've done it for a long time.  
>> However with processors being realitivly cheap new users are buying 
>> the amd64 all the time and want to run a 64 bit os.  We either turn 
>> around and tell them, go to mozilla.org <http://mozilla.org/> grab 
>> the package and install it else were ( can't find fedora bugs ) or cp 
>> your fedora.repo add i386 through it, and overlap a hole lot of 
>> packages, "have fun with that"....
>>
>> I personally use one from mozilla.org <http://mozilla.org/> at the 
>> moment because I do need things like flash and plugins like that.  
>> Before you start whining telling me its closed source, my wife is a 
>> photorgrapher and her website has a lot of flash, I'm sure many of 
>> you can understand telling your wife no, can't go to your website 
>> because you used closed source flash would go over like a lead ballon 
>> ;)  And its not just here site, I go to a lot of places that have 
>> flash and so do a lot of people.
>
>
> Does open source solutions like Swfdec, Gnash and GPLFlash work for 
> you?. If anyone packages these up, it might be worth checking out.
>
gnash does not build on x86_64
swfdec has no plugin
gplflash keeps crashing firefox




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