How many FireFox 64bit users are there?

[Justin Conover]

On 1/15/06, dragoran <dragoran at feuerpokemon.de> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> --


Same except I haven't looked at gnash, I saw it in a message to here but
didn't look at the e-mail.
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