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Linux now an equal Flash player (Linux-Watch)

Posted Oct 16, 2008 17:01 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Linux now an equal Flash player (Linux-Watch) by Ed_L.
Parent article: Linux now an equal Flash player (Linux-Watch)

No need for hacking; the nsplugwrapper package lets 32-bit x86 plugins run inside x86_64 Firefox executables. Adobe's Flash depends on other 32-bit packages; this is no problem on Fedora or RHEL, where 32-bit and 64-bit packages can coexist, but it can be a problem on other platforms.

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Posted Oct 18, 2008 7:31 UTC (Sat) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

But the really cool part about ndiswrapper is it makes flash even more unreliable than it is when run natively. Which is really an impressive feat.

Linux now an equal Flash player (Linux-Watch)

Posted Oct 20, 2008 10:31 UTC (Mon) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

IME Flash is equally unreliable on both my i386 and amd64 system. On the amd64 system, however, Flash will stop working and be replaced by a grey box until I restart my browser. On the i386 system, it crashes, taking out my browser too.

Why is Flash so unreliable!