[Leaplist] adobe flash for Ubuntu

[Derek Konigsberg]

On Saturday 27 September 2008 10:29:33 am Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> > That makes more sense. But he did state that, "Ubuntu users
> > need to wrap the 32-bit flash in ndiswrapper so that it
> > could work a 64-bit version of Ubuntu". That sentence
> > confused me as, like you said,
>
> Then he's never done it.  There is a Netscape/Firefox plug-in
> wrapper that allegedly allows x86 plug-ins to execute under
> x86-64.  I've tried it several times now, and always had
> crashes.

Last I checked, that wrapper did work for Flash, but was unstable.  However, 
it didn't work for the Java plug-in.  The reason was interesting, too.  You 
see, the wrapper was designed to work for plugins built to an ancient Mozilla 
plug-in API.  Meanwhile, Sun's Java plug-in is built to a more modern Mozilla 
plug-in API.

I also fnd it interesting that Sun (last I checked) has no x86-64 (or sparc64) 
browser plugin for Java, since they've had 64-bit versions of Java itself for 
a very long time now.

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