Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2016 10:34:59 UTC+2 schrieb bo...@mozilla.com:
> On Thursday, 12 May 2016 21:36:53 UTC+1, Chris Peterson  wrote:
> > Yes. Flash and Silverlight both have 64-bit plugins that work in 64-bit 
> > Firefox. Streaming video services will likely move their Firefox users 
> > from Silverlight to Widevine this year, so Silverlight usage will 
> > decline by EOY.
> 
> As Flash Player doesn't provide Protected Mode for 64-bit, we've enabled our 
> own sandbox.
> Unfortunately this causes some regressions as the Flash DLL was never 
> designed to be sandboxed when run in process like this. We'd like to 
> strengthen the policy, but that breaks too many things.
> 
> So, we'd have to think carefully before deciding who we could move.
>  
> > On 5/12/16 1:10 PM, Ryan VanderMeulen wrote:
> > > Flash installs the 32-bit and 64-bit plugin versions side by side
> > > already (in System32 and SysWOW64, respectively), so I don't think
> > > that's an issue here.
> 
> Confusingly the 64-bit version lives in System32 and the 32-bit version in 
> SysWOW64.
> This is Microsoft's confusion not Adobe's.
> SysWOW64 generally contains files used for running 32-bit binaries on 64-bit 
> Windows (WOW64 is Windows [32-bit] On Windows 64[-bit])
> System32 is just a legacy naming hangover as I understand, because too many 
> application depended on it.

system   = 16-bit
System32 = 32-bit
SysWOW64 = 64-bit
(Or I have no clue where else the 64-bit-dlls get stored...)
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