On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 00:06 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:00:42 -0400
> "Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> 
> > > I played with it for a bit, but left wifi for last. I was so pleased that 
> > > I was able to get Firefox-64 1.5 with RealPlayer and Flash, and Adobe 
> > > Reader 7.0 all running without needing the 32-bit chroot that I had to 
> > > use with Breezy
> 
> > --How can that be?  Isn't flashplayer offered as a 32-bit plugin in
> > binary only?  Since when can the 64-bit Firefox invoke 32-bit plugins? 
> > This must be a welcome change!  So we do not need the 32-bit Firefox at all?
> 
> Not any more. Dapper-64 comes with the 32-bit libraries, and they have
> fixed things so that you can install 32-bit apps that don't have a
> 64-bit binary by using force-architecture. The Ubuntu forums have lots
> of discussion of it. 

Err.. This is just a description of multilib.  I believe the comment
refers to running a 32bit plugin within a 64bit firefox.  The enabling
technology for that is::
  http://www.gibix.net/dokuwiki/en:projects:nspluginwrapper

Note: I'm not an Ubuntu user but google tells me Dapper shipped with
nspluginwrapper.

-Toshio

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