Re: flash player for firefox
I have sent a complaint about a missing plugin.
well the site does not respond any longer.
Erik
On Son, 2005-02-27 at 14:42 -0500, Peter Nelson wrote:
> Erik Norman wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >I have tried several times (using the "install missing plugins" feauture
> >of mozilla-firefox) to install flashplayer, no way.
> >It does not work.
> >
> >Any hint?
> >
> >
> There is no flash player for amd64. From
> http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/macromedia/faq.html:
>
> *10. Where is Flash for PowerPC or x86-64 Linux?*
>
> It does not exist probably because Macromedia management feel there
> is no demand. Contact Macromedia
> <http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/contact/> and express your
> opinion if you truly care about this. Also buy more x86-64 hardware
> (AMD64, not the crap Intel stuff) to make the platform truly
> lucrative for software makers in a business sense.
>
> There is libflash-swfplayer, an open-source one, but it's very, very buggy.
>
> -Peter Nelson
>
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