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Re: 64bit vs 32bit on a 64bit System



On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:46:53 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> On Mi, 09 feb 11, 14:35:18, Camaleón wrote:
>> 
>> >> - flash had some security issues for a while, workaround was to use
>> >> the
>> >>   32bit version with ugly hacks
>> 
>> Yep, but not true anymore :-)
>> 
>> There is Flash Square plugin, pure 64-bits and without any (known)
>> flaw.
> 
> Sure, but that incident told us that Adobe is not so quick to fix flaws
> in the 64bit version and there is no indication that they will be faster
> in the future.

He, Adobe _is never_ quick when it comes to supply patches for their 
products, but that's not exclusive to their 64-bits product branches but 
also for any other of their linux, windows and macos 32-bits packages 
(i.e., Acrobat Reader). Think it as kind of Adobe's "common" policy.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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