Re: 64-bit Flash Player
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:36:11 -0800
Kenward Vaughan <kay_jay@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 16:44 +0200, Micha wrote:
> > On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:59:29 -0600
> > John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Debian-multimedia now has a native 64 bit flashplayer in Experimental. I
> > > haven't tried it yet so I don't know how well it works.
> >
> > I tried that one and it didn't work initially with nspluginwrapter
> > installed. I downloaded it directly now and installed and during
> > installation I found out that nspluginwrapter left some files behind. Now
> > that I've removed them it works fine. Don't know if the original
> > experimental version from multimedia.org works also (I just overwritten
> > that version with the downloaded one).
> >
> > by the way, nspluginwraper tends to be a very serious cpu hogger, don't
> > know if it's that or flash but we'll see in a bit
>
> There isn't a 64-bit acroreader plugin yet, is there? nspluginwrapper
> is needed for that as well... It is a renegade app on our systems,
> leaving ld-linux.so.2 hanging after any use, which then slowly chews up
> memory until the system grinds to a halt.
>
without the acroread plugin it should just open pdf files in an external
acrobat reader which is a preferably behaviour as far as I'm concerned so I
don't use it.
>
> Kenward
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