On 11/9/07, Jos Vos <jos(a)xos.nl> wrote:
There is one important thing to consider: some third-party
(proprietary)
plugins for Firefox (like flashplayer and Acrobat reader) are only
available in 32-bit mode and for these you need to run 32-bit Firefox.
So, when running Firefox you also pull in several 32-bit libraries and
thus have usually 2 active copies of these libraries in memory.
nspluginwrapper allows you to run these plugins (at least flash) with
a 64 bit browser. Plus, it has the added benefit that the plugin will
run outside the browser process, thus, if it crashes it shouldn't take
the browser with it. Actually I don't know why isn't nspluginwrapper
used even on the x86 fedora, AFAICS there are only benefits on its
use.
Rui