Tirsdag den 26. Februar 2008 17:17:22 skrev Alberto Passalacqua:
well: having firefox 32 bit, you'll just get all the multimedia users
on you, complaining that the 64bit vlc plugin, or mplayer plugin, or XYZ plugin is not working anymore... I don't think that's a good tradeoff...
There are valid alternatives, like totem-browser-plugin, which offers a better integration than mplayer. Moreover all these users didn't tell a word about that when the discussion was opened months ago.
Does 64-bit totem plugin work with 32-bit firefox? Another alternative might be the Firefox extension MediaPlayerConnectivity which allows you to select different players per format, regardless of architechture.. However my preferred solution to the problem is simply to steer people towards using 32-bit openSUSE altogether. By communicating that 64-bit is for: - powerusers who like to look for a little trouble - free software zealots (as almost all the problems are related to non-free software) - servers All users of the "it should just work"-kind should just use 32-bit. I even think the dual arch DVD9 should default to 32-bit installation on 64-bit hardware - so we don't have n00bs running 64-bit without even knowing it, and wondering why they can't get their homebank to work with Firefox. There's a reason why people don't get 64-bit MS Windows with their boxes. Dunno why they must insist on running 64-bit openSUSE, when running 32-bit MS Windows doesn't seem to bother them any. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org