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Todd And Margo Chester <[log in to unmask]>
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Todd And Margo Chester <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:07:52 -0700
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On 03/15/2013 10:12 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> Evidently, from URL:
>
> http://nspluginwrapper.org/why.html
>
> nspluginwrapper is currently the only means to run a plugin in a browser
> of a different architecture. It is most commonly used to run a 32-bit
> plugin built for x86 in a 64-bit browser built for x86-64
>
> End quote
>
> and thus appears to address the issue I have raised in a different
> thread.  I have found:
>
> nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-1.el6_3.x86_64.rpm - A compatibility layer for
> Netscape 4 plugins
>
> Does anyone have experience with this adaptation layer compatibility
> insert?  If so, good, bad, and is it reliable?
>
> Yasha Karant
>

Hi Yasha,

The only thing I tried to use it for was acrobat reader.  Flash
and Java all have 64 bit plug ins.  I never got it to work right.

It is a mute point now that Firefox 19 has a build in PDF reader.
It wont do fill in forms, but you just download a copy and
run acroread.

-T

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