Closed Bug 581839 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

64-bit Firefox can't open 32-bit plugins

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 559142

People

(Reporter: andrejohn.mas, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:2.0b1) Gecko/20100628 Firefox/4.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:2.0b1) Gecko/20100628 Firefox/4.0b1

The issue is that if I run 64-bit Firefox 4.0b1 then certain plugins, such as Flash, which are 32-bit will not load.

With the OOPP approach it may be useful to include support for allowing 32-bit plugins to run in a 32-bit sub-process when its 64-bit equivalent is not available. I imagine this would be possible with this new architecture?

I am not sure whether we should treat this as a feature request or a bug, so I will let the developers decide. In many ways it is a feature request, but the behaviour may appear as a bug to many general users.

Reproducible: Always
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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