[NBLUG/talk] swiftweasel vs iceweasel

[Troy Arnold]

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 09:30:17AM -0700, Sean wrote:
> I came across swiftweasel by accident... I had forgotten that I had
> installed this in the past. Before I go on, please know that I'm
> running Debian Etch AMD64.
> 
> The interesting thing here is that according to my research AMD64
> flash and java just don't seem to work at their full abilities
> (usually flash doesn't work at all). Well, with Swiftweasel flash
> works just fine.
> 
> If Swiftweasel can get 64-bit flash to work, why not Iceweasel? Is it
> just a tough nut to crack?

Flash works pretty well here in firefox beta5 on my shiny new AMD64 system.
It uses the 32bit Adobe flashplayer using the /lib32 hackage.  Looking
online, it's supposed to work the same way in Etch.

You might see if flash works in a clean profile.

-t