Software and Applications

[Transco901]

This is bullshit...

[Daedra]

This is also my number 1 gripe with 64 bit right now, I know you can run 32 bit browser and you can do emulation in Linux, but I think that enough time has gone by for them to at least have a beta.

[Stalker_Loner]

I stopped running IE7 x64 already since even FiringSquad warned me about all content not displaying properly on a 64-bit browser. Go figure.

[meorah]

What browser wants to use more than 2GB of memory?

I'm gonna go with a big fat zero.

Use 32-bit IE7, it will run faster than 64-bit IE7 anyway.

[Transco901]

^ yea that's the plan for now.

[darkportal_4]

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Transco901 wrote:
This is bullshit...

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Under linux, I was able to modify the 32-bit flash player installer to install to a 64-bit copy of Firefox. Of course, under linux flash player's installer is a shell script, so it was as simple as looking for the section of code that checks the OS and patching the line of code that says "64 bit? no!"

tom

[Transco901]

^ thanks for the tip.  Even if there was a similar approach that could be take in Windows, I am probably going to just stick with the 32-bit browser for the moment.

[darkportal_4]

I fail to see why it's so difficult to simply recompile existing source code into 64-bit binaries...

[Stalker_Loner]

It's not, it's just too easy for large corporations to waste time on. Not that they are doing anything better with their time.

[indigo196]

I do not like Adobe... so running their crapware in 32bit or 64bit is not my thing.

[meorah]

silverlight will control the market sooner rather than later if adobe keeps up the slacking.

[gregorov_14]

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darkportal_4 wrote:
I fail to see why it's so difficult to simply recompile existing source code into 64-bit binaries...

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My guess is that there aren't a whole lot of 64-bit compilers out there, and they're trying to work on that or something. That or IE7 really is quite a bit different in Vista than XP, and they can't do a straight re-compile. However for some apps, I do see why it wouldn't be drastically difficult just to recompile though.

[Transco901]

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darkportal_4 wrote:
I fail to see why it's so difficult to simply recompile existing source code into 64-bit binaries...

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I dont' care about difficulty, I'm not rebuilding some source just so that I can use a freaking plugin.  I am just surprised there's no 64-bit version yet.  Til then, I'll actually use both the 64-bit (default) and 32-bit browswer (when I would like the Flash player/plugin).