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by limsup 4225 days ago
Can someone explain why this wasn't done long ago? What are the difficulties of putting out a 64 bit build?
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I know for a long time there was an issue with Flash not supporting 64 bit browsers (and a browser without flash was hard to sell)
I don't think this is a real issue? (64-bit firefox supported 32-bit flash, at least on Linux).
That can't possibly be the issue. Plugins like Flash run in a separate process, which can remain 32-bit if required to do so by the plugin while the browser itself goes 64-bit.
Possibly all the Webrtc stack ?