32-bit plugins in 64-bit opera
Friday, 26. October 2007, 09:22:38
I see repeatedly comments that people run 32-bit plugins in 64-bit Opera by using the nspluginwrapper. This wrapper "enables you to use plugins on platforms they were not built for".
However in Opera, as opposed to other browsers, there is no need to go through the hassel of installing an extra plugin wrapper to do that - the operapluginwrapper handles it just fine!
The only issue is that you need to be using the 32-bit operapluginwrapper in a 64-bit Opera to run 32-bit plugins. Currently the only way to do so is to download a 32-bit Opera (I'd reccomend downloading a tarball), extract it, and replace the installed (64-bit) wrapper with the operapluginwrapper from the 32-bit package - and voilà, all 32-bit plugins should work out-of-the-box.
Currently this is manual work (sorry for that), but we are looking into having this handled at installation time - and have a way of seamlessly dealing with both 32-bit and 64-bit plugins (since you'll need the 64-bit wrapper for the 64-bit plugins…).
However in Opera, as opposed to other browsers, there is no need to go through the hassel of installing an extra plugin wrapper to do that - the operapluginwrapper handles it just fine!
The only issue is that you need to be using the 32-bit operapluginwrapper in a 64-bit Opera to run 32-bit plugins. Currently the only way to do so is to download a 32-bit Opera (I'd reccomend downloading a tarball), extract it, and replace the installed (64-bit) wrapper with the operapluginwrapper from the 32-bit package - and voilà, all 32-bit plugins should work out-of-the-box.
Currently this is manual work (sorry for that), but we are looking into having this handled at installation time - and have a way of seamlessly dealing with both 32-bit and 64-bit plugins (since you'll need the 64-bit wrapper for the 64-bit plugins…).
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