On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:36:55 -0800 (PST) alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > According to a friend who has run tests, it will run about twice as fast > in 64-bit mode. Cool. It occurred to me earlier today that if I'm going to have to set this machine up from scratch again I might was well try it with the 64-bit setup and see what I get. It could indeed be worth the effort. > I do not have F8 on my laptop yet. With F7 I have issues with suspend. > Flash is a bit of an issue. (Adobe still does not have a 64-bit Flash > plug-in, but there are open source solutions that work on about 85% of > sites.) Some other minor issues, all web plug in related. Other than > that, it works great. I was just doing some reading about that and it appears that if you run 32-bit Firefox then none of those issues arise. I wonder if there is any benefit to running 64-bit Firefox anyway -- download speed seems to be more of a limiting factor than rendering speed for web browsing. My only other real concern is Adobe acroread, because I use that to create plates for offset presses and unfortunately none of the open-source PDF viewer programs seem to be up to the job (so far). I was just reading a write-up on Adobe's website that talks about this issue and it seems that acoread can also be made to run even though it's a 32-bit application. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
