nsplugin wrapper can be used to install Macromedia flash into a 64-bit ebuild of firefox. This is mentioned in http://gentoo-wiki.com/Adobe_Flash/AMD64 and works for me, but is not mentioned in this documentation page. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Load the page http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-amd64-faq.xml 2. Read it. Actual Results: I read "Yes. To get Flash working, you need a 32bit browser like mozilla-firefox-bin or opera because Macromedia doesn't provide a 64bit version. After emerging the -bin package of your favorite browser, install Flash by doing emerge netscape-flash." Expected Results: It should have told me about both possibilities (or more if there are any).
The package swfdec-mozilla[1] seems to be another possibility (it is marked as testing in amd64). @amd64: ¿are all these options known to work? Thanks. [1] http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/wiki/
Well, we don't recommend ~arch packages in our docs, but since there is a stable version of nspluginwrapper, I can mention it in that FAQ.
Fixed in CVS. I can confirm that nspluginwrapper works with Flash and 64-bit browsers; I've been using it for years now. swfdec-mozilla isn't really an option, since 1) it's ~arch, and 2) it's nowhere near as feature-complete as the actual Flash binary. Users would be losing functionality.
