IIRC Google dropped support of 32bit versions for both maintenance reasons
and security reasons - IIRC one of the reasons was they felt they could
offer more effective protection against various memory attacks in a 64bit
executable, but the primary reason was to reduce the number of builds that
had to be supported and tested.

Apparently usage of the 32bit builds had dropped to the point where they no
longer considered it worthwhile to continue.

Chromium is unaffected, because it can still be built from source, but
pepper flash is, because Adobe only provides builds of it for platforms on
which Chrome is supported.

As a side note, attempting to use an outdated version would be an extremely
bad idea, Flash seems to have a new remote hole every other hour, so, you;d
just be giving every website you visit a backdoor into your computer.



On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 5:33 PM richard lucassen <mailinglists@???>
wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 14:51:46 -0500
> Nate Bargmann <n0nb@???> wrote:
>
> > > $ uname -a
> > > Linux netbook1 4.6.0-0.bpo.1-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.6.3-1~bpo8+1
> > > (2016-07-13) i686 GNU/Linux
> > >
> > > Hmmm, why not a 32 bit version? But indeed, that's the problem...
> >
> > Isn't Pepper Flash a part of Chromium/Chrome? I seem to recall that
> > 32 bit support was dropped from Chrome and likely Pepper Flash as
> > well.
>
> Weird, I read it. There are AFAIK many computers out there still running
> a 32 bit OS, just because the hardware has less than 4G of RAM. I use
> the plugin with Opera. Opera's new version, which was 64bit-only until
> a few months ago, now has 32 bit support.
>
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