Angelo Machils wrote:
Hello!
I'm running FC3 x86-64 on a AMD 64 3000+ system, but I can't seem to
manage to install browser plugins under either Firefox (version 1.0)
or Mozilla. I do the manual install after the automatic fails. The
install goes okay, but after it I still don't have the plugin.
I'm trying the trail version of CrossOffice (for Quicktime) and
allthough the program standalong works, the plugin doesn't. I have the
plugin in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and copied them also to
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins.
I have done the /usr/sbin/prelink -ua tip I found on the internet for
FC3, but nothing seems to work.
What am I missing here. Installing plugins wasn't so difficult on my
FC2 (i386) system.
Thanks in advance, Angelo
Firefox for Linux x86_64 has a quirk. You can't install the 32-bit
versions of some plugins, most notably flash player, maybe others,
because flsh player is still for 32-bit Linux, I don't exaclty know why
it will not work on an x86_64 system, I think it is becuase of some of
the libraries requried by it that may not have all the required
components the plugin needs (maybe it is due to the intrinsic
differences in sizes of integers and the like).
