On 7/9/05, Phil Schaffner <P.R.Schaffner@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 14:47 -0500, Jonathan Berry wrote: > > On 7/9/05, Anand Buddhdev <arb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi fellow list users, > > > > > > I'm soon going to get an AMD64-based computer. I would like to use a > > > 64-bit linux distro on it, but I'm not yet sure if that is the best > > > thing to do. I am particularly concerned about firefox and plugins. I > > > believe that in order to use the binary plugins like flash and java, I > > > would have to use the i386 version of firefox, instead of the x86_64 > > > version. > > > > This is no problem. You can easily run the 32-bit version of Firefox > > instead of the 64-bit version. Plugins will work just fine. I've > > done this on several version of Fedora. > > Well, not quite no problem, but it works. Can't recall all the gory > details now, but it was a bit tricky getting rid of 32-bit Firefox and > Mozilla without breaking other things. IIRC, had to do some ugly stuff > with rpm --force to get rid of 64-bit browsers, leave required 64-bit > libs, and install 32-bit browsers to run 32-bit plugins such as > Acroread. Well, I've never had any problems with Firefox. A simple "yum remove firefox" usually does the trick (I think "rpm -e firefox" should do it too). I could see having more trouble with Mozilla because of all the pieces to it and all the libraries associated with it. That's why I just leave it and use 32-bit Firefox. That way I still have a 64-bit browser if I just want one :). I don't really think there is much speed improvement to be gained with a 64-bit web browser. Jonathan
