Malcolm Candlish wrote:
Sirs,
While getting Fedora Core 5 x86 I believe I can work with all browser
plugins. However, if I get the AMD64 version which is compatable with
my PC, I understand that it is necessary to do a work around.
Can anyone direct me to instructions for this or explain.
With thanks in advance,
Malcolm Candlish.
You can use nspluginwrapper to use 32-bit plugins with firefox.x86_64.
http://www.gibix.net/dokuwiki/en:projects:nspluginwrapper
I would suggest installing all your plugins first and then installing
nspluginwrapper as nspluginwrapper will automatically register all
installed plugins when nspluginwrapper is itself installed. I ran into
some problems trying to register new plugins after the fact.
Having said that, I would suggest forgoing firefox.x86_64 altogether. I
had random but frequent lockups with firefox.x86_64 which made firefox
pretty much unusable. Even worse, firefox would often not exit cleanly
when I quit, leaving a process running in the background. I would only
find out that had happened when trying to launch a new instance
whereupon I would get a message box popup informing me that firefox was
already running.
I have since switched to firefox.i386 and have been problem-free ever since.
A thought just occured to me. I am using a dual core Athlon 64. I
wonder if firefox is having some SMP problems?
Dan.
