On 5/1/06, Michael A. Peters <mpeters@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 15:42 -0400, "Malcolm Candlish" wrote: > Having loaded Fedora 5 X86_64 all is well, but for Firefox w > hich is so slow as to be unusable. Konqueror on the other ha > nd goes like lightening. > > Furthermore, having loaded 'nspluginwrapper' the 32 bit plug > ins simply will not respond and when I tried to add a plugin > with the command nspluginwrapper -i the return given was 'T > his is a directory'. I did install by rpm both nspluginwrapp > er-0.9.90-1x86_64.rpm and -i386-0.9.90-1.x86_64.rpm. Is ther > e something that I am missing here. I believe what a lot of x86_64 users end up doing is removing the 64-bit firefox and installing the 32-bit version. You have to manually create a repo file that points to i386 base and i386 update. You then run yum remove firefox yum install firefox.i386 or something like that - and it will pull in 32-bit firefox with al the 32-bit dependencies.
What Michael describes is what I do. A how-to is here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=102143
