On 03/08/07, RavenOak <ravenoak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 19:32 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 00:24:30 +0100 > > "John Lagrue" <jlagrue@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > I've even resorted to installing firefox-32. And it made sod-all difference. > > > > Merely installing the 32 bit version doesn't actually make it > > run the 32 bit version - the "firefox" shell script always > > runs the 64 bit version if it finds it on the system. > > > > There is supposed to be some kind of magic environment variable > > you can set to force it to run 32 bit, but I take a different > > approach - I edit the /usr/bin/firefox script and change all > > "lib64" strings in it to "wubba-wubba-wubba", then it can't > > find the "wubba-wubba-wubba" version, so it is willing to > > run the 32 bit version instead :-). > > > > The package "firefox-32" installs a command called "firefox-32" and it > does invoke 32bit firefox, unless for some strange reason Adobe has > gotten flash to work with 64bit firefox...'cause I can see flash on my > 64bit workstation. > I don't have a problem with Flash. nspluginwrapper works a treat. I just can't get ***ing video working from the BBC site. JDL
