On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 00:59 +0100, John Lagrue wrote: > 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 > Hi I seem to have got the BBC working OK F7, 64 bit Firefox It really was running 64 bit version !!!!!! Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; Some of this is from notes to myself!!!!!!!!!!! Use RealPlayer (nphelix) + nspluginwrapper for BBC weather - remember the extra compat-libstdc++-33 Details of config pagham ~ 997# uname -a Linux pagham 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 #1 SMP Wed May 23 22:47:07 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux pagham ~ 998# rpm -qa|grep -i firefox firefox-devel-2.0.0.3-4.fc7.i386 firefox-2.0.0.3-4.fc7.i386 firefox-devel-2.0.0.3-4.fc7.x86_64 firefox-2.0.0.3-4.fc7.x86_64 ######################################### pagham plugins 1001# pwd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins pagham plugins 1002# ls libflashplayer.so nphelix.so nphelix.xpt nppdf.so ############ pagham plugins 1004# pwd /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins pagham plugins 1005# ls libvlcplugin.so mplayerplug-in.so npwrapper.nppdf.so mplayerplug-in-dvx.so mplayerplug-in-wmp.so npwrapper.so mplayerplug-in-qt.so npwrapper.libflashplayer.so mplayerplug-in-rm.so npwrapper.nphelix.so ############ My current status ########################### Multimedia Summary Use vlc + mozilla-vlc x86-64 for seasprite sports streaming Use RealPlayer (nphelix) + nspluginwrapper for BBC weather - remember the extra compat-libstdc++-33 Acroread + nspluginwrapper if required Flash + nspluginwrapper mplayer + mplayerplug-in are x86-64 Give up on 64 bit Java plugins at present !! Hope this is some use !! John
