On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 17:11 -0200, André Costa wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On Nov 19, 2007 4:14 PM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Nov 15, 2007 11:46 AM, Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:36:48 -0200 > > > André Costa <blueser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > My problem now is Mozilla plugins: > > > > > > Do all of your plugins show up under about:plugins ? > > > > > > On this x86_64 machine I had to create symbolic links from the files > > > in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ to ~/.mozilla/plugins before they would show up. > > > > > > I just tried watching a trailer on apple.com and it worked. > > > > > > -- > > > MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com > > > > > > > > I got fed up wrestling with this and removed firefox-x86_64. The i386 > > version works with the plugins, no trouble, plus I got Java support. > > > > What benefit flows from using the x86_64 firefox? > > This is pretty much what I've done, too. Damn Adobe and Sun for not > providing 64bit versions of their plugins (Java also doesn't work with > firefox-64), and Apple for not providing QuickTime at all. > > The main difference is that I kept x86_64 version around so that I > don't need to remove yelp (which depends on it). This is only possible > if you install firefox-32, which provides a convenient way of starting > the 32bit version (you will need to modify gnome-panel's applet > accordingly, and also preferred browser setting). It doesn't seem to be very well advertised, but there is a simple way to get 64-bit Firefox and 32-bit plugins - including Adobe and Flash - to run together. You need to configure nspluginwrapper, which is included by default. Specifically, do the following: Install 32-bit plugins as normal run the command mozilla-plugin-config -i -g -v After doing this, I have both Flash and Adobe running quite nicely with F8 x86_64 on my laptop, as well as a few other things. By the way, you can find this info in the F8 release notes under section 10.3.1 Enabling the Flash Plugin. ...but who actually reads this stuff? :) I know I didn't and struggled for days as a result. Cheers, Chris -- ==================================================== In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. --Yogi Berra
