Hi Christopher, On Nov 19, 2007 9:51 PM, Christopher A. Williams <fedoralists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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. Yes, there is nspluginwrapper, and I've used it successfully with F7, but for some reason it did not work for me (YMMV) with F8 (see my OP -- Flash did not work, and neither did mplayer plugin, and I even posted the output of mozilla-plugin-config). This forced me to forget firefox-64. It sucks big time, but... =/ Regards, Andre
