On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 00:59 +0100, John Lagrue wrote:
On 03/08/07, RavenOak ravenoak@gmail.com 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@gmail.com 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