sparrish Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 Hi, I'm running Mandriva 2007 x86_64, and am having some serious plugin issues with Firefox 2.0. I'm using the mdv rpm of Firefox, and I can't seem to load a single plugin aside from the default ones that are in Fx. No flash, no java, etc. To make things a bit weirder, Sun hasn't released a 64-bit version of JRE with a browser plugin, so they ask that you use the 32-bit version. I'm cool with that, but the plugin will not load. I've symlinked it into every mozilla plugins directory I can find (I've done quite a bit of Fx plugin wrangling in the past, so I know the dozen or so places they can conceivably go), but nothing seems to work. I deleted pluginreg.dat, no help there either. Is this a know issue, or am I just missing something. Thanks in advance for any help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 There is no x86_64 flash plugin, I'm sure of this, and as you already know there is no version of java for 64-bit either. You're going to find that there is a lot of software out there that is not supported under x86_64. At this time, the general recommendation if you want full functionality is to stick with the regular i586 (32-bit) builds - at least until more plugins and software are built for x86_64, and the stability of these applications is increased. This is pretty much the standard for every OS, except Mac's OS X. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparrish Posted April 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 Thanks for the help! Do you mean going with a 32-bit Firefox build, or a 32-bit distro altogether? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 Thanks for the help! Do you mean going with a 32-bit Firefox build, or a 32-bit distro altogether?32-bit distro all together. You may find that the 32-bit firefox build isn't stable on x86_64 - but maybe it will run fine, you're welcome to try it. I have a 64-bit system, but I still run 32-bit OS's on it, just because - overall - they are more stable at this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparrish Posted April 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 Thanks again for the help. I did manage to come up with another solution. nspluginwrapper seems to be working quite nicely, and will let you run 32-bit plugins on a 64-bit firefox build. Flash 9 is working now on mine, and I'm getting Java set up now. more info... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 Java does exist for 64bit OSes (Linux, Solaris, Windows), see: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp From my experience, installing 32bit applications (Firefox) on the 64bit mandriva, althouth possible, leads to a nightmare in handling dependencies. This experience was on an unstable PC, however... Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparrish Posted April 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 The problem with the 64-bit JRE from Sun is that it doesn't come with a browser plugin. The amd64 blackdown JRE comes with a plugin, but I'm finding that it has some major stability issues. Browser crashes shortly after an applet is loaded, so that's no good. Could be any number of things causing that, but in my case, it's not particularly useful. When I feel like a project, I may try installing the 32-bit JRE from Sun and loading the plugin through nspluginwrapper. Anyone tried this yet? Flash works great through nspluginwrapper, except that I can't seem to get sound through it. Haven't taken the time to try to fix that yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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