Is flashplayer incompatible with FC4 64bit?

[M. Brown]

Has anyone got it to work?

[codergeek42]

Macromedia's proprietary flash player plugin is only 32-bit, so it doesn't work with 64-bit systems unless you install a 32-bit browser as well.

[mha]

Does that mean uninstall 64bit firefox and install the 32bit version ?

Regards, mha

[Oetzi]

If you want a working flash plugin: yes.

[mha]

But there might be some dependancies!! and then lots of unnecessary software parts have to be updated every now and then ?
Is it possible to keep both versions ?

[thelinux]

you don't have to unintall firefox64. Just download firefox32 from getfirefox.com and install it under a directory you want like, /opt/firefox32

[yodog]

Macromedia's proprietary flash player plugin is only 32-bit, so it doesn't work with 64-bit systems unless you install a 32-bit browser as well.
Crapy Macromedia and their damned software! :mad:
Probably only after Windows Vista 64 spread out all over the world they will provide us some 64 bits support... :rolleyes:

[wesetters]

macromedia flash for 64 bit is now available.

edit: maybe not, just remembered i installed 32bit firefox 1.5 beta.

[gmoreno]

I have 32 macrinedia working in 64 bit firefox.

[wesetters]

I have 32 macrinedia working in 64 bit firefox.


how did you get that to work?

[epox123]

Yea how did you get it working i want to know :( or mabe can some one make a how to please...pretty please :p we will all thank you if you made one.

[perry753]

First, uninstall the 64 bit Firefox on your system. Then, install the 32 bit package, using yum if you want, and then install the plugin. It should work.

[epox123]

it should but you have inconpatiblities ;/ so you have to install tons of stuff but i was acualy wanting to know how that guy got it to work on 64 bit version

[wesetters]

use a tarred archive of firefox instead of the installer. use a symbolic link called firefox from /usr/bin/ to <install directory>/firefox. You don't get the dependencies trouble.

[jcliburn]

To get Java and Flash working in 32-bit Firefox under FC4 x86_64, see this Howto (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=81591) .