Macromedia flashplayer and firefox

JN4OldSchool · #1 27th February 2006, 03:26 PM

Let me preface by saying I am having serious doubts about x86-64. Is this really worth the hassle at this point?

From this forum and other sources I am under the impression that the only way to get macromedia to work is to remove the 64 bit Firefox and install the 32 bit. OK, great. How do I do this though? Yum list and Yumex wont give me a 32 bit Firefox in any repos I have checked. I tried downloading the RPM from RPMbone but am now facing major dependancy issues. Is there an easy way out or do I have to bite the bullet here and try to compile all this lib... crap?

***bob*** · #2 27th February 2006, 03:35 PM

You can enable i386 repositories and download from there, but I think the easiest way to get the latest Firefox is simply to leave your old one sit there in /usr/bin and go directly to http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ and download, extract and run from /home (or maybe /usr/local). Just add your java and other symlinks to your new location, drag an link onto the desktop or taskbar and it's done! Been using it this way for a couple of months and no problems except that we're still dealing with 64bit mplayer codecs that don't show wmv video.

MountainMan101 · #3 27th February 2006, 08:04 PM

Flash runs fine as a 32bit plugin using the nspluginwrapper with 64bit Firefox.

64bit Fedora was hard with FC3 and 4 but I htink 5 will make it much nicer. As far as I can see the main ties to 32 bit (and their solutions) are :

OpenOffice (beta 64bit rpms are available for 2.0.2, 64bit openoffice is almost here)
Java plugin (I believe the 64bit java plugin is almost finished)
Flash plugin (Flash 8.5 will probably come as 64bit but until then nspluginwrapper works)
Win32 codecs (Gstreamer with good, bad and ugly plays most things; unless you have some particularly rarely used win32s or want Real streams it will work great in 64bit)
Real (Can be installed 32bit, the plugin if required works with nspluginwrapper)

So as far as I can see, the next few months will eliminate the need to keep 100's of 32bit rpms just because of the dependencies of a few programs.

paul matthijsse · #4 27th February 2006, 08:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JN4OldSchool

Let me preface by saying I am having serious doubts about x86-64. Is this really worth the hassle at this point?

No, it is not worth the hassle. I downgraded my 64-bit fc4 to 32-bit and I miss nothing at all. Now everything works, as opposed to my 64-bit desktop. This one for example, which I find very nice to watch: http://furpile.com/images/feuerfreimovie.swf

This whole 64-bit thing is (at least for now) mainly a marketing joke, in my very humble opinion.

Cheers, Paul.

Shakes · #5 27th February 2006, 08:45 PM

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/#introduction

stephanb · #6 28th February 2006, 09:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paul matthijsse

No, it is not worth the hassle. I downgraded my 64-bit fc4 to 32-bit and I miss nothing at all. Now everything works, as opposed to my 64-bit desktop. This one for example, which I find very nice to watch: http://furpile.com/images/feuerfreimovie.swf

Can watch this, 64-bit firefox and desktop, nspluginwrapper, i386 flashplayer plugin.

JN4OldSchool · #7 28th February 2006, 01:29 PM

Yeah, I agree with Paul. I am all for tinkering, but this just wasnt the box to do it on so I also downgraded back to 32 bit. I love FC4, at least in 32 bit version. It is rock stable, never any crashes, great with most any hardware I have ever threw at it, and all the complaints I keep hearing about WMV, MPEG, MP3...codecs are so easily overcome once you know where to get them. This was my young son's computer and needs to be solid and bullet proof, not the time or place to be trying new things. I will save X86-64 for my test box for now and when they eventually get all this stuff sorted I will gladly migrate all my other computers over.