[ale] Java for 64bit Firefox

[Dow Hurst]

I've decided to just reinstall 32bit.  Much simpler for now on a user's
workstation.

If anyone wants to comment on their solution for Java browser plugins in
a 64bit environment, I'd still love to hear your solution.
Thanks,
Dow


Dow Hurst wrote:
> Java on 64bit Firefox doesn't work, isn't available, and so on.  So....
>
> I've loaded up OpenSuSE 10.3 on a Core2Duo machine using the 64bit
> installation.  I've attempted to move the Firefox environment and all
> packages that have the needed plugins to 32bit.  However, I found even
> though I could install MPlayer as 32bit, when I tried to enable MP3
> support in Xine so Amarok could play MP3 format, I got dependency
> problems.  Diving deeper I found that there doesn't seem to be a way to
> install Xine 32bit without moving KDE to 32bit, or at least a whole
> bunch of it.  Yast2 started timing out on trying to solve dependency
> issues at that point!!!
>
> So, going back to Firefox, the whole issue revolves back to only having
> the 32bit Java plugin.  If that was solved then all the other stuff
> could stay 64bit.
>
> My question then:  Is it possible to have a 64bit Firefox somehow start
> up Java by another method such as a helper application?  I don't
> understand how the Java plugin actually plugs into Firefox, but isn't
> there another way to deal with this issue?  Am I reduced to using
> multiple browsers?  Can Konqueror as 64bit run the 32bit Java to do Java
> and Javascript stuff?  How do people deal with this that use a 64bit
> environment?
>
> If possible, please don't complain about Sun not getting the port of the
> Java plugin to 64bit done as that is an obvious given.  I'm hoping there
> is a practical usable solution to the problem with what I have available
> to me.  I did look at nspluginwrapper but that does not support the Java
> plugin.
>
> Thanks so much for you time and have a Happy New Year!
> Dow
>
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