[ale] Java for 64bit Firefox

[James Taylor]

All you have to do is install the 32-bit compatibility package and make sure you install the 32-bit version of firefox/seamonkey/thunderbird and java.  Then you can use the the 32-bit java plugin.

That's the way I have all my 64-bit SUSE installs set up.  It works like a charm.  The only problem I've had is that if the 64-bit version is already installed, selecting the 32-bit rpm in YAST doesn't change the architecture.  You have to uninstall, then reinstall the packages.
 
-jt


James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
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>>> On Tue, Jan 1, 2008 at  5:17 PM, in message <477ABC06.4080408 at mindspring.com>,
Dow Hurst <Dow.Hurst at mindspring.com> wrote: 
> 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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