[ale] Java for 64bit Firefox

[Grady Harris]

I did the 32-bit on 64 previously, on Ubuntu, but with the current
release, I haven't had the need--most everything has worked. When I
hit a web page that incorporated Java applets, or whatever, the
Ubuntu-fied Firefox took me through an installation of the icedtea
package.

Of course, the next time I started up a program written in Java, paths
were not found, & nothing happened, apart from bitter error messages.
Used the update-alternatives --config  thang, made sure that the
browser used icedtea, everything else used Sun. So far, so good.
Haven't used SuSE for several years, so I don't know what an
equivalent process would be.

On Jan 2, 2008 8:48 AM, James P. Kinney III
<jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> Welcome to my world!
>
> It is possible to run a 32-bit firefox on a 64-bit systems. It's what I
> use by default and install for school servers. It is, however, quite
> tricky.
>
> I can't speak to Suse-based distro's as my exposure in this matter is
> RedHat based. The 64-bit RedHat-derived distros include 32-bit
> compatibility. So there are two version of firefox, 32 and 64-bit. In
> order to use the 32-bit, it is required to remove the 64-bit.
>
> I have found that the 32-bit mplayer (and plugin) works perfectly in
> this setup. I have not found a video file I can't access.
>
> In order to truly use java in the browser, this is the only reliable
> methodology. nswrapper is pretty good for running flash but fails often
> for java applets.
>
> Note: I do not use KDE or Konquerer.
>
>
> On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 15:39 -0500, 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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