[Cialug] 64 bit difficulties?

[Brandon Griffis]

I'm not sure what plugins the two of you are using, but I've not yet had any
issue with firefox plugins in either vista 64 or SimplyMepis64 (both running
firefox in 64 bit).

I run several of the more common plugins:

Adblock plus
DownThemAll
FirefoxGoogleBookmarks
FlashBlock
Firecastfox enhanced
gmail manager
gspace
noScript
Open download
session manager
Video Downloader.

All work fine.

On 7/27/07, Nathan Stien <nathanism at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/27/07, Dave J. Hala Jr. <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
> > Running the 64 bit version and downloading and installing 32 bit plugins
> > doesn't work. To make it work, you'll need to  change the  firefox
> > configuration file so that it runs in 32 bit mode in order to get stuff
> > like mplayer and flash to work.  After discovering this, I installed the
> > 32 bit version and everything just works. So, while you can make the 64
> > bit version work, its much easier to just install the 32 bit version.
>
> I run 64-bit Kubuntu Feisty on a couple AMD64 machines.  I use
> nspluginwrapper [1] to run flashplayer in my 64-bit Firefox and
> Konqueror.  (Oddly enough, I use Konqueror more and more because it
> loads much faster and has some neat features built in.  One still
> needs Firefox, though, since fancy things like Gmail don't quite work
> right yet.)
>
> [1]: http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper/
>
> As for setting up nspluginwrapper, you can find debs out there, or use
> alien to convert the supplied rpm's.  At the time I was setting this
> up, I just used alien, but I bet there are some apt repositories now.
>
> It seems to work pretty well, but sometimes flashplayer gets hung at
> 100% CPU usage, leaving a grey box in my browser.  When that happens,
> I have to kill the process manually, and then [sometimes] restart the
> browser.  Since Konqueror can close out and reload very quickly
> compared to Firefox, I tend to prefer it for my youtubes and such.
>
> If your 64-bit distro offers a painless 32-bit Firefox setup, it might
> be less of a hassle than nspluginwrapper.  Given my recent love of
> Konqueror, though, I would probably have to run an entirely 32-bit KDE
> environment in order to have a 32-bit Konqueror, and that would just
> beg the question of running *anything* in 64-bit.  (True rationale: I
> paid for those wide registers, I'm gonna use 'em, dagnabbit!)
>
> In my non-existent free time, I would love to see if there's something
> within nspluginwrapper that could be done to fix this hang issue.
> Alas.   While we're adding to the wishlist, it would be dang nifty if
> Debian really supported multiarch...
>
> Otherwise, I have had no real 64-bit issues.  I have nvidia graphics
> on each machine, and I just run the evil closed 64-bit binary drivers
> from nvidia.  Works like a charm.  Wine doesn't do 64-bit yet, but I
> can run kvm/qemu with full hardware virtualization, and it's
> sufficiently speedy for my Microsofty needs.  And Wine never works
> anyway.
>
> Oh, while I'm at it: for kvm to work right, I had to put hpet=disable
> in my /boot/grub/menu.lst, because something about kvm goes freaky
> cuckoo bananas if you use HPET timing, which was default in my Kubuntu
> on my hardware.  Could be made default by rebuilding my kernel, but
> m'eh.
>
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