Mozilla firefox and AMD64

fourblades · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 10

I want to use Mozilla Firefox on my Athlon 64 computer running in 64-bit mode. So how to make that browser can run both flash player and java applets at the same time? Which package should I use?

makton3g · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Aug 2004 Posts: 88

to my understanding, and from what I have been reading, you really cannot have a full 64bit firefox and run Flash, since flash is still 32bit. I think people are grabbing the firefix binary 32bit, so to have flash.

Someone correct me if I am wrong please.

BoW · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 4:48 pm Post subject:

Haven't tested myself yet but found these threads...

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-219128-highlight-gplflash.html
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-314841-highlight-gplflash.html
and others...
did a quicksearch for gplflash

magnesium · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 12:33 am Post subject:

If it helps I've got firefox compiled in 64bit mode and cannot get flash or java to work on it. I am told that other people have gotten it to work but I have invested far too much time with no success so I've just given up.

I tried swfdec and gplflash to get flash working. both failed for me but note that if you want to try getting gplflash to work you will need to modify the ebuild to work with firefox. do a search and read about it.

I've tried blackdown-jre and sun's 64bit version of java jre, but neither work for me.

Note that flash and java content cause the browser to quit (all instances) when you have a plugin installed. it's very frustrating when you get to a webpage with a flash ad in it, so I suggest all people who have flash crash issues go to the firefox extensions and download flashblock. This blocks flash content from automatically displaying, and allows you to click on the flash content to test if it works.
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hvengel · Guru Joined: 19 Sep 2004 Posts: 515

I don't care about flash my self but I do have Java working and it is running just great. I didn't have any problems all I had to set up the JAVA_HOME and then configure the plug-in. Only took me a few minutes to get it working. I do have glpflash installed but I don't go to any sites where it might be needed so I can't report if it works or not. But then who cares?

The latest masked beta versions of mplayer work OK in 64 bit and I have found that the mozilla mplayer plug-in works but is masked. So I have mplayer working fairly well from firefox. It will do everything but QuickTime and QuickTimeVR. And there is no 64 bit version of RealPlayer so this can not be used as a plug-in.

magnesium · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 8:09 am Post subject:

the new version of mplayer will play wmv media?

What version of java jre did you install and where did you set the JAVA_HOME ? Is that an environment variable? Where did you set it to?
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fourblades · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 10

Phew!
If I install 32-bit firefox binary i can get my flash working but not java.
If I compile the 64-bit firefox, I can't get flash to work but java works.
Can I really just install BOTH versions at the same time?
Thinking of installing the official 32-bit Linux JRE from java, would that practical?

radonsg · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 12:04 pm Post subject:

which version of java did u install? Blackdown or sun? which version?
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fourblades · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 10

I currenly use dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01-r2
for mozilla firefox, it is www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.2
for flash, i use net-www/netscape-flash-7.0.25

pwe · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 10:19 pm Post subject:

im use ff-bin + netscape flash but java is dead :/
im don't know why, everything is OK (compilation), zero errors :/

im alone ?
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hvengel · Guru Joined: 19 Sep 2004 Posts: 515

I have blackdown java. Yes JAVA_HOME is a global environment variable. I set this up a while ago so I don't remember exactly what I had to do to make the Java plug-in work. But I do remember that once I set the JAVA_HOME variable up it was very easy and I think I used the plug-in install info from the Mozilla web site to figure it out.

Yes the latest versions of mplayer (masked) will play wmv files along with mpeg and avi.