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The 64-bit browser and 32-bit plugins dilemma …

by on Oct.08, 2005, under Linux, Software

Although 64 bit OSs and hence browsers are (almost) commonplace these days, the same thing cannot be said of their plugin counterparts. To this date there are no 64bit Java and Flash plugins .. rendering a huge proportion of pages on the net inaccessible from a 64 bit browser ..

As of this moment, the popular solution to this problem is to have two browsers. A primary browser (e.g. 64 bit FireFox) and a seconday browser + plugins (32 bit). Opera seems to be a popular choice as the secondary browser since it’s quite easy to get installed and use…

nspluginwrapper is another option. It allows the loading of 32bit plugins on a 64bit browser.

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GPLFlash 2

by on Aug.19, 2005, under Linux, Software


Ok .. built and installed GPLFlash .. at least Firefox thinks it’s installed. Time to give it a try: well .. seems like StarTrek.com still won’t work .. guess it won’t settle for anything less than Flash 6 🙁

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GPLFlash

by on Aug.19, 2005, under Linux, Software

Ever since I installed FC4 64-bit, plugins have been a constant pain is the a**. I remembered seeing a reference to GPLFlash some time back .. so I went and grabbed the source tarball .. unfortunately it requires too many *-devel packages and I can’t afford the disk space. So, rpm.pbone.net to the rescue. I managed to find a x86_64 rpm for SuSE 9.3 – so I’m gonna give that a go. Seems like it needs libresmgr which is not in any of the FC repos I use. So, I also needed to borrow that from SuSE.

It’s now that I fully appreciate the new localinstall option of yum. Point to to a local rpm and it sorts out dependencies from the actives repos .. just too cool..

Ok .. this isn’t going anywhere .. the dependencies are too SuSE centric .. guess I’ll just have to get the *-devel packages and make do with the source tarball..

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