Howto Install 32 bit Firefox with Flash w/sound and Java for AMD64

[dangel]

About the streaming audio:

You were right. There only some problem with some stations but this seems to be program specific (of the website's server).

About Acrobat Reader:

I'll try the manual ans get back to you.

Flash player doesn't worth either. Tried to see bwin live soccer matches and realized that there was no plugin.

Thanks

[dangel]

I've followed the manual how-to and restarted Firefox32.

Adobe Reader worked like a charm!

Flash player too!

They only weird is that now when I open a station from the site www.e-radio.gr I here the audio but when the window looses focus the sound stops and when it gets focus back it plays!

[Chymera]

hmmmm.... i tried the script .... and... flash still isnt working

[Kilz]

hmmmm.... i tried the script .... and... flash still isnt working

Click help then about Firefox, near the bottom of the little window that opens is some info that starts with "Mozilla/5.0" copy that section and paste it into a post please.
Also please tell me exactly what steps you have done to see if flash was installed.

[Chymera]

neah, it worked, but i didnt realise there was a 2nd icon in the internet menu anyway, how do i remove the other firefox? the one which doesnt supportz the plugins, and how do i set my current ff as the default browser?

[Kilz]

neah, it worked, but i didnt realise there was a 2nd icon in the internet menu anyway, how do i remove the other firefox? the one which doesnt supportz the plugins, and how do i set my current ff as the default browser?

Take a look at the bottom of the howto.

[s_spiff]

hey Kliz, thought I'll inform you of the new flock thats released. It looks amazing, atleast on widnows. Wonder how it'll be on ubu.

[Kilz]

hey Kliz, thought I'll inform you of the new flock thats released. It looks amazing, atleast on widnows. Wonder how it'll be on ubu.

Thanks

[cacycleworks]

Hi - just found this thread and did the install. I chose Swiftweasel and the install went without a hitch.

I tried running the swiftweasel32 link on my desktop and I got the "browser already running, please close it and try again" or some such. But I recognized this right away: I use multiple profiles with FF (in this case FF64) so that I can simultaneously read multiple gmail accounts... Once profiles are evoked, any instance of firefox needs to be evoked with a known profile. I assume that the fresh install of 32 bit FF was unable to "see" the default profile. Initially, I thought this was because I had FF64 running with the default profile... I closed all 3 profiles of FF64 and retried the new swiftweasel ff32 install and got the same problem.

So I opened a terminal and ran firefox -profilemanager and added a profile to the same firefox directory as the default and other profiles called swiftweasel.

Then I right-clicked to edit the .desktop launcher to start up with the command:
swiftweasel32 -P swiftweasel -no-remote

I'm on Fiesty kubuntu with latest updates ...
13:34 chris@outside:~ $ uname -a
Linux outside 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 19:00:28 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux



Hey youtube works now: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cqsrq34qDyk

[cyb3rj]

Everything appeared to be going well right up until I tried to install mplayer.

Would you like to install the Mplayer Multimedia plugin?
Install option (Yes=1 No=2)? : 1
--06:27:06--  http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/m/mplayerplug-in/mozilla-mplayer_3.31-1_i386.deb
           => `mozilla-mplayer_3.31-1_i386.deb'
Resolving mirrors.kernel.org... 204.152.191.39, 204.152.191.7
Connecting to mirrors.kernel.org|204.152.191.39|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 479,124 (468K) [text/plain]

100%[=====================================================>] 479,124      379.36K/s

06:27:07 (378.14 KB/s) - `mozilla-mplayer_3.31-1_i386.deb' saved [479124/479124]

--06:27:07--  http://www.people.virginia.edu/~drf8f/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20060501.tar.bz2
           => `essential-20060501.tar.bz2'
Resolving www.people.virginia.edu... 128.143.22.98
Connecting to www.people.virginia.edu|128.143.22.98|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 307 Temporary Redirect
Location: http://people.virginia.edu/~drf8f/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20060501.tar.bz2 [following]
--06:27:08--  http://people.virginia.edu/~drf8f/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20060501.tar.bz2
           => `essential-20060501.tar.bz2'
Resolving people.virginia.edu... 128.143.22.36
Connecting to people.virginia.edu|128.143.22.36|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 9,511,636 (9.1M) [application/octet-stream]
essential-20060501.tar.bz2: Permission denied

Cannot write to `essential-20060501.tar.bz2' (Permission denied).
tar: essential-20060501.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
cp: cannot stat `essential-20060501/*': No such file or directory
Install is complete, please close all browsers before starting the 32bit browser.

update: I was able to complete the install without mplayer.