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

[blahquaker]

the script worked great. Thanks!

since we're comparing faxzero.com: it looks good in firefox64 and swiftweasel32 - it looks bad in iceweasel32.

[Kilz]

There will always be sites that look bad in one browser or another. IMHO its because the people who wrote the pages used bad html and some browsers are more forgiving.

[IronArjen]

Have you tried using the user agent switcher in Swiftweasel to tell it its running Firefox?

The agent switscher is set to default, default is

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070804 Swiftweasel/2.0.0.6.1

Then listed are IE, Netscape and Opera. I cannot find out how to add Firefox.

Tx

[Kilz]

Have you tried using the user agent switcher in Swiftweasel to tell it its running Firefox?

The agent switscher is set to default, default is

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070804 Swiftweasel/2.0.0.6.1

Then listed are IE, Netscape and Opera. I cannot find out how to add Firefox.

Tx

You can add new user agents. Look in Tools > User Agent Switcher > Options > Options . You can import and export them, Mine came with a Firefox user agent. Im attaching it here in a tarball so you can import it.

[f76]

hi! thanx for help. flock seems great.

I can see youtube videos, just no sound. I tried a manual install w the same results...

os: ubuntu 64 bit 7.04
tar: http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get...9_linux.tar.gz

browserinfo: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070718 Firefox/2.0.0.5 Flock/0.9.0.1

ls -al /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins
total 7016
drwxr-xr-x 2 tony tony 4096 2007-08-29 16:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 tony tony 4096 2007-08-29 16:37 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 tony tony 856 2007-06-20 02:31 flashplayer.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tony tony 7040036 2007-06-20 02:31 libflashplayer.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 tony tony 92448 2006-09-19 15:39 libnpp.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tony tony 19496 2006-09-10 04:41 libnullplugin.so

ls -al /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-04-15 13:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-04-15 13:58 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 2007-08-26 23:13 libtotem-basic-plugin.so -> ../../totem/libtotem-basic-plugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 2007-08-26 23:13 libtotem-basic-plugin.xpt -> ../../totem/libtotem-basic-plugin.xpt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 2007-08-26 23:13 libtotem-gmp-plugin.so -> ../../totem/libtotem-gmp-plugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 2007-08-26 23:13 libtotem-gmp-plugin.xpt -> ../../totem/libtotem-gmp-plugin.xpt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 2007-08-26 23:13 libtotem-mully-plugin.so -> ../../totem/libtotem-mully-plugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 2007-08-26 23:13 libtotem-mully-plugin.xpt -> ../../totem/libtotem-mully-plugin.xpt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 2007-08-26 23:13 libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so -> ../../totem/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 2007-08-26 23:13 libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.xpt -> ../../totem/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.xpt

What can I do do make sound work?

[Jimcanoa]

Appearance
Some themes may look bad, especially for users running KDE. This deb may help. After installing you will need to restart the browser. Also please realize, Firefox32 is created, built, and maintained by a user, not a developer. The whole purpose of Firefox32 is to make plugins work, not to make it blend into the system. That may be beyond my ability. Minor differences in the appearance of Firefox 32 vs the 64bit browser the developers completely integrated are to be expected.
If you would like to complain, please direct your complaints to the Ubuntu developers who refuse to offer a 32bit browser to 64bit users and expect 64bit users to use a browser without plugins.

I was wondering if there has been any progress in that direction. Firefox32 is working beautifully in my box: kubuntu feisty amd64. The only complaint I have so far is the appearance... I was wondering if changing:

$  cat /usr/local/bin/firefox32
  #!/bin/sh

  export GTK_PATH=/usr/lib32/gtk-2.0
  export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0
  export GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE=/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders.32
  killall esd
  linux32 /usr/local/firefox32/firefox $@

I've tried exporting GTK_PATH to /usr/lib32/kde3 but with no change.

Installing the deb didn't help.

In any case 1000 thanks to the poster of this guide and all the contributors and developers out there.

[IronArjen]

Kilz,

I managed to get the Agent Switcher uploaded with Firefox. Sofar I have not tried whether I can install Adobe properly since I run into other items.

Links from my mail open Firefox, no problem and you ve even wrote a way around that but................it renders the thing a bit unstable. I have had it several times that both my firefox and swiftweasel crashed (after the Agent switch!). Hence I will uninstall the swiftweasel, although I really liked the block manager. Another thing, maybe even worse. Swiftweasel made me remind of Windoooooooze (Sorry), While opening a letś say 20 Mb page (whihc I actually do like ten times a day) I like to do do other things. Firefox in Ubuntu never lets'you down. Swiftweasel does, it simply no longer responds on other pages while loading a large page.

But for the rest the usual compliments to script and especially follow-up

Tx

[Kilz]

hi! thanx for help. flock seems great.

I can see youtube videos, just no sound. I tried a manual install w the same results...

os: ubuntu 64 bit 7.04
tar: http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get...9_linux.tar.gz

browserinfo: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070718 Firefox/2.0.0.5 Flock/0.9.0.1

ls -al /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins
total 7016
drwxr-xr-x 2 tony tony 4096 2007-08-29 16:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 tony tony 4096 2007-08-29 16:37 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 tony tony 856 2007-06-20 02:31 flashplayer.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tony tony 7040036 2007-06-20 02:31 libflashplayer.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 tony tony 92448 2006-09-19 15:39 libnpp.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tony tony 19496 2006-09-10 04:41 libnullplugin.so

ls -al /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-04-15 13:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-04-15 13:58 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 2007-08-26 23:13 libtotem-basic-plugin.so -> ../../totem/libtotem-basic-plugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 2007-08-26 23:13 libtotem-basic-plugin.xpt -> ../../totem/libtotem-basic-plugin.xpt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 2007-08-26 23:13 libtotem-gmp-plugin.so -> ../../totem/libtotem-gmp-plugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 2007-08-26 23:13 libtotem-gmp-plugin.xpt -> ../../totem/libtotem-gmp-plugin.xpt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 2007-08-26 23:13 libtotem-mully-plugin.so -> ../../totem/libtotem-mully-plugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 2007-08-26 23:13 libtotem-mully-plugin.xpt -> ../../totem/libtotem-mully-plugin.xpt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 2007-08-26 23:13 libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so -> ../../totem/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 2007-08-26 23:13 libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.xpt -> ../../totem/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.xpt

What can I do do make sound work?

Do you have sound in other applications? If you do what steps have you tried to get sound working?

[Kilz]

I was wondering if there has been any progress in that direction. Firefox32 is working beautifully in my box: kubuntu feisty amd64. The only complaint I have so far is the appearance... I was wondering if changing:

$  cat /usr/local/bin/firefox32
  #!/bin/sh

  export GTK_PATH=/usr/lib32/gtk-2.0
  export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0
  export GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE=/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders.32
  killall esd
  linux32 /usr/local/firefox32/firefox $@

I've tried exporting GTK_PATH to /usr/lib32/kde3 but with no change.

Installing the deb didn't help.

In any case 1000 thanks to the poster of this guide and all the contributors and developers out there.

In case the section you posted on appearance isnt quite clear. Other than the package linked in that section there is not much that I can do.

[ipina]

Hi Kilz how are you? I'd like to ask you something not exactly related to your scripts. Ok, I'm trying to install your script but I'm getting errors which are concerned with the package libc6. In order to install pdfedit, I needed libc6 2.6 - which is not an official pack of Ubuntu - Now, if I wish to install your script I need libc6 2.5 - an official pack of Ubuntu - but, as you probably guess, I can't install it since a later version is present on my system (Ubuntu Feisty) Do you know any way to have installed the two versions of libc6? Best regards.