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

[antisa]

Thanks Kilz for the How-to. I was so happy when I saw my e banking java applet initializing correctly. Though it didn't work at first because I had to do what asta in his post did (post #1591) - link the javaplugin correctly.

Thank once again!

[antisa]

Thanks Kilz for the How-to. I was so happy when I saw my e banking java applet initializing correctly. Though it didn't work at first because I had to do what asta in his post did (post #1591) - link the javaplugin correctly.

Thank once again!

EDIT: Sorry for the double post.

[Kilz]

Thank once again!

EDIT: Sorry for the double post.

Glad this old post could help.

Double posts happen, I have had my share over the years.

[junnuh]

Hello and warm thanks to you!

One question will I ask, are you going to continue the exellent script also to Ubuntu 8.10 amd64? 32bit swiftweasel needeed! )))

You have done excellent work!

with light!

junnuh

[shanek]

One question will I ask, are you going to continue the exellent script also to Ubuntu 8.10 amd64? 32bit swiftweasel needeed! )))

I used this script to install Firefox in Kubuntu 8.10, and it worked just fine for the most part. Firefox was installed, but the flash plugin is out of date. I already had the 32-bit java plugin installed, so I didn't bother with that either.

For the latest Flash plugin, you can get it here. I just got the tar.gz version, untarred it, and copied the libflashplayer.so file to /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins/

[junnuh]

Thank you shanek!

Swiftweasel is now installed!!!)

I had also 32-bit java plugin installed, now I just have to install the new path to get it work! And I know how to do it!))

Thank you for good and quick reply! It's wonderful how you allways get help from this forum!

with light from junnuh

[fooballz]

Hey, I have used your script to sucessfully install firefox 32 bit on my 64 bit system.

However, despite choosing to install all the plugin options, when I open 32 bit firefox, it doesn't appear to have any of the java plugins.

Could this be because I already have java plugins being used for my 64 bit browser?

How can I fix this?

Thanks

[junnuh]

Hey, I have used your script to sucessfully install firefox 32 bit on my 64 bit system.

However, despite choosing to install all the plugin options, when I open 32 bit firefox, it doesn't appear to have any of the java plugins.

Could this be because I already have java plugins being used for my 64 bit browser?

How can I fix this?

Thanks

HI!

It would help if you spesify a little bit your question!!

Are you using Hardy 8.04.1? Or which version of ubuntu are you using?

What java-plugin are you using in 64bit browser?

You can look if the sun java plugin is installed by typing

about:plugins

in the address bar of your browser

Check also from synaptic that you have packages: sun-java6-jre and ia32-sun-java6-bin checked (installed)!

From Kilz's first post you can find lot of information and also a good "How to get help?" section!!

It's easier to get help by spesifying the problem!!

with ligth!! junnuh

[jru]

I have a problem launching firefox32-3 from the command line ... But somehow it works from the launch panel (that executes the command firefox32-3 %u ).
I am using Hardy 8.04, ff32_3in1_6294

Here I am just typing the commands found in /usr/local/bin/firefox32-3 in the bourne shell:
> which firefox32-3
/usr/local/bin/firefox32-3
> /bin/sh
$ export GTK_PATH=/usr/lib32/gtk-2.0
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0
$ export GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE=/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders.32
$ killall esd
esd: no process killed
$ linux32 /usr/local/firefox32-3/firefox $@
$
(crashreporter:7148 : Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_set_sensitive: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

Firefox32 crashes often and if I click the launcher when firefox32 is already running (rather than "new window") things get really slow.

[fooballz]

Yeah, I'm using Hardy 8.04.1. In the 64 bit browser I'm using the IcedTea extension, as SunJava doesn't work for that.

I've checked the "aboutlugin" for the 32 bit browser and that's how I know that there's no java plugin installed in it.

As for the "synaptic packages: sun-java6-jre and ia32-sun-java6-bin" I'm not sure how to check that...I have sun java6 installed, but as for the plugin, it won't let me install it. What exactly is "ia32-sun-java6-bin" ? Is that usually already in synaptic or do I have to install the source for that somewhere. If so where?

Thanks