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    32-Bit Firefox on 64-bit Kubuntu [SOLVED]

    I recently installed the 64-bit version of 9.10 on a machine and am currently getting the extras installed. I have had previous bad experiences with firefox and the Adobe Flash player in the 64-bit version and have read that the problem still exists because Adobe won't build a 64-bit version of the Flash player. I read that the problem can be mitigated by installing the 32-bit version of firefox. My question is how do I go about getting and installing that version when all the software tools are pointing to the 64-bit S/W versions in the repositories? Then once I get the right version of firefox installed, do I need to manually download and install the flash player too?

    Thanks for the help.
    Bill Lugg
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    Re: 32-Bit Firefox on 64-bit Kubuntu

    Open Synaptic and do a search on "flash".
    You will find the flashplayer installer and the flashplayer app. When you install it it will pull down the appropriate app from the Adobe website.

    I am running the 64bit Kubuntu 9.10 and flashplayer works fine for me.

    Sometimes, after an update to firefox I have to reinstall those two apps to restore YouTube, CNN and other sites that use flashplayer.



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      Re: 32-Bit Firefox on 64-bit Kubuntu

      I find that using the 32 bit flash player with the nswrapper plugin causes flash to crash after a while (you basically have to close your browser and restart it to get flash back.)

      I'm running the 64 bit flash player alpha that adobe released in June which is generally more stable, but with some flash browser applications it'll take down firefox.

      I'm looking forward to the day flash goes away forever...
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        Re: 32-Bit Firefox on 64-bit Kubuntu

        I'm looking forward to the day flash goes away forever...
        Truth is, gnash works fine. The problem is getting firefox to lie about what plugin it's using. Until there is a way to make it tell websites like YouTube that it's using what they want, when it really isn't, we will be choking on flash forever.
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          Re: 32-Bit Firefox on 64-bit Kubuntu

          Adobe has a 64-bit flash player that's worked just fine for me.

          http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/f...r10/64bit.html

          All you've gotta do is extract libflashplayer.so and drop it in /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins
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            Re: 32-Bit Firefox on 64-bit Kubuntu

            You're right, wizard10000, I forgot that I have Medibuntu repositories installed and used them
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              Re: 32-Bit Firefox on 64-bit Kubuntu

              Originally posted by GreyGeek
              You're right, wizard10000, I forgot that I have Medibuntu repositories installed and used them
              Yeah, the one in medibuntu repos is the 32-bit version. I just removed flashplugin-installer and flashplugin-nonfree, dropped Adobe's 64-bit version in the proper directory and it just worked. So far it's been good.
              we see things not as they are, but as we are.
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                Re: 32-Bit Firefox on 64-bit Kubuntu

                Well, all seems to work. I ended up just installing through the System Settings|Add and Remove Software applet. It turns out that there is already an Adobe 10 Flash plugin package in the repository. I figured I'd try and see what happens and sure enough it works just fine.

                Now if I could just get my Soundblaster Audigy 2 to work. :P

                Thanks for the help.
                Bill Lugg
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