Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Hi,
Simon Roberts wrote:
Sigh, groan,
Well, having persuaded my system to run 32bit flash under the 64bit firefox, I now have another problem, and I think I have to have the 32bit firefox after all.
I need to run Java in my browser...
I've tried using nspluginwrapper, and it rejects all the plugin .so files that I thought might be contenders (I downloaded a 32bit jre separately from my regular 64bit one)
Soooo... two questions:
1) How do folks run Java in firefox on a 64bit linux system?
2) Assuming I have to have a 32bit Firefox, where the heck do I get it, as all my attempts so far have been preempted, and I've always ended up with a 64bit version somehow?
[[ and 3) I hardly dare ask for fear of either looking stupid (too late!) or starting a religious war, but how much performance benefit do I really get from running 64bit? Does anyone have any representative metrics? I'm not interested in "well, obviously this, and that" because in my experience "obvious" factors affect performance in very non-obvious ways. But I'll take a serious gut feeling from anyone who has tried both on the same hardware in the absence of actual measurements.]]
This site has hints for different approaches to solve that:
http://en.opensuse.org/Java/How_To_use_Java_with_Firefox_on_64-bit_openSuSE_...
And as explained in some other replies it's possible (but not easy or intuitive) to install the 32bit version with YaST.
I just download Mozilla's installer, and install to /opt, and just maintain it completely outside of YaST. In over 4 years, I haven't had a problem yet. I originally started doing that because Mozilla updates weren't propagating into Yast Online Update very quickly (if at all). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org