On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Troy Dawson wrote:
> SL 4.x
>
>  x86_64:
> firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.el4.i386.rpm
> firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.el4.x86_64.rpm
>
Hi,

The above update to firefox.i386 on the x86_64 
architecture has broken the acrobat and java plugins.
(using acroread 7.0.9 and Sun Java 6u3)

Clicking on a PDF file causes firefox to exit immediately
and launching webpages that require a java plugin no longer works.

If I revert to firefox-1.5.0.12-0.3.el4.i386 everything works as expected.

The reason we're using the i386 version on an x86_64 arch is
to get the various plugins working that have no x86_64 equivalent.

I can get around the PDF issue by not using the plugin and just
loading the file externally in xpdf/acroread but we need
the java plugin to work too.

cheers,
Ronnie
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