On Oct 23, 2007, at 12:08 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> 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.
>


Ronnie,

   Not a solution to your actual problem but:

   http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper/

   allows you to run 32bit plugins in a 64 bit firefox.

    Steve

> cheers,
> Ronnie
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>         Name: Dr Ronnie Wallace
>         Institution: University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
>         Department: Mathematics
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