Hi Frank,

> Hi SL-folks,
> 
> well, it's a fairly old thread, but since I partially have the same 
> problem, I thought it's kind of better to revive it - hope that's ok 
> ...

I'd personally prefer Firefox 2.0.x for SL5 (or SL4) but have checked here and
there and can't really find anything relevant to that (I have checked CentOS
too but maybe I've just missed it?).

Plugins I use in Firefox 2 (on a Windows notebook) don't work with FF 1.5
which is why I want Firefox 2 for SL4/5.

Michael.

> Troy Dawson wrote:
> > Troy Dawson wrote:
> >> Troy Dawson wrote:
> >>> [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.
> >>>>
> >>>> cheers,
> >>>> Ronnie
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>> When it did the update, did it put in both the i386 and x86_64 
> >>> version?  Or just the i386 version?
> >>>
> >>> Troy
> >>
> >> I'm getting more reports of this.
> >> I'm still setting things up for a test, but as I do, is anyone having 
> >> problems with Adobe acroread 8?  or is it only acroread 7?
> >>
> >> Troy
> > 
> > OK, I can't get it to fail on me.
> > First question, for all of those who are having this problem.  Have you 
> > completely exited out of firefox and seamonkey?  I don't just mean one 
> > window, but all of firefox?
> > 
> > Second question, if the above answer was yes, can you send me 
> > information on how you setup your adobe plugin's?  Did you do it by 
> > hand?  Whet directory is the plugin in?  If it is a link, can you send 
> > me the full output of ls -l on the plugin.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Troy
> >
> 
> apparently the "java-plugin not working" problem wasn't really 
> discussed !? Anyone got a solution to that one ?? Or anyone else has 
> the same problem (I do) ??
> 
> I have firefox-1.5.0.12-0.8.i386 installed on SL4.5 x86_64 systems. 
> The javaplugin comes from java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.13, and works 
> otherwise: running firefox-1.5.0.12-0.3.i386 (or firefox2) on the 
> same machine allows to open java-applets (like eg 
>
http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.5.0/demos/plugin/applets/Clock/example1.html)
  without problems. javaws works as well, so the java-installation itself
seems to be ok.
> 
> With firefox-1.5.0.12-0.8.i386 however, it simply won't work (for me)
> . Java apparently complains about "Could not start JavaVM!" and the 
> java-console never shows up. I searched quite a bit, but most people 
> (quite a few) running into similar problems usually have a mixup of 
> 32- and 64-bit installations (I don't). Any suggestions appreciated !
> 
> Ciao, Frank.
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