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duko

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Registered: 2007-09-03

Posts: 5

Freezing firefox (bon echo) with 32bit flash plugin

Hello all,

  I've installed on my arch64 the 32bit flash plugin for firefox according to arch wiki pages. It works in a sense it does not crash. Nevertheless, it freezes for several seconds whenever opening a web page with flash animation.

  If firefox started from terminal, it reports errors about libraries - like found that and that library, which should be 32bit, but it is 64bit and vice versa.

  Can I somehow solve the problem by setting up LD_LIBRARY_PATH or other environment variable just for the firefox?

  Thanks

    Dusan

Janax

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From: Iowa

Registered: 2007-05-21

Posts: 86

Re: Freezing firefox (bon echo) with 32bit flash plugin

If you want a full 32-bit-based browser that will work with the flash and java plugins natively, see bin32-swiftfox-prescott or bin32-swiftfox-athlon64 for the Core2 or Athlon64 processors, respectively.  If you want java, then search for the 'lib32-jdk' package.  You'll have to link the java plugin yourself:

# ln -s /opt/java32/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /opt/swiftfox/plugins/

I originally created these packages because I need "Java WebStart" for work, and it only comes in the 32-bit JRE/JDK.  It all works very well for me!

Good luck!