F8: Mozilla plugins (flash and mplayer) don't work

[Paul Johnson]

On Nov 15, 2007 11:46 AM, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:36:48 -0200
> André Costa <blueser at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My problem now is Mozilla plugins:
>
> Do all of your plugins show up under about:plugins ?
>
> On this x86_64 machine I had to create symbolic links from the files
> in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ to ~/.mozilla/plugins before they would show up.
>
> I just tried watching a trailer on apple.com and it worked.
>
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> MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
>
>
I got fed up wrestling with this and removed firefox-x86_64.  The i386
version works with the plugins, no trouble, plus I got Java support.

What benefit flows from using the x86_64 firefox?




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