[K12OSN] Re: acrobat reader plugin crashing firefox x86_64

[Peter Hartmann]

Installing the redhat firefox version fixed it.  Thanks anyway!

On 9/29/05, Peter Hartmann <ascensiontech at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey All,
> I had posted something about this before but I think maybe now I have
> more specific questions that with your help may get answered.   I'm
> running centos x86_64. I know there aren't 64 bit plugins yet so I did
> "yum remove firefox" and "yum install firefox.i386".
> BUT, the Acrobat reader plugin makes the browser *poof* out.  By
> running "firefox -profilemanager" in a terminal I get more info on the
> problem.
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>   firefox -profilemanager
> UA: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.7.10)
> Gecko/20050910 CentOS/1.0.6-1.4.2.centos4.k12ltsp.4.2.1EL
> Firefox/1.0.6:, extra:  Firefox/1.0.6
> /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.6/run-mozilla.sh: line 159: 11088 Segmentation
> fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
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> Notice that the UA (I learned that's user agent) is incorrect.  When I
> look at that line in run-mozilla.sh I've found that it's supposed to
> quit if $MOZ_PROGRAM (which is mozilla-bin) is not executable.  Well
> as it turns out the only  mozilla-bin on my system is in
> /usr/lib64/mozilla-1.7.10.   #1 Why is that still there if I removed
> the 64bit firefox? #2  Why  don't I have a mozilla-bin in
> /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.10 since I installed firefox.i386?  #3 How would
> you go about fixing this?
>
> Thanks a bunch!
> Peter
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> On 9/7/05, Peter Hartmann <ascensiontech at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey All.
> > My acrobat reader plugin crashes firefox but works ok standalone.  Any
> > ideas? I'm using Centos4 x86_64 but with firefox.i386.
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> > Thanks,
> > Peter
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