On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 05:51 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 23:20 -0400, David Johnston wrote:
On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 19:37 +0200, Kai wrote:
I have some problems installing java support to my browser (firefox). This support I installed with no problem when running the 32 bit version on the same machine, but now I can't find the plugin.
I'll second the suggestion to run the 32-bit browser. What do we gain by using a 64-bit version of Firefox? So many of the plugins won't work with it & aren't available in 64bit.
If there's no gain, would it not make sense to stop building the 64-bit version and default to the 32-bit version?
Maybe ... but we build it like the upstream provider. They release firefox only as an x86_64 version for el4 ... therefore so do we.
So should we file reports in Red Hat's bugzilla or lobby you to make an exception in this case? ;-)
The current system (64-bit browser) breaks things and requires manual intervention to get things working. If you stop building Firefox for 64-bit architectures, yum will fall back to the 32-bit versions which work, meaning that no manual intervention will be required.
-David