[PLUG] Firefox 3.5 x86_64 amd - which java? (2)

Keith Lofstrom keithl at kl-ic.com
Thu Jul 2 06:16:47 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 07:38:38PM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> Anybody running firefox 3.5 x86_64 on amd, with java?
> 
> 
> I'm running 2.6.18-8.1.6.el5 x86_64 on an AMD box. 
> I just installed Firefox 3.5:
> 
>    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64);
>    en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5
...

I found the problem.  One would think that means x86_64 version...
no, the only Linux version of Firefox is 32 bits.  I found this
out because the firefox 3.5 that was automagically provided for
download works on a different system that is 32 bits.  

So given 32 bit firefox, I installed 32 bit java and 32 bit flash. 
All that processing power wasted ... sigh.

And while I can download source and compile 64 bit firefox, that
will probably break a lot of the plugins.

Keith

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