Re: browsers on AMD 64
Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Giovanni Turi (giovanni.turi@iit.cnr.it) wrote:
>> The 64 bit version of the mozilla-firefox browser runs ok. However
>> "fundamental" plugins like the shockwave flash work only on 32 bit mode.
>
> Hardly 'fundamental'. Get a 64bit plugin or get the source and compile
> one. :)
>
>> Somewhere on the internet I read to install the 32 bit version of the
>> browser, and run it with the linux32 wrapper. In this way it should be
>> also possible to install plugins for flash and surf advanced sites.
>
> Thankfully I don't ever run into any of these 'advanced' sites. What
> you really want is multiarch, but it's a way's off yet. An alternative
> would be to install 32bit Debian into a chroot and use that or get a
> 32bit statically-compiled version of mozilla-firefox.
See also dchroot for easy use of a chroot.
>> Is that the correct way? Does anybody know other workarounds?
>
> I don't know if you'd actually need linux32 if you got a statically
> compiled version, which you'd need unless you set up a chroot.
>
> Stephen
You only need linux32 if the software checks the uname, e.g. to
dynamicaly load cpu optimized plugins or something. Someone on the
Linuxtag mentioned oracle, vmware and uml doing that.
MfG
Goswin
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