Re: [gentoo-amd64] firefox-bin crashing a few times every day

["Drake Donahue" <donahue95@comcast.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] firefox-bin crashing a few times every day


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Java:
Well worth reading and doing as they tell you:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/java-upgrade.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/java.xml
A major key point the second  reference makes, which can be confirmed at the 
Sun web site, -- There is no java plugin for 64 bit mozilla browsers. 
Unfortunately nspluginwrapper cannot handle java 32 bit plugins.
So--
You can run the Konqueror browser which does not need a plugin but uses the 
java virtual machine directly.
You can use mozilla-firefox-bin with emul-linux-x86-java as the java plugin.

Konqueror worked on your analyze site some months ago; being a gnome I have 
not retried more recently.
I did emerge mozilla-firefox-bin followed by emerging emul-linux-x86-java. 
Automagically firefox-bin picked up helix(real player), flash, and java 
plugins. The first two plugins were on board from the actions described 
earlier which used nspluginwrapper to install them in 64 bit firefox. 
Firefox-bin displays jsp pages at www.prophet.net very well.

Were I in your shoes I would do the updating, probably including kernel, 
unmerge browsers and plugins, do the java references above, emerge 
firefox-bin,  emul-linux-x86-java, realplayer, netscape-flash. Check 
operation of firefox-bin. If flash failed to load up or fails to work, 
unmerge it, and use the direct download and manual install method discussed 
on the download site.



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