Fedora Core 5 for AMD64 and Browser Plugins

Danny Ciarniello Dan_Ciarniello at telus.net
Tue Mar 28 17:39:52 UTC 2006


Rudolf Kastl wrote:

>2006/3/28, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org>:
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>>On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 01:52:30PM -0800, Danny Ciarniello wrote:
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>>>A thought just occured to me.  I am using a dual core Athlon 64.  I
>>>wonder if firefox is having some SMP problems?
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>>No, that bug occurs on single-core AMD64s, too.
>>I was suspecting a malfunctioning extension.
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>>It's good to learn the problem can be fixed by
>>reverting to 32-bit Firefox. The bug has driven me
>>to drink, and my wife to XP/OS X.
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>The bug in itsself are the non free browser plugins :). Reverting to
>32 bit browser is a workaround not a fix cause the plugins are non
>free and therefor one has to wait until some companys manage to build
>64 bit versions of their plugins (if ever.)
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>regards,
>Rudolf Kastl
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>p.s. i just drop crap like flash and am happily using a 64 bit only os
>with only free components... a 32 bit browser pulls in 32 bit libs
>which eats up extra ram...
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I figured the SMP thought was a shot in the dark and it was more likely 
to be 32-bit plugin issues.  As far as dropping non-free plugins is 
concerned, it all depends on the websites that one frequents and the 
experience that one wants from them.  For myself, it's not an option to 
be without flash, java or realplayer so I have opted for the 32-bit 
solution.  And going from an 800MHz PIII with 512 MiB of RAM to an 
Athlon 64 X2 4200+ with 1 GiB of RAM means that I don't really notice 
any issues with pulling in extra libs.  Hopefully macromedia, sun and 
real will soon get with it and provide 64-bit plugins.

Dan.




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