Fedora 5 x86_64 Firefox & plugins.

[J. K. Cliburn]

On 5/1/06, Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 15:42 -0400, "Malcolm Candlish" wrote:
> > Having loaded Fedora 5 X86_64 all is well, but for Firefox w
> > hich is so slow as to be unusable. Konqueror on the other ha
> > nd goes like lightening.
> >
> > Furthermore, having loaded 'nspluginwrapper' the 32 bit plug
> > ins simply will not respond and when I tried to add a plugin
> > with the command nspluginwrapper -i the return given was 'T
> > his is a directory'. I did install by rpm both nspluginwrapp
> > er-0.9.90-1x86_64.rpm and -i386-0.9.90-1.x86_64.rpm. Is ther
> > e something that I am missing here.
>
> I believe what a lot of x86_64 users end up doing is removing
> the 64-bit firefox and installing the 32-bit version.
>
> You have to manually create a repo file that points to i386
> base and i386 update. You then run
>
> yum remove firefox
> yum install firefox.i386
>
> or something like that - and it will pull in 32-bit firefox
> with al the 32-bit dependencies.

What Michael describes is what I do.  A how-to is here:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=102143