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2008/11/19 Michael Moore <mikem.unet@×××××.com>: |
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> On 20:19 Tue 18 Nov , Beso wrote: |
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>> firefox-bin is worse than firefox on an amd64 system. so, if you think |
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>> that a bin version would be faster than a non bin version you're quite |
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>> wrong. |
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> Apologies guys if i didn't make it clear. I wanted to remove firefox. |
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> The -bin version i was talking of, was the xulrunner-bin package. And, |
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> by the way i agree that the bin version is really worse-off than |
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> firefox. |
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>> opera for what i know on amd64 is compiled for 64bit and not |
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>> for 32 bit and so the plugins you're using with also need to be amd64 |
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>> compiled. |
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> If you disable the "ia32" use flag. Unless ofcourse, if you are talking |
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> of no-multilib profile. IIRC 64-bit support was made available for opera |
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> sometime in the past few months (somewhere along the 9.x series). |
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this is the reason why i've said that having a 64bit plugin is necessary. |
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>> said this i suggest you to use mplayerplug-in instead of |
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>> gecko-mediaplayer. since it's produced by the same devs of mplayer and |
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>> you won't have api problems with it. another reason for you to use |
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>> mplayerplug-in is that it works with latest xulrunner and firefox |
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>> codebase (it's not limited to second version of firefox) and you can |
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>> use either the latest xulrunner, seamonkey or firefox (still |
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>> maintained by mozilla). on multilib systems it also automatically |
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>> builds the 32bit and 64bit packages depending on mplayer and |
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>> mplayer-bin. |
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>> also xulrunner is a direct dependency for firefox and if a package |
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>> tells you that you can build that package on xulrunner then you don't |
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>> really need firefox. |
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>> -- |
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>> dott. ing. beso |
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> I would love to use mplayerplug-in, only i wish it worked well for me. |
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> I would be glad if somebody could please suggest the process to get |
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> mplayerplug-in working with opera. My issues have been that i dont get |
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> the control buttons working and that is after i have employed a few |
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> hooks to enable the plugin. FWIW the erstwhile gentoo-wiki page (i dont |
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> the current status) on opera also suggested to use gecko-mediaplayer. |
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last time i've tried out opera and mplayerplug-in i didn't have any |
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problems, if not with wma files that are still not supported on linux. |
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dott. ing. beso |
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