Firefox and Flash on x86_64

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Perhaps you, proud owner of a 64bit processor, running nice linux distributions, have noticed that there is no support for Flash files on your distribution-coming Firefox.

The problem is known at Macromedia and the fact is that there is no installer for Flash player on 64bit processors.

I have run Firefox without Flash for too much tima. NOW i want to see those eye candy clips...

There is the solution, and is quite simple... we must download Firefox 32bit, download the flash installer for linux and then proceed with a 32bit tailored binary.

First download Firefox from Mozilla web site. The download should consist of a tar.gz file containing the binaries of Firefox. Unpack the file in your home directory

or whatever is the filename.

Then go to Macromedia site and download the Flash Installer. It comes also in a tar.gz file. Save it to your home dir and unpack it by typing:

In the created directory there is a file called libflashplayer.so. Copy the file to the plugins directory of the unpacked firefox dir:

Well that's done.... but.... if you run the new firefox by typing

you will notice that no fonts are displayed in flash files... (at least in my fedora core 5...) what a problem!

The fact is that flash player searches the fonts in a wrong path. We can correct this by typing:

Now Flash player shows the fonts!! Nice!!