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