On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:48:51 +0800, Cocoy Dayao wrote:

> So the family computer at home is my old amd64 running gentoo. mostly  
> people in the house use it to just check their mail, browse youtube  
> and play online flash games. i have firefox-bin and firefox 64  
> installed. it's been running that for years on end. now all of a  
> sudden, firefox-bin couldn't connect to the internet but firefox 64  
> and conqueror can. ping, traceroute from the same machine works. i've  
> check the network settings on -bin, and its configured to point direct  
> to the internet as it should be. no proxy in this house. so i'm pretty  
> sure network is good.

First guess, -bin is using IPv6, check about:config

> Also, is there someway to install flash to run with firefox 64? i've  
> used google and the wiki says the 32-bit firefox is still the only one  
> running for AMD64.

Install nspluginwrapper, which makes 32 bit plugins work with a 64 bit
browser.


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Neil Bothwick

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