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Kendor
Asked: 2012-04-03 07:20:42 +0800 CST

How do Install 32 Bit Firefox alongside 64 bit Firefox on 64 bit 11.10 machine?

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Need to run Webex Audio/Video. Am running the Sun version of Java, but apparently the Webex plugins will not work on 64 bit. Another member posted info on how to use 32 bit plugin, but I'd rather not muck with my good working install. I'd be OK with running a different browser ONLY when I need Webex. I am currently using Firefox 11 (64 bit) and Chromium 17.0 (64 bit).

Can anyone point me towards how I would install Firefox 32 alongside 64, or Chrome (32 bit) alongside Chromium (64 bit)... or some other 32-bit browser variant that would allonw Webex audio/video to work alongside my current setup..

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    Took a bunch of experimentation, but this DEFINITELY works for Webex audio and was pretty straight forward.

    http://blog.romera.org/2012/03/09/make-webex-work-in-ubuntu-11-10-64-bit/

    Nice thing about it is that you preserve everything in Firefox as is... Not sure if video works, but I will confirm that once I play a bit more.

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  2. To install a standalone 32 bit version of Firefox next to the default 64 bit system version of Firefox and have it use a standalone 32 bit Java plugin, check out the answer of Fholst to this other question.

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