Howto make firefox work in Ubuntu AMD64 with flash and java

One of the biggest problem i had when i first installed Kubuntu 7.10 64-bit is that i couldn't run firefox with the java and flash plugins. The problem is that Adobe has no 64-bit version of flash and Sun java plugins dont work ether. There is a solution and it is to install a 32-bit firefox and the 32-bit plugins will work. So how do you do that you may ask. There is a thread on the ubuntu forum with a script that can download firefox, flash, java, install them and configure them and you don't even have to uninstall your 64-bit firefox. Go to the thread on ubuntuforums.org and click on the link "The new script will work on Dapper, Edgy, Feisty, and Gutsy" to download the script file.

If you want to know more about what the script do read through "Manual howto" section. To install Firefox and the plugins open a terminal and go to the catalog where you saved the downloaded file, unpack it and run it with the command:

tar -xvf ff32-3in1-*.tar.gz && cd ff32-3in1 && sudo ./3in1

It will ask you some question, enter you choices and when it has finished you should now have a firefox32 menu entry. Start firefox32 from the start menu and write about:plugins in the adressfield and you will be presented with a side over all plugins Firefox can use. Try to watch some videos from youtube to test that flash is working. Go to javatester.org to test that java is working.

Happy surfing

Update:
As of Kubuntu Hardy firefox and flash work "out of the box" for me after installing flashplugin-nonfree.