Can't figure out Firefox Plugin Requirement

[Brian Chabot]

Bayard Coolidge wrote:
> I've had similar problems, but with SuSE 10.2 on an AMD X2 -based
> laptop with Firefox "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US;
> rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20061023 SUSE/2.0.0.1-0.1 Firefox/2.0.0.2pre" .
>
> There appears to be no workable solution, as yet, for the lack
> of a 64-bit Java plugin.
[snip]
> AFAICT, both the openSuSE and Sun teams are aware of the problem (as,
> I suspect the
> pertinent Firefox teams), but progress appears to be glacial.
>
> Any insight/help/confirmation would be appreciated, however.

I can confirm the problem exists in Mandriva 2007 Free (with all current
updates) and Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7)
Gecko/20060405 SeaMonkey/1.0.5 on an AMD X2 desktop and
nspluginwrapper-0.9.90.3-1mdv2007.0 (Mandriva's latest release in RPM).

It's a sore spot for me.  Nspluginwrapper is HIGHLY unstable as well. 
It will often hang or crash the browser when using Acrobat Reader of
Flash Player....

Brian