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Firefox 32bit will not run on Windows 7 64bit
I really hope someone here can help me, I am doing my nut in with this problem.
At the start of this year I got myself a new Toshiba laptop, pimped out to the max. It is a P500 ST6822, 18.1inch screen, 6GB RAM, HDD 500GB x 2, 1GB DDR2 Video RAM. You get the idea.
I have been using Linux for the last 5 or 6 years, mainly because the contracts I had were with companies who used Linux. I had now settled down, and my offices, while the network backbone was Linux, I needed to have a windows machine that would run the windows based SW that was being used by so many.
One of the first things I did was to download and install Firefox. That was, and still is my default browser on Linux, and I have built up a collection of add-ons that I have grown very comfortable with. I knew, based on everything I had read, that there wouldn't be a problem with installing the standard FF 32bit on Windows 7 64bit.
How wrong my information was.
I installed FF and as soon as I tried to run it, a few seconds later a little window popped up informing me that FF had crashed, would l like to let Mozilla know and would I like to restart it.
I ok'ed all the options, and waited for FF to start, only to be greeted with the same pop-up as before. This time I cancelled the restart of FF and decided instead to shut down the laptop then do a cold restart and then try to run FF, which I did.
It didn't help.
No matter what I tired I couldn't get FF to run. I did know that there was a 64bit version of FF and started looking for it. Once I found it, I downloaded and installed it. And hey presto, it worked.
I was greatly relieved and proceeded to install all the add-ons and plugins I had on FF on my Linux machine.
Everything worked fine until I went to a site that used Flash. The flash animation didn't work. I was informed that I didn't have the correct version of flash & that I should install it. Which I did, again. It didn't work.
Long story short. Flash does not work on Firefox, aka Namoroka, 64bit. I went everywhere, tried all the solutions suggested, none worked. I tried downloading the 64bit version of flash, but not even that works.
I was left with installing Wyzo, based on the Mozilla engine, which does run on 64bit Windows 7 and does work with flash. I find however that I am moving back and forth between Namoroka (FF) and Wyzo since Wyzo doesn't do everything I want it to do.
I hope someone here can help me.
I just want the standard Firefox 32bit to run on my Widows 7 64 bit OS.
Does anyone have a plan/solution/answer? Please help.