Error adding security module in firefox 3.5 (x86_64)

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

I've installed the eID middleware from this website
(beid-middleware-3.5.3-fedora-12-i686-6161.tgz ).   

Note that I'm running Fedora 12 on x86_64.  There were some problems
because the install program did not see that it needed the i686 versions
instead of the x86_64 versions of some libraries which were installed, but
I managed to install all the proper i686 versions of the libraries and the
beidgui works.

Then I try then to add the security device in Firefox 3.5, as described in
the provided document on eid.belgium.be.   But I'm getting an error "Unable
to add module", with no extra information.   

Is this maybe because Firefox on x86_64 requires 64-bit modules?   If that
is the problem, are these available or is there a workaround to allow
Firefox to use the 32-bit module?

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Operating system: Fedora 12 on x86_64 (fully updated)
Browser: Firefox 3.5.6

Original issue reported on code.google.com by peter.ve...@gmail.com on 30 Jan 2010 at 6:21

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I have the same problem with Firefox 3.5.8 when i tried installing security 
module, i
have an error message "Impossible d'ajouter le module" 

I have also tried belgiumeid-1.0.6.xpi  without success

beidgui are ok

Operating system : Fedora 12
Browser : Forefox 3.5.8

Original comment by Gaetan.C...@gmail.com on 27 Feb 2010 at 3:40

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Same issue here.
OS: Windows XP Home
Browser: Firefox 3.6

Original comment by vipe...@telenet.be on 10 Mar 2010 at 10:26

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Firefox is currently only officially available as a 32-bit application, so you 
are more than likely running 32-bit unless you went out of your way to get the 
64-bit pre-release Firefox. Since Firefox is 32-bit, you can only load 32-bit 
versions of modules in it. If you try to load a 64-bit module from a 32-bit 
Firefox (or vice versa), you'll get the "Unable to add module" error.

Original comment by skn...@gmail.com on 14 Sep 2010 at 8:20

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I get the following on my system (standard Fedora 12, which came out a year 
ago, with nothing specially done by me):

> rpm -q firefox
firefox-3.5.11-1.fc12.x86_64

> file /usr/lib64/firefox-3.5/firefox
/usr/lib64/firefox-3.5/firefox: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 
(SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, stripped

So maybe Fedora is then shipping the pre-release.

In any case, I'm running 64-bit firefox.

Original comment by peter.ve...@gmail.com on 14 Sep 2010 at 5:11

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According to this page:
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc6-64.html

Fedora x86-64 is already running 64-bit firefox since at least 2007.   From 
other posts, it seems that this is actually provided by the distributions 
themselves (also on Suse and Ubuntu according to Wikipedia) and Mozilla is only 
now starting to provide a pre-release, as you said.  

It was probably not very stable back then, but I'm running in 64-bit since the 
beginning of this year, and have had no problems at all.

Original comment by peter.ve...@gmail.com on 14 Sep 2010 at 5:32

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In the trunk, we have what will become eid-mw 4.0, which is not ready for 
production yet, but: which is fully 32/64 bit capable. Also, we have automated 
fedora13 RPM builds. You can either run the ./configure ; make in the "rpm" 
directory, on a 64-bit fedora, or I'll be happy to upload one or several of the 
testing RPM's.

Original comment by fr...@apsu.be on 1 Oct 2010 at 8:06

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Set to WontFix since this is a 3.5.x issue

Original comment by fr...@apsu.be on 1 Oct 2010 at 11:02

• Changed state: WontFix