I have been using different Linux distributions on and of since 2001 and right now I'm using more than one of them. The one this short short story is about is CentOS 5 which is based on RedHat Enterprise Linux 5, so this should also work on RHEL 5 even if I haven't had a chance to test it yet.
I've always liked the way CentOS works, it's a very stable and working distro even if it doesn't always have the latest software. This is why I had to manually install the latest stable Firefox, since Firefox 2 has many nice plugins I use. Here is how I did it.
First off all we need to install compat-libstdc++-33. Otherwise Firefox won't run.
Then download the latest version of Firefox and unpack it to /usr/lib
Set the link for the binary
#mv firefox firefox-1.5
#ln -sf /usr/lib/firefox/firefox ./
Setting up the mplayerplug-in
#ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in* ./
Shutdown firefox and restart and you should have a working setup.
With this article and another, I was able to get Flash to work on this version of FFox 64bit.
Here's the other article:
http://justinconover.com/blog/2007/05/12/flash-with-64-bit-firefox/#comment-174
(copied below)
Since I run CentOS 5 and Fedora 7 on most of my laptop/desktop(s) I use 64 bit version for the OS. Instead of adding 32 bit firefox (installed too) you can use nspluginwrapper for flash/java/real and several other plugins.
Install Firefox 2.0.0.9 in CentOS 5 / RHEL 5
sudo rpm -ivh nspluginwrapper-*
tar xvzf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
cp install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
cp install_flash_player_9_linux/flashplayer.xpt /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
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