Firefox binary plugins on x86_64
Christopher Aillon
caillon at redhat.com
Wed Jul 27 04:11:55 UTC 2005
Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> Hello,
>
> somehow Firefox in SuSE 9.3 supports 32bit plugins on x86_64.
>
> The firefox-bin executable is really a 64bit binary, and
> I couldn't guess how they did it by examining the files
> in the binary package.
>
> Could we do something similar in Fedora? If needed, I'm
> volunteering to dissect SuSE's SRPM to extract the patch.
>
Hi,
I just spoke to Wolfgang Rosenauer at SuSE (maintainer of their firefox package) who says you're mistaken. SuSE ships both the 32 and 64 bit versions of the browser on x86-64 precisely for this problem, which I'm pretty sure we do as well.
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