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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