firefox.i386 in x86_64 repo

Toshio Kuratomi toshio at tiki-lounge.com
Thu Sep 7 15:02:25 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 22:43 -0400, Warren Togami wrote:

> - Two browser launchers?
> - How is xremote supposed to work?  You can currently only run one arch 
> of the browser at a time.
> - It is possible to run both archs with minor changes to the xremote 
> code, but this makes things even more confusing to the user.
> 
> Possible solutions... none of which are ideal.
> - Ship only i386, as that is the only useful arch.
> - Ship both, but hide the x86_64 launcher from users.

As long as we're brainstorming:
- Ship only the x86_64 launcher.  Use mozembed to embed the i386-firefox
with the flash plugin to handle flash movies.

-Toshio
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