on x86_64 both i386 and x86_64 versions firefox installed

Tom Horsley tomhorsley at adelphia.net
Mon Nov 6 14:09:39 UTC 2006


> I suspect that firefox.x86_64 gets started though I have'nt
> quite discovered how yet.

Firefox is a monumental pain if you try to use both 32 and 64 bit
versions. The actual /usr/bin/firefox file is a shell script that
does things like check for the existance of /usr/lib64/firefox*
and invoke that version if it exists, so there is almost no point
in having both installed.

I've got a ridiculous shell script that edits the /usr/bin/firefox
script to change /lib64 to /libnot64 so it won't find the 64 bit
versions, then it can run the 32 bit version, but I haven't figured
out how to subvert the code that finds an already running
firefox, so you have to have all instances of firefox closed
before you can start a 32 bit version with hacked up
firefox script.




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