on x86_64 both i386 and x86_64 versions firefox installed

Alexander Volovics awol at home.nl
Mon Nov 6 22:19:49 UTC 2006


On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 09:09:39AM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:

> > 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.

I have been studying it some more and I suspect strongly that
you are right. It is very problematic to have both installed and
functional.

So I removed the 64 bit version because I need the plugins.

Thanks,
Alexander




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