Bug 208819

Summary: [RFE] Enable running 32-bit firefox on x86_64
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Zoltan Boszormenyi <zboszor>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
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Version: rawhideCC: goeran, mcepl, richard.cunningham, wtogami
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Enable running 32-bit firefox on 64-bit none

Description Zoltan Boszormenyi 2006-10-02 07:00:33 UTC 
Description of problem:

/usr/bin/firefox always starts 64-bit Firefox if both arch is installed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

all

How reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run /usr/bin/firefox
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

I modified /usr/bin/firefox script so if it encounters "ff32"
as first argument then it doesn't consider /usr/lib64/firefox*.
This argument is then gets forgotten and usual processing continues.
This should be integrated to the "default applications" framework
so one should be able to just select "Firefox (32-bit, plugin-compatible)"
from the drop-down list on an x86-64 system.
Comment 1 Zoltan Boszormenyi 2006-10-02 07:00:34 UTC 
Created attachment 137521 [details]
Enable running 32-bit firefox on 64-bit
Comment 2 Göran Uddeborg 2006-11-10 10:47:10 UTC 
This would be a useful feature as long as there are plugins that are only
available in 32 bit version.

Another suggestion for how to do it:  Check if MOZ_LIB_DIR is set in the
environment, and don't override it if it is.
Comment 3 Matěj Cepl 2007-12-17 14:05:31 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 425951 ***