Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 427115
SIMPLE (w/ patch) MOZ_ARCH should be settable. (i want 32-bit firefox even on 64bit installs)
Last modified: 2007-12-31 22:58:28 EST
Description of problem: some 3rd party plugins for firefox (flash) ship in 32-bit versions. Ergo, i want to be able to tell firefox to run in 32bit mode...but the startup script makes this really tough. i keep having to hack /usr/bin/firefox. ideally, the firefox startup script would respect the MOZ_ARCH variable instead of clobberring it....and ideally 3rd-party plugins (flash) would install export MOZ_ARCH=i386 into /etc/profile.d and the world would be grand... please incorporate this patch... PATCH: --- firefox~ 2007-12-13 08:21:51.000000000 -0800 +++ firefox 2007-12-28 21:47:11.000000000 -0800 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ ## ## Variables ## -MOZ_ARCH=$(uname -m) +[ "$MOZ_ARCH" ] || MOZ_ARCH=$(uname -m) case $MOZ_ARCH in x86_64 | ia64 | s390 ) MOZ_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib64"
From the shell: setarch i386 (or whatever you want)
But fwiw, flash works for me using the 64bit firefox. Make sure you have nspluginwrapper.i386 and nspluginwrapper.x86_64 installed. Firefox is much faster in this mode.