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
