Am Montag, den 06.11.2006, 09:09 -0500 schrieb Tom Horsley: > > 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've found a much more convenient way to launch my 32-bit firefox if I really need it: you just have to export GRE_PATH ... So just put #!/bin/sh GRE_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.7 /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.7/firefox in a shell script in /home/user ... Cheers, Jo -- Joachim Kunze Alte Marktstrasse 16 eMail: joachim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx D-71665 Horrheim Tel: +49 7042-830006
