On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 19:32 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 00:24:30 +0100 > "John Lagrue" <jlagrue@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I've even resorted to installing firefox-32. And it made sod-all difference. > > Merely installing the 32 bit version doesn't actually make it > run the 32 bit version - the "firefox" shell script always > runs the 64 bit version if it finds it on the system. > > There is supposed to be some kind of magic environment variable > you can set to force it to run 32 bit, but I take a different > approach - I edit the /usr/bin/firefox script and change all > "lib64" strings in it to "wubba-wubba-wubba", then it can't > find the "wubba-wubba-wubba" version, so it is willing to > run the 32 bit version instead :-). > The package "firefox-32" installs a command called "firefox-32" and it does invoke 32bit firefox, unless for some strange reason Adobe has gotten flash to work with 64bit firefox...'cause I can see flash on my 64bit workstation. --Tim
