Re: Video players, plugins, Firefox and 64 bit

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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

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