fix firefox?

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I once had firefox x86_64 installed (because it was the default).
But that one has problems with plugins (flash, java), which are
much easily solved by using the i386 version.
So I unstalled firefox, and installed it again using:

  yum install firefox.i386

This worked, and even the plugins worked fine afterwards.

I did have some problems when uninstalling, because yum insisted
on a whole load of dependencies going up to uninstalling the package
'firstboot' (wow!).  However I can't remember the exact details anymore.
I do not remember having to force anything; just reinstall a little
bit more than I was expecting to.
I do remember that after the erase/install, no particular problems
were left and I used firefox since then without any problems.

Today came the update for firefox 3.0.2.

So I did "yum update".  The depencies included xulrunner and devhelp.

However, yum complained about a conflict between xulrunner 1.9.0.1
being incompatible.  So I erased xulrunner first (yum erase xulrunner).

And then installed firefox again:

  yum install firefox.i386

it pulls in xulrunner as well, but two different versions for two different
architectures (???):

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
 firefox                 i386       3.0.2-3.el5.centos  updates            11 M
Installing for dependencies:
 xulrunner               x86_64     1.9.0.2-5.el5    updates            10 M
 xulrunner               i386       1.9.0.1-1.el5_2  updates            10 M

and afterwards firefox complains:

 $ firefox
 Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.0.2 and 1.9.0.2.

Any idea how to fix the fox?


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