Gilboa Davara wrote:
Hello all,
The attached patch (which should cover all 64bit arches) enable you to
start the 32bit version of firefox (if it's installed) by starting
firefox with the "--32" command line option.
Before I submit this to bugzilla, I have two questions:
- Do we rather have a single firefox script that executes both 32bit and
64bit or do we want to break the it to dedicated firefox[64] and
firefox32 scripts.
- Where should I submit this patch? Mozilla or redhat?
- Gilboa
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214100
I wrote an alternative implementation in this bug. I don't fully agree
with the rejection of this, but I do agree that the best long-term
solution is to fix nspluginwrapper to offload *ALL* plugins to a
separate process. A separate process also allows greater security
control with selinux.
Logic of my Implementation:
* If only the /usr/lib browser is installed, run it.
* If only the /usr/lib64 browser is installed, run it.
* If both are installed, run /usr/lib64 unless it is overridden in
/etc/sysconfig/firefox-arch.
* Allow editing /etc/sysconfig/firefox-arch as the official means for
the system administrator to override their arch selection.
%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/sysconfig/firefox-arch
This is necessary in the %files section of firefox.spec.
Benefits of this approach:
1) This DOES NOT CHANGE the behavior from its current default, which
works with browsers shipped on x86_64.
2) This defines an explicit way for the system administrator to override
their arch selection in a way that wont break with future package
updates. This effectively enables CHOICE.
Warren Togami
wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx
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