How many FireFox 64bit users are there?

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I'm curious how many of the 64 bit os users out there, really need a 64bit web browser?

Is there any reason you couldn't live with a 32 bit one?

Can Fedora put firefox.i386 in the x86_64 tree, just like several other i386 rpms?

I realize adding it is pretty simple, I've done it for a long time.  However with processors being realitivly cheap new users are buying the amd64 all the time and want to run a 64 bit os.  We either turn around and tell them, go to mozilla.org grab the package and install it else were ( can't find fedora bugs ) or cp your fedora.repo add i386 through it, and overlap a hole lot of packages, "have fun with that"....

I personally use one from mozilla.org at the moment because I do need things like flash and plugins like that.  Before you start whining telling me its closed source, my wife is a photorgrapher and her website has a lot of flash, I'm sure many of you can understand telling your wife no, can't go to your website because you used closed source flash would go over like a lead ballon ;)  And its not just here site, I go to a lot of places that have flash and so do a lot of people.

Anyway, I propose we either

1.)  add firefox.i386 and all the deps to the x86_64 tree and install it by default.
2.) step 1 plus just drop the x86_64 version.
3.) tell me to take a hike

I don't care which way you do it, like I said I can get it and have for a long time, but I'm not new to linux, new to 64bit OS or new to Fedora, and think that person would have a better time in Fedora if they can use there browser the first go round and get plugins and whatever else to work.
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