Firefox binary plugins on x86_64

[Warren Togami]

Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> somehow Firefox in SuSE 9.3 supports 32bit plugins on x86_64.
>

Which plugins?  Some plugins like mozplugger have a separate native 
binary plugin, and that runs a separate process for the media.  If it is 
running a separate process then that is one possible explanation of how 
they did it.

> The firefox-bin executable is really a 64bit binary, and
> I couldn't guess how they did it by examining the files
> in the binary package.
> 
> Could we do something similar in Fedora?  If needed, I'm
> volunteering to dissect SuSE's SRPM to extract the patch.
> 

If you could post URLs to their .src.rpm that would be handy.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com