Firefox binary plugins on x86_64

[dragoran]

Warren Togami wrote:

> Christopher Aillon wrote:
>
>> Bill Nottingham wrote:
>>
>>> Christopher Aillon (caillon at redhat.com) said:
>>>
>>>> SuSE ships both the 32 and 64 bit versions of the browser on x86-64 
>>>> precisely for this problem, which I'm pretty sure we do as well.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> No, we don't.
>>
>>
>>
>> Why not?  We used to at some point in the not-too-distant past or my 
>> memory is failing me at my old age.  :-(
>>
>
> With FC4+, aside from the conflicting /usr/bin/firefox script, it is 
> now impossible to even uninstall the 64bit firefox and install the 
> 32bit firefox due to the multilib bonoboectomy.  Doing this has been 
> problematic in the past when it was possible during FC3, because 
> whenever there is another firefox security update, it would blow away 
> the 32bit version and install the new 64bit version.
>
> Warren Togami
> wtogami at redhat.com
>
I am running 32-bit firefox on fc4 x86_64 without any problems.
When there is a security update I just grab it from the i386 tree.