firefox.i386 in x86_64 repo

Callum Lerwick seg at haxxed.com
Sat Sep 9 21:35:23 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 09:14 -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote:
> This gets my vote.  And I agree with your usefulness opinion.  I've 
> never (knowingly) needed a 64-bit browser[*].

Running an i386 app under compatibility, especially one with a large
library stack like Firefox, adds noticeable startup lag and memory
bloat, as an entirely separate i386 version of all the libraries has to
be loaded.
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