approved mechanism to switch to 32-bit firefox?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Feb 28 18:09:54 UTC 2007


On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:06:00PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote:
>    I noticed that a fresh install of x86_64 FC6 resulted in
> both i386 and x86_64 packages for firefox being installed.
> I would like to configure my machine to default to the
> i386 version of firefox and am wondering if there is
> an approved mechanism to setting this (since FC6 went
> out of its way to preinstall the i386 binaries on
> x86_64)?

Install the "firefox-32" package from Extras:

Description :
Alternate Launcher for 32bit Firefox on Multilib Systems
If you have both 32bit and 64bit Firefox installed, the standard
/usr/bin/firefox launcher will run only the 64bit version.  This
launcher allows you to choose to run the 32bit browser by running
/usr/bin/firefox-32.  Please be sure  that all Firefox instances
are closed before running this launcher.


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