On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 11:30 -0500, Warren Togami wrote:
Gilboa Davara wrote:
>
> This a nice solution - though I rather have a simple method of
> overriding the selection without editing a configuration file and/or
> making it system wide.
> IMHO, adding a command line parameters seems like the obvious choice as
> it gives the user additional means of controlling which version is
> executed.
>
> I can combine your patch with mine - read, use the default
> in /etc/sysconfig/firefox-arch unless the user specifically requested
> something else.
> Does it sound reasonable to you?
>
> - Gilboa
I don't think there is much value to end-users to have a --32 or --64
switch, because command line is NOT how you should expect users to
launch firefox. It wouldn't hurt to have the option though.
I can argue that we can add a second icon that adds the --32bit command
line parameter.
Also keep in mind that due to xremote, you CAN'T run both 32bit and
64bit browsers at the same time without making further modifications to
firefox to handle it.
Known problem.
It's possible to disable xremote check if --32/--64 parameter is set,
but it may create havoc in the .mozilla directory, making it less, err,
useful.
In any case, merging our patches would be a moot point, because it wont
be accepted into Fedora.
Point taken.
...One question though, if there's no way to use it (32bit firefox), why
the !@?#^?#^ are we installing it in the first place?
- Gilboa