Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 Runs as a 32-bit App on x86_64 Linux
This is great news! I wanted to try the latest beta of Firefox 3 - Beta 2 as I've been reading pretty nice things about it. So I go to get the source to compile it on my Fedora Core 5 x86_64 box and realize that I'm missing cairo-gtk, and don't feel like tracking it down right now. The reason I built 2.0.x from scratch was that the tarball of firefox 2.0.x for linux simply didn't run on my x86_64 box in 32-bit more. Simply would not work. I looked at a lot of things to try and get it to work, but no luck.
So I think Hey, I'll give it another try! and downloaded the linux 32-bit code for Firefox 3.0b2. To my complete amazement it worked! I was stunned. I then was able to link in the 32-bit Java plugin just as nice as you please, and Bingo! I'm running Firefox distribution on my 64-bit machine. This is really great news.
I'm glad they have done this. It makes it a ton easier for me to stay up to date with the fixes, etc.