32 bit firefox in 64 bit openSUSE 11.0

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Could anybody install the 32 bit firefox in a 64 bit OS?

As usual, this is necessary to make java plugin working. Although there may be other solutions, I used this way since years.

But this time I get an error when starting firefox:

Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.0 and 1.9.0

I have installed the 64 and 32 bit versions of mozilla-xulrunner, both separately and together.

The 32 bit firefox never worked.

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I dont know which rpms I’ve installed but same error message is appears on my laptop.

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I don’t have problems with FF 64 bit…
I didn’t do anything after initial install from OS11.

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it is weird :s
on my desktop pc FF is working flawlessly but on my laptop, doesnt.
I tried to install xulrunner-1.9.0 32 bit but it doesnt solved.

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I removed xulrunner-1.9.0 package with ignore dependencies and re-installed,
it is working again.

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I did it on mine opensuse10.2 (64bit) box. So i don’t know if it works on os11.0. I downloaded the generic tar.bz2 for the Mozilla site, then i extracted it in /usr/local and run from there. It asked if i wanted to make it the default browser. I answered yes, and it works flawlessy until now. Give it a try.

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I installed xulrunner (not the 32 bit version) as a 32 bit package (thus i586 instead of x86_64) and that helped for me.

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I gave up and just installed the 32bit version of Seamonkey - which works fine for java based websites that don’t work too well with knqueror.

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changing xulrunner 190 to the i585 version worked for me

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I am running openSUSE 10.3, but ran into similar problems.

I have the following packages
rpm -qva |grep -i -E -e ‘firefox|xulrunner|seamonkey’|sort
MozillaFirefox-3.0-1.2
mozilla-xulrunner190-1.9.0.1-1.1
mozilla-xulrunner190-gnomevfs-1.9.0.1-1.1
mozilla-xulrunner190-translations-1.9.0.1-1.1
seamonkey-1.1.11-1.1
seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.1.11-1.1
seamonkey-venkman-1.1.11-1.1

Using strace on firefox I noticed
open("/usr/lib/firefox/application.ini", O_RDONLY) = 3

precedes the check of the /etc/gre.d/1.9.0.1.system.conf contents.

In application.ini, I found

[Gecko]
MinVersion=1.9.0
MaxVersion=1.9.0

Changing those values to 1.9.0.1 did the trick.Further experimenting showed that I only need to set the MaxVersion value to 1.9.0.1.
Which (duh!) makes sense given the xulrunner version I have.

Very frustrating!

–Eric