[Bug 90947] firefox should be 32bit even on 64bit enabled OS

[Noam Meltzer]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox

Firefox should be provided only as a 32bit binary even when the underlying OS is 64bit enabled.
Reasons for that are:

1. Many plugins for firefox are provided as 32bit only. These plugins
are usually proprietary and no source code available. (one example is
shockwave flash, but even Sun's JRE plugin is a good example, as if it
was feasible to provide the plugin for 64bit, Sun would have done so
long ago).

2.  It is a waste of memory to use firefox with 64bit address space.
firefox does not need this "extra" amount of memory and there's no added
value of doing so.

3. firefox is not widely tested on x86_64, because of the above articles
and for the fact that x86_64 is a young architecture. this is just a
sure recipe to cause bugs.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Mar  9 22:27:08 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux meydele 2.6.20-9-generic #2 SMP Sun Feb 25 22:59:06 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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firefox should be 32bit even on 64bit enabled OS
https://launchpad.net/bugs/90947