*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 28479 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/28479
Dear Alexander,
May I please paint a picture for you (one that ubuntu really aims to achieve).
A school for which I am setting up an LTSP installation has Large Xeon systems
with 8GB RAM each.
Thus no 32bit distro will work because of the 4GB limit. So the only
installation possible is amd64. Done.
However, their programming language (dictated by the national examination
board) is java. Well that's fine because ubuntu ship with the full stack,
so the CAN develop java APPLICATIONS, but when it gets to java applets, how do
they test it.
Well what I have had to do (because installing in a chroot or manual
32bit firefox installation is not a good solution for maintenance by
others not as well versed in linux as I) was to install swiftweasel
(32bit) as a 64bit deb file, along with ia32-sun-java6-bin/jre.
So in short, what is requried (even as a temporary option is a second
package (not installed by default?) of firefox as a 32bit application,
but for a 64bit installation.
WHY NOT USE nspluginwrapper - simple, it doesn't work with java because
of the different API's used by netscape and java.
So, this isn't a major ask, please provide a 32bit firefox build packaged for a
64 bit environment, just until sun-java6-plugin OR ia32-sun-java6-plugin
is around.
Regards,
Danson Joseph
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[wontfix] firefox should be 32bit even on 64bit enabled OS
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/90947
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