> 1/ Firefox can be downloaded from Mozilla site (and Mozilla does not > provide a 64-bit version for their browser, only 32-bit binaries). Once > downloaded, no need to install anything, just click and run. Then, you > can download the flash plugin (32 bits) and store it under Firefox > plugins folder. > > 2/ Installing Firefox/Iceweasel standalone in a concrete directory so it > gets no messed with the 64-bits installation and put there the 32-bits > plugins. > > In fact, IIRC, the second option was the most used when no flash nor java > plugin was available natively for 64 bits systems. > > And last, there is the option you already mentioned, making a chroot > environment and run it from there :-) > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón
I use #1 to easily run Thunderbird 3.x on Lenny. I did not realize that these statically linked binaries could also be used to run 32bit on a amd64 machine. Thanks for the info! -- Jordan Metzmeier
