ยท Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 11/12/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In Knode/KDE, I configured, that firefox is to be used as the browser, >> so that when I click on a URL, it's loaded in firefox. I did this by >> modifying .kde/share/config/kdeglobals and adding/changing: >> >> [General] >> BrowserApplication=!/usr/bin/firefox > > You could also set this to /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox to bypass > mozilla-launcher. > >> I now changed the /usr/bin/firefox script so, that it doesn't >> use mozilla-launcher anymore. Up to now, I can't find any problems. >> >> What problems did I overlook? And what's actually the use of >> mozilla-launcher with current firefoxes? >> >> What would break, if mozilla-launcher is no longer used? > > Nothing that I can tell....
That's my impression as well. > It looks to me like the main purpose of Gentoo's mozilla-launcher was > to transparently support both firefox and firefox-bin (or mozilla and > mozilla-bin, or thunderbid and thunderbird-bin, etc), Hm, I don't understand. As it is right now, firefox-bin will install /usr/bin/firefox-bin, won't it? Or will it also install /usr/bin/firefox? > and to make sure > that new urls re-used an existing instance. Yes, old versions of Mozilla & Firefox required this. But, just like you say, current versions don't require this anymore. > Current firefox versions > seem to support this internally, and you end up with firefox or > firefox-bin installed in /usr/bin depending upon which one you > install. Yep. > I don't see any reason why /usr/bin/firefox can't exec > /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox and /usr/bin/firefox-bin can't exec > /opt/firefox/firefox. > >> Cf. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150404 > > As you have probably already seen, I added a small patch to the bug, > just in case the Gentoo devs want to keep it around. Thanks! I was thinking about this at the weekend. Is it a *MUST* that a server "understands" that %2c is a ,? >> Or should I take this thread and purpose (ie. dump mozilla-launcher >> for at least firefox) to the dev list? > > Yeah, -dev would be the appropriate place to bring up dumping > mozilla-launcher. Thanks. Alexander Skwar -- Tussman's Law: Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has come. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
