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....
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), and to make sure
that new urls re-used an existing instance. 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. 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.
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.
-Richard
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