[gentoo-dev] Re: What's the use of mozilla-launcher?

[Alexander Skwar]

· Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@×××××××××××.fr>:

> On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:02:25 +0100, Alexander Skwar
> <listen@×××××××××××××××.name> wrote:
>
>> The problem with that is, that openURL accepts two parameters and
>> they are seperated with a ,. So it sees two parameters:
>> http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,447923 and 00.html - 00.html
>> is not a valid parameter, though. It should be something like
>> new-window.
>
> Btw, that's Mozilla bug #298960:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298960

Thanks.

>> Having had a closer "look" at this, I dislike this patch. Reason:
>> Up to now firefox eventually runs the openURL remote command. Users
>> might know this and might make use of this. So a user might call
>> "firefox http://gentoo.org/,new-tab" to have http://gentoo.org/
>> opened in a new tab.
>
> Imho, that a hack works at some point doesn't mean it is a supported
> feature that devs should care about never breaking.

Okay, ACK.

>  Thus, the
> launcher script could add such a dummy argument when $MOZILLA_NEWTYPE
> is not set.

The question was, however, why use this launcher script at all?
What's the use of it? What would break, if mozilla-launcher were
dumped? Why add even more magic to something, which shouldn't
even be there (anymore)?

I realize, that "back then" such a script was required, as
Mozilla 1.2 (?) would start the profile manager, if "mozilla"
was run a 2nd time when mozilla was already running. But that's
historic.

Alexander Skwar
-- 
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