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

[Aron Griffis]

Matthew Kennedy wrote:  [Mon Nov 13 2006, 10:05:23AM EST]
> I'd be interested to hear what its purpose is exactly.

All of the reasons are primarily historical, and I haven't kept track
of which still apply and which don't:

- separate distribution of the launcher script from the program so
  that fixes to the script don't require emerging the entire browser

- don't confuse mozilla/thunderbird/firefox sessions

- handle multiple URLs elegantly

- catch ownership issues in the profile that lead to confusing
  bugzillas

- clean up cache files from older browser versions since they can
  cause strange UI issues

- set MOZILLA_LIBDIR and MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH so that the browser gets its
  own libraries and plugins rather than some arbitrary set from, for
  example, thunderbird

If somebody wants to consider whether these issues are thoroughly
alleviated by the official launcher scripts, or if mozilla-launcher
should be modified in some way, go ahead and post your ideas.

Aron
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