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

[Alexander Skwar]

· Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>:

> On 11/12/06, Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name> 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
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