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

[Richard Fish]

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....

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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