Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 08/24/05 17:06 CST:
> No problem. The very special thanks really goes to Kevin Somervill
> for actually going through the firefox (mozilla) script and figuring
> out there's an error. I doubt the base of that script has been
> changed in years. Someone should
On 8/24/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan, special thanks to you for bringing up the old archive message
> where this fix was originally posted. Kudos, dude.
No problem. The very special thanks really goes to Kevin Somervill
for actually going through the firefox (mozilla) scrip
Andrew Benton wrote these words on 08/24/05 16:25 CST:
> Surely the choice is between /opt and /usr/local? I vote for /usr/local. It'd
> be good to try and keep executable scripts and binaries out of /usr/lib
Actually, I'm now leaning to simply doing a sed on the installed
/usr/bin/firefox after
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 08/24/05 16:44 CST:
> Look at the file
> mozilla/browser/app/mozilla.in
> This is the base for the firefox script. You can do the same sed on
> this file before the build to achieve the same effect. Like I said, I
> have the patch, but I'm at work and can't get
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 08/24/05 15:54 CST:
> Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 08/24/05 15:30 CST:
>
>>The issue of profile locking when trying to open a URL in an already
>>running Firefox received some attention on blfs-support. Kevin
>>Somervill went through the run-mozilla.sh s
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
I like putting things into /opt too, but there have been several
comments about putting things into /usr/bin for other packages. For
example, xorg (from /usr/X11R6), qt (from /opt), and kde (from /opt).
Surely the choice is between /opt and /usr/local? I vote for /usr/local
On 8/24/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, I'm now leaning to simply doing a sed on the installed
> /usr/bin/firefox after using the current book instructions. This
> makes the profile locking issue disappear.
Randy,
Look at the file
mozilla/browser/app/mozilla.in
This is t
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Original Message
Subject: Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:47:44 -0500
From: Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 08/24/05 15:30 CST:
> The issue of profile locking wh
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Please folks, comment on this as I would like to implement immediately.
> We'd really need a compelling reason why we don't change the existing
> instructions to use Archaic's method.
>
I don't have time this week or next (family visiting) to investigate,
but I trust you
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> No, what we've always done in the past is create a symlink in
> /usr/bin:
>
> ln -sfv /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin
Ah, OK. Guess I never paid attention to what you had been doing. That
would indeed be simpler.
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Randy McMurchy wrote:
> I will play with developing a wrapper script to put in /usr/bin so
> that it calls /opt/firefox/firefox appropriately (depending
> on if it is called with a URL or new-tab URL.
>
> I suggest Archaic's method of building Firefox be implemented into
> BLFS immediately. The o
Ken Moffat wrote these words on 08/24/05 12:35 CST:
> But, I like having multiple browsers so that I can look at different
> things on different desktops. Epiphany works with the book's current
> instructions, with a different set of instructions the .pc files didn't
> get installed (and the
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Randy McMurchy wrote:
[cc'd to BLFS-Dev from BLFS-Support]
Archaic wrote these words on 06/25/05 12:01 CST:
[snip what is already instructions in the book]
make -C browser/installer &&
cd dist &&
mv firefox /opt/firefox-${version} &&
ln -sf /opt/firefox-${version} /opt
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