[Windmill-dev] Linux Firefox finally fully supported

Mikeal Rogers mikeal at osafoundation.org
Mon Sep 24 16:50:25 PDT 2007


After a bunch of bugs bouncing back and forth we finally figured out  
the FF Linux issue.

The problem is actually with the bash script "firefox" that launches  
"firefox-bin" on Ubuntu. The mozilla guys said this wasn't the  
default script but was actually specific to Ubuntu. The script tries  
to prepend file:// to any valid files, this breaks the -profile  
option once it's sent to firefox-bin.

I fixed the problem by copying the bash script, patching it, and  
executing the new one.

Anyway, firefox browser launching and dynamic configuration all works  
on linux now. Enjoy :)

-Mikeal


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