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Bugs Abound

Posted Jun 16, 2004 15:10 UTC (Wed) by tjw.org (guest, #20716)
In reply to: Bugs Abound by jamesh
Parent article: Mozilla Firefox 0.9 released

Yes, I'm positive that 0.8 uses ~/.phoenix, but what I didn't realize was that it too creates an empty ~/.mozilla directory.

Also, it looks as though you are correct about the ~/.firefox directory being created by the rc build since I can't get 0.9 to re-create it.

However, I'm still convinced that all this dir switching is the root of this bug because when I strace a 'firefox -remote' command with 0.9 it is still looking for ~/.firefox for the profile instead of ~/.mozilla/firefox.

QED


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Bugs Abound

Posted Jun 16, 2004 19:36 UTC (Wed) by tjw.org (guest, #20716) [Link]


Just figured this out.

I had to edit the firefox/firefox shell script to change:

MOZ_USER_DIR=".firefox"

to:

MOZ_USER_DIR=".mozilla/firefox"

Now the -remote flag works.

Bugs Abound

Posted Jun 17, 2004 14:27 UTC (Thu) by papabean (guest, #22389) [Link]

Was that the only change you had to make? I still can't get the -remote to work.

Bugs Abound

Posted Jun 17, 2004 16:11 UTC (Thu) by tjw.org (guest, #20716) [Link]

I guess I jumped to conclusions because -remote still doesn't work for me either.

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