Subject: Re: upgrade to native firefox == lose your cache of passwords :-(
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: pancake <pancake@phreaker.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/25/2004 10:53:33
Also would be nice to add this script that I wrote:

--------[ PREFIX/firefox ]---------
#!/bin/sh

FIREFOX=/usr/pkg/bin/firefox-gtk2

$FIREFOX -remote "ping()" 2>/dev/null

if [ "$?" = "0" ]; then
   exec $FIREFOX -remote "openURL($1,new-window)"
else
   exec $FIREFOX $1
fi
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On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 02:37:22PM +1000, George Michaelson wrote:
> 
> (followup to self)
> 
> the text at Mozilla.org is:
> 
>  If Firefox 0.9 is placed in a location with limited access privileges, it
>  should be run by a user with access to that location first, so that all
>  initial startup files are generated. There may be issues still where if a
>  restricted-access user is the first to run the app, these files may not be
>  generated properly and Firefox may enter an infinite restart loop. This
>  will be fixed in a future release.
> 
> This is what I didn't do.
> 
> -george