Bug 114524
Summary: | mozilla launching xremote fix | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Warren Togami <wtogami> |
Component: | mozilla | Assignee: | Christopher Blizzard <blizzard> |
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | rawhide | CC: | djh, james, rdieter, wtogami |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2004-05-09 12:42:03 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Warren Togami
2004-01-29 01:50:28 UTC
Note that I have personally been running this in production on multiple RH9, FC1, and FC2test machines for the past few months with a mix of mozilla, MozillaFirebird-0.7, firefox-0.8, and thunderbird 0.4 and 0.5. I am totally convinced that this workaround is better than our current situation where the browser just FAILS while Thunderbird is running, while not effecting non-thunderbird users. There is another trivial fix to the thunderbird problem that can be solved without changing mozilla. If you patch thunderbird to use different property names used for the xremote communication (eg. _THUNDERBIRD rather than _MOZILLA), mozilla/firebird will ignore thunderbird and vice versa. If Thunderbird is patched in that way, will clicking links in Thunderbird still be able to launch a browser window in the existing mozilla or firefox session? According to http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/linuxurls.html thunderbird just executes a program to handle http links. The only difference this change would cause is that firebird/mozilla's mozilla-xremote-client program would not be able to open thunderbird windows, and thunderbird's mozilla-xremote-client would not be able to open mozilla/firebird windows. When I was doing some work for ActiveState on Komodo a few years back, they had a patch to do this sort of thing. Since the changes are in MPL covered files they have released the patch, and you shouldn't have any licensing problems. The changes made by Komodo can be found in the file silo-mozilla-runtime.patch in ftp://ftp.activestate.com/Komodo/MozillaPatches/mozilla-patches-ko25.zip (it is a 4 line change to 3 files). http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237283 Blizzard has implemented permanent fixes that seem to work extremely well, going into mozilla, firefox and thunderbird. https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1113 fedora.us thunderbird coming REAL SOON NOW. Blizzard is it still in the plans to patch this before FC2 final? Woo! It has been included in FC2. |