mozilla-firefox ebuild disables autoadmin features. autoadmin lets you configure all config-params remote via e.g. http. The responsible "prefs" extension is in buildconfig (about:buildconfig) : Configure arguments --disable-ldap --disable-mailnews --enable-crypto --disable-composer --enable-single-profile --disable-profilesharing --enable-optimize=-O2 --enable-old-abi-compat-wrappers --disable-installer --disable-pedantic --enable-crypto --with-system-jpeg --with-system-png --with-system-zlib --without-system-nspr --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 --disable-ipv6 --disable-xinerama --enable-xprint --enable-freetype2 --enable-freetypetest --disable-debug --disable-tests --enable-reorder --enable-strip --enable-strip-libs --enable-elf-dynstr-gc --enable-xft --enable-oji --enable-mathml --disable-jsd --disable-xpctools --disable-gnomevfs --enable-calendar --enable-svg --enable-svg-renderer-cairo --with-default-mozilla-five-home=/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox --enable-extensions=cookie,xml-rpc,xmlextras,pref,transformiix,universalchardet,webservices,inspector,gnomevfs,negotiateauth,typeaheadfind,-venkman,-gnomevfs --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu a grep for the autoadmin config-params in strings /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin executable returns nothing. After emerging mozilla-firefox-bin, about:buidconfig returns: Configure arguments --disable-ldap --disable-mailnews --enable-extensions=cookie,xml-rpc,xmlextras,pref,transformiix,universalchardet,webservices,inspector,gnomevfs,negotiateauth --enable-crypto --disable-composer --enable-single-profile --disable-profilesharing --disable-debug '--enable-optimize=-Os -freorder-blocks -fno-reorder-functions -gstabs+' --disable-tests --enable-official-branding --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 --enable-xft --disable-freetype2 --enable-static --disable-shared prefs extension is there, too. strings /opt/firefox/firefox-bin returns: global config url is empty - did you set autoadmin.global_config_url? failed to create URL - is autoadmin.global_config_url valid? - %s autoadmin.offline_failover autoadmin.append_emailaddr autoadmin.refresh_interval autoadmin.failover_to_cached Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge =mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r5 2. strings /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin|grep autoadmin ==> nothing 3. (unmerge mozilla-firefox, to be sure) 4. emerge mozilla-firefox-bin 5. strings /opt/firefox/firefox-bin|grep autoadmin ==> 6 results Actual Results: mozilla-firefox misses the autoadmin-feature, perhaps because of an applied patch ? copying the firefox-bin of the mozilla-firefox-bin ebuild to /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/. (the mozilla-firefox ebuild) seems to work, but not deeply tested..
Still applies to newer versions of firefox or is it closing time for this bug?
(In reply to comment #1) > Still applies to newer versions of firefox or is it closing time for this bug? > Well, newer ebuilds do not contain the pref-extension anymore. So the "bug" has gone.
