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Bug 170059 - default firefox browser should have more Gentoo stuff
Summary: default firefox browser should have more Gentoo stuff
Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Release Team
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Reported: 2007-03-09 04:32 UTC by SpanKY
Modified: 2010-12-01 17:18 UTC (History)
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Description SpanKY gentoo-dev 2007-03-09 04:32:23 UTC
for the homepage, it should be easy to change by dropping a file into /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/greprefs/ named like 'all-gentoo-livecd.js':
pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://www.gentoo.org/");

also, if the livecd could include default Gentoo search engines in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/searchplugins/, that'd be hot ... you can find them just by visiting the gentoo.org homepage and looking at the source ... you want the opensearch <link>'s
Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-03-09 15:40:09 UTC
Drop some attachments here and I'll include them in the livecd/root_overlay for everything.

I do like this idea.  Even better would be to add them to the Firefox ebuild via USE=branding, so I don't have to repeat this again next release.
Comment 2 Bugs Bunny 2007-05-06 02:16:34 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Drop some attachments here and I'll include them in the livecd/root_overlay for
> everything.
> 
> I do like this idea.  Even better would be to add them to the Firefox ebuild
> via USE=branding, so I don't have to repeat this again next release.
> 

As gentoo can not put out a branded ebuild it is useless, Your ebuild would violate the terms of the license and would therfor endanger gentoo. To rename anything without calling it by its codename for a release is also not permitted unless it is a vanilla build which is not possible with current state of mozilla products and the fact that everything gentoo is bleeding edge according to mozilla foundation.
Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2007-05-06 08:09:18 UTC
incorrect ... the license applies to binaries

users emerging firefox with Gentoo branding would produce a binary that *they* could not redistribute, it doesnt have anything to do with us

also, the things i'm talking about here do not apply to the license issues
Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-11-24 22:07:54 UTC
Mozilla: what do you guys think?  I think it would be nice to have some Gentoo-branded/specific things with USE=branding.  I'd love to see suggestions like Mike's and also maybe a default set of bookmarks linking to various important areas of our web, like forums/bugs/planet/packages/sources.  If you're agreeable, I'll even make sure that SpanKY comes up with all of the content... ;p

/me runs...
Comment 5 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-12-11 17:32:22 UTC
Well, why not.
Comment 6 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev 2010-12-01 17:18:43 UTC
We no longer release live-cds.