Now that mozilla-launcher is a hard dependency on at least mozilla-firebird, it could really use some documentation as what I'm guessing is supposed to work doesn't. mozilla-launcher returns unknown browser mozilla-launcher firefox returns unknown browser apparently this also resulted in mozilla-firebox no longer having the /usr/bin/firefox file. can we get some advanced warning when behaviors are going to change like this? And can this also been an optional dependency, especially fo r those who only use one mozilla product?
After talking with agriffis on IRC, the only part of this that might still be valid is documentation. Feel free to keep it open for that or close it out.
The documentation is a good idea. I'll keep this open until I put a comment at the top of the script, and I might even add a man-page to explain the purpose of the script.
Another thought on this bug... could move mozilla-launcher to /usr/lib/mozilla-launcher/mozilla-launcher so that it's not in the PATH
mozilla-firefox-bin's /usr/bin/firefox hasn't been updated to use this script... it's kinda moot to include the dependency for mozilla-launcher if you're not going to use it. and what happens if i like to have a symlink called mozilla that points to firefox (my current setup)? i do this because gnome 2.4 and other apps find mozilla rather than firefox...
oh.. and i'd like vote against creating a whole directory for just a little script (<a href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46183#c3">#3</a>).
I have the same problem with mozilla-launcher. I have firefox installed and when I launch mozilla-launcher it gives the unknown browser error. Looking at the script, it would appear that it needs to find firefox-bin in /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox directory. I have that: /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/firefox /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/firefox-bin This is firefox built from sources, not the prebuilt bin version. I thought that the problem was that it was greping for Firefox-bin and that the capitalization was the error, but that does not seem to be a problem. The problem might be that I do not actually have any idea what this script is supposed to accomplish. It looks like you should be able to run it to launch mozilla where needed, which might cure some odd problems that I am having, but I don't know if there are any environment variables to set up, or whether this is the actual usage of the script. Any ideas on why this is not detecting firefox, or what I am doing wrong with it?
You aren't supposed to ever run "mozilla-launcher". If you look in /usr/bin, you'll see that you (should) have a symlink firefox -> mozilla-launcher. You should by calling it via the firefox symlink. Does that help?
Yes, it helps. It's just that people want their system to be somewhat clean and at first sight this mozilla-launcher seems like a dependency without any documentation (about its purpose) and doesn't work on trying the executable. Makes people angry.
okay, I moved mozilla-launcher to /usr/libexec where it can live without confusing people.
