Hello! A while back, I discovered that mozilla-launcher is causing problems, when the URL contains a "," (comma); eg. http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,447923,00.html
In Knode/KDE, I configured, that firefox is to be used as the browser, so that when I click on a URL, it's loaded in firefox. I did this by modifying .kde/share/config/kdeglobals and adding/changing: [General] BrowserApplication=!/usr/bin/firefox That can also somehow be done with kcontrol. This works well - when I click on a URL, /usr/bin/firefox is run with one parameter, which is the URL. But if the URL contains a comma (like the example URL further up), that site isn't correctly loaded. Instead of http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,447923,00.html it would load http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,447923. Reason is, that firefox executes mozilla-launcher which will eventually run "mozilla-xremote-client openURL($u)". The problem with that is, that openURL accepts two parameters and they are seperated with a ,. So it sees two parameters: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,447923 and 00.html - 00.html is not a valid parameter, though. It should be something like new-window. When I use the "original" Firefox from mozilla.com, there's no such problem. That is so, because the original firefox script doesn't use openURL anymore. I now changed the /usr/bin/firefox script so, that it doesn't use mozilla-launcher anymore. Up to now, I can't find any problems. What problems did I overlook? And what's actually the use of mozilla-launcher with current firefoxes? What would break, if mozilla-launcher is no longer used? Cf. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150404 There's now a patch added to this bug, but I actually object this patch. This patch replaces , in the parameters with %2c (%2c = ,). At a first glance, this patch seemed somewhat fine. Having had a closer "look" at this, I dislike this patch. Reason: Up to now firefox eventually runs the openURL remote command. Users might know this and might make use of this. So a user might call "firefox http://gentoo.org/,new-tab"; to have http://gentoo.org/ opened in a new tab. If this patch is applied, this won't work anymore. I'd like to suggest, that mozilla-launcher is no longer a dependency of firefox and is no longer used, as I fail to see, what advantages m-l brings. Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by "use less memory". -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
