Opened 17 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
#14783 closed enhancement (wontfix)
firefox-x11 vs. firefox(-carbon)
Reported by: | Russell.Stringer.Bell.RIP@… | Owned by: | jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia) |
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Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
Component: | ports | Version: | 1.6.0 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Port: | firefox-x11 |
Description
This may not be the right place to ask but:
1) Is it possible to make the firefox-x11 port honor the profile(s) created by firefox(-carbon) (manually installed dmg from mozilla.org)? IINM, firefox-x11 stores this in ~/.mozilla while firefox(-carbon) stores this in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox. Wondering if there is a way to get firefox-x11 to load a profile in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox (its extensions, preferences, bookmarks, cache, cookies, etc.)
2) Have there been any attempts/progress at getting firefox(-carbon) and/or camino into the MacPorts tree? If compiling firefox(-carbon) successfully is too much trouble, how about a binary version (like the default variant use_binary used by the abiword port) that simply uses the dmg from mozilla.org?
Change History (7)
comment:1 Changed 17 years ago by afb@…
comment:2 Changed 16 years ago by vaneijck@…
each profile is a directory in either directory (Library or .mozilla), so you could chose to move either of them to the other and make links (ln -s). Same for the bookmarks.html file inside these profile directories. However, it could cause some problems if you run both -x11 and -carbon at the same time (overwritting eachothers modifications inside the bookmarks.html file).
comment:3 Changed 15 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)
Type: | enhancement → request |
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comment:5 Changed 14 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)
Keywords: | firefox x11 carbon removed |
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Owner: | changed from macports-tickets@… to jeremyhu@… |
Port: | firefox-x11 added |
Type: | request → enhancement |
comment:6 Changed 14 years ago by jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)
This could probably be an off-by-default variant ...
comment:7 Changed 14 years ago by jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)
Resolution: | → wontfix |
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Status: | new → closed |
Actually, I don't like this because the profiles might not be backwards / forwards compatible... anyone wanting to explore this can just use symlinks if they really want to.
firefox-x11 will not and should not look in ~/Library, so you'll have to migrate those settings yourself. Maybe there could be some support to make it easier.
No such ports yet, but they could be added. But I don't think there's any reason to package binaries, so they should build from source code in order to have any use ?