Re: [gnome-web-photo] Do not alter firefox settings

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le mardi 02 décembre 2008, à 15:05 +0100, Christian Persch a écrit :
> Hi;
> 
> Le Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:23:29 +0100,
> Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> a écrit :
> > We have a patch in openSUSE for
> > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444682
> > I must admit I'm blindly trusting Wolfgang here, but if it's just for
> > proxy settings and if xulrunner 1.9 reads proxy settings from gconf,
> > that should be fine.
> 
> The proxy does indeed seem to be taken from GConf through other means
> in gecko 1.9 (nsUnixSystemProxySettings.cpp), so the patch looks ok to
> me. If you can confirm that with a non-suse xulrunner (e.g. ubuntu's),
> it's ok to commit the patch with a checkin comment explaining the
> issue.

Well I've tested it there and it works too. But I don't have a proxy so,
not sure the test is relevant... If you think it is, I'll commit.

> I'm rather unsatisfied with the cited bug report though; there's no
> explanation at all how setting a pref in one xulrunner-using
> application with its own profile could affect the running instance of
> firefox et al.
> 
> As near as I could find, this is caused by a non-standard
> patch in suse's xulrunner package (mozilla-nss-shared-db.patch), but
> even then this should only affect the NSS db, not the cookies db. Also
> there's no explanation _how_ setting this specific pref causes the bug.

Thanks, I'll forward your comment! Wolfgang may send more details about
all this.

Vincent

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