Re: [orca-list] Moving forward on Firefox

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

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On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 01:36:20PM -0400, Jacob Schmude wrote:
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> Hi Steve
> This does suggest to me that the bug is actually in one of the packages
> that go along with Firefox, such as Xulrunner or Gecko. Since Ubuntu
> Lucid is also seeing this with their Firefox 3.6 packages this makes me
> suspect it even more. The Mozilla binaries do not use external gecko or
> xul packages but use their own latest versions provided with them. For
> the bookmarks bug my first suspect would be Xulrunner since that's what
> renders and controls the dialogs.

That's very interesting about those other external resources.  I have
indeed seen xulrunner listed as a package dependency but never really
knew it's role in this game.  It's also interesting that Mozilla uses
their own facilities for these things.  Makes me consider using the
Mozilla versions instead for now on.  I've used Mozilla versions in
the past with decent success.

> One note though: I'd suggest installing the Mozilla binaries under your
> home directory instead of /usr/local/lib. This way they will
> automatically update properly without you having to manually run them as
> root and check.

Good point; I was thinking about doing that  Since I don't have
anyother users on this box that would use those versions.
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