[SM-Discuss] Better approach to firefox script

Jason Flatt jflatt at sourcemage.org
Thu Aug 11 00:42:06 EDT 2005


On Wednesday 10 August 2005 09:29 pm, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> On Aug 10, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) [jblosser-smgl at firinn.org] wrote:
> > On Aug 10, David Brown [dmlb2000 at gmail.com] wrote:
> > > I attach an xfce panel button to the firefox script and find it quite
> > > annoying to keep getting the profile manager when I forget to close
> > > firefox on another desktop.
> > >
> > > I've changed the script in devel to act a little differently and would
> > > like other's opinions on the change in behaviour.
> >
> > I've run firefox like this ever since they got -remote() working in it,
> > and ran mozilla and netscape like that years before.  It much improves
> > the experience IMO, especially if you often run browsers on multiple
> > desktops.
>
> Though on further thought, it's probably more inline with the SMGL
> philosophy to leave the default alone and let people modify their own
> environments if they want this behaviour.  I know I hate it when other
> distros change the defaults to be "helpful".  You could maybe put it in a
> new firefox-window script or something instead.

What about YetAnotherConfigureOption to include it or not?

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Jason Flatt
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