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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting "Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>:
> On May 17, Andrew [afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com] wrote:
> > Ive noticed that on firefox (since around 1.0, and including 1.0.4)
> > if I load the preferences dialog my selections aren't reflected in the
> > dialog. For example in Advanced -> Security, all three checkboxes (ssl 2,
> > ssl 3 and tls) are always unchecked. If I check them, click okay then
> > reload the preferences the checkboxes are still unchecked. It appears
> > that when I choose certain settings they are remembered, eg, ssl does
> > work, just usually not present in the dialog.  I've tried firefox-bin
> > and it doesnt seem to have this problem. Has anyone else seen this? If
> > so I'll file a bug and we can compare notes.
>
> I've had issues recently with ~/.mozilla/plugins not working until I linked
> them into ~/.firefox/plugins, and then more issues with various settings
> not persisting between sessions.  I suspect the newer versions may be less
> tolerant of the use of both the .mozilla and .firefox directories.  (Aren't
> we doing something in the build to force this to get setup the way it is?
> I'm sure it's something firefox documents, but we know about their bit
> rot.)

It's probably this flag I added to ./configure back in the 1.0 days:
--with-user-appdir=.firefox

If people have problems would like to try building firefox without that and 
see
if it fixes their problems then let us know, but it's been working okay for me
(other than having to start firefox a few times after an update, but I believe
that was the case before that flag was added).

-sandalle

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