298491 - contrib directory / unix startup example

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[jakobi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

The default startup script is a bit uncomfortable.

The script above does provide some thunderbird
integration and allows to use shorter urls with
some heuristics to sanely handle file:// urls. 

When looking for a specific place for contrib
sw, I found nothing.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
A the wrapper?
1. using the original firefox/firefox script with a file:// url

B where's contrib: user-provided software?
1. install, look for a contrib directory ...
2. search mozilla.org
3. google mozilla sites ...

Actual Results:  
A1. you manually open the file using the menu, as 
   you need to really type a long url to open a file://
   even if it's in the current directory.

B1. - 3. no contrib directories to be found where such scripts
   are placed centrally (excepting extensions)

repository for contributed scripts

Expected Results:  
A1-> it should have made some attempt to allow more flexible
    command lines, e.g. by my script I referenced above

B1-3: there should be some repository in the tarball or on the ftp
    site for people to place scripts. In addition it should be
    referenced in firefox / thunderbird faqs.

    the mozillazine forums IMHO aren't suitable for this.

my example startup wrapper (unix/shell/perl) is
at http://www.oa.shuttle.de/kefk/tmp/firefox.
It just calls the standard firefox*/firefox and
thunderbird*/thunderbird scripts as often as 
necessary with modified arguments :).

It's a bit raw, but it's what I'm using all
the time and what's making working with the
browser less painful (I'm not a gui-kind of
person...).

You're welcome to request changes or
place a copy wherever you like.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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