452486 - Create components when we actually have a profile

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

xpcom-startup and app-startup happen to early, and you aren't given a profile.  Currently, anyone who needs a profile has to be created then, and then register an observer for profile-after-change.  We can simplify this by just creating them if they register with the category manager at this time.

Comment 1

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Attachment: v1.0

This does the trick, but I'm not sure if it's what bsmedberg is going to want.

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Not particularly wanting notification proliferation, but I wonder if a different named notification would be better to separate out the ways you register for it?

Comment 3

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Not particularly wanting notification proliferation, but I wonder if a
> different named notification would be better to separate out the ways you
> register for it?
I'm going to assume that bsmedberg doesn't think it matters either way?

Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I prefer to keep the names the same, actually.

Comment 5

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Pushed to mozilla-central:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/7a679b9335f3

Comment 6

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Added a note about this here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Observer_Notifications#Application_startup