658847 - Implement a generic application initialization function

Status: NEW

(Core :: XPCOM, task, P3)

Description

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

We currently have a lot of stuff repeated across browser/app, mobile/app, suite/app, mail/app, xulrunner/app, and that doesn't make much sense to do so, especially when we need to fix all these to benefit some changes like bug 552864.

We need to have a single, shared application initialization function.

Comment 1

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

Note to self: don't forget this bit from Ted in bug 552864 comment 79:

I love this so much. Does this need to be fixed separately for other apps? I know I already fixed this for Fennec on Linux a while back, but presumably we ought to fix Thunderbird and maybe XULRunner.

While you're here you should change:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/build/binary-location.mk#46
and probably:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/mozapps/installer/linux/rpm/mozilla.desktop#48

Comment 2

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

Bug 1306327 was a first step in this direction. It's still worth doing, but I'm obviously not actively working on this.