tqh ([info]tqh) wrote in [info]bezilla,
@ 2004-12-19 16:48:00
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Bye Bye startup problems
If someone hasn't noticed I've been extremly buzy lately.

Most of it seems to be regarding startup problems. Here is a run down of what's happened:
* Firefox profile migration should not crash anymore, which means no more crash on first launch.
* Mozilla should start up from script. (Coincidence that I saw that while I was trying to fix download prefs and downloadmanager).
* And here is a new one: I've so far applied a firefox.rsrc before distributing the Firefox application. It does several things, setting up supported types, Firefox icon and application flags. The only problem is that one of those flags are 'single launch' which would work great IFF (if and only if) we didn't have internal restarts of the application on migration and other scenarios. Maybe you can guess the outcome of this, yes that's right, it doesn't restart because there is already one instance running.

Other than that I have 5-10 other bugs I (think I) have squashed as well. The only thing left regarding startups is how to setup everything so we can get rid of that script without side-effects.

Thanks to nielx, fyysik, Haiku devs and 'Java'-development team for bringing my development MOJO back :)



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yay!
[info]myob
2004-12-19 05:23 pm UTC (link)
Is the firefox starting issue fixed with or without the native app patch?

Either way, it'll be great to have a Firefox that starts for everyone. Great work!

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Re: yay!
[info]tqh
2004-12-19 08:29 pm UTC (link)
I'm not sure if it makes any difference. I've changed mine to not use execve as it leaves zombie processes belonging to the parent (Terminal, maybe Deskbar) and if you have the 'Single launch' flag that means no more Firefox until Terminal or Deskbar (maybe) is killed.

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