Using xulrunner (Re: USE_MOZILLA=yes for firefox and thunderbird)

[Mikhail T.]

Picking this up 4 years later... Why don't we simply install xulrunner
and make all the applications using it into wrappers? Would not that be
terrific? Smaller packages, less run-time memory consumption for
millions of people, shorter build-times, no patch-duplications?

    -mi

On 11.07.2012 22:51, Jan Beich wrote:
> The rest is simplifying gecko-app ports (firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey)
> by throwing away most patches, shrinking Makefile size and fixing issues like
>
>   $ firefox
>   Could not read application.ini
>   Exit 1
>
> which can be worked around with
>
>   $ /usr/local/lib/libxul/xulrunner-stub -app /usr/local/lib/firefox/application.ini