ALL things related to firefox/thunderbird 1.5!

[Erlend]

If I run firefox from my usual user account (say "myuser"), then open a terminal and do:

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su anotheruser
firefox

The firefox that's opened uses myuser's profile!

Is this intentional? It's slightly annoying because I have a second account I use for testing firefox extensions etc.

If I close firefox that myuser is running, the then open firefox from the anotheruser terminal it opens fine, and uses anotheruser's profile.

I'm running mozilla-firefox-1.5-r4. Help -> About calls it "Deer Park".

Thanks,

Erlend

[SimonKellett]

If I run firefox from my usual user account (say "myuser"), then open a terminal and do:

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su anotheruser
firefox

The firefox that's opened uses myuser's profile!

Same here using FF 1.5 final.

[StringCheesian]

If I run firefox from my usual user account (say "myuser"), then open a terminal and do:

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su anotheruser
firefox

The firefox that's opened uses myuser's profile!

Same here using FF 1.5 final.

Try it with "su - anotheruser". "su -" works as expected here.

The optional argument - may be used to provide an environment similar to what the user would expect had the user logged in directly.

So I guess just plain "su" keeps (some of?) the original user's environment variables.

[Erlend]

Try it with "su - anotheruser". "su -" works as expected here.

That works thanks!

[SimonKellett]

Try it with "su - anotheruser". "su -" works as expected here.

But this is probably not the best thing security wise: "su -" will run firefox as root.

And here it results is the same symptom: using the existing browser.

[Erlend]

But this is probably not the best thing security wise: "su -" will run firefox as root.

No, he means (in a virtual terminal):

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su - anotheruser

then when you run firefox from that virtual terminal it runs with anotheruser's profile.

[XenoTerraCide]

su run by it's self will run as root. but if you run su username you will switch to that user. I believe su is short for switch user.

[SimonKellett]

If I run firefox from my usual user account (say "myuser"), then open a terminal and do:

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su anotheruser
firefox

The firefox that's opened uses myuser's profile!

Same here using FF 1.5 final.

Try it with "su - anotheruser". "su -" works as expected here.

Sorry: just realised I misread the original post: on my machine I run "su - anotheruser" (ie with the dash), start Firefox, and it uses the already running Firefox. So this is slightly different to the original.
(It worked fine before I upgraded to 1.5.)

[L3mP]

Now it seems from

Linux2.6_x86_glibc_PTH_OPT.OBJ/shlibsign: /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/libnss3.so: version `NSS_3.10' not found (required by Linux2.6_x86_glibc_PTH_OPT.OBJ/shlibsign)

the build uses a library, which is from an earlier firefox. That's why my recommendation is to unmerge the older firefox and see if this helps.

Thanks.. I'll try it out now.. I'll get back later

I got it corrected and firefox compiled nicely it's now working as it should...
The problem was that I had to unmerge my old version first before trying to emerge firefox 1.5
Problem is now solved.. Thanks alot to Gergan Penkov for his advise and patience as I overlooked his first advise at first.

[mayday147]

My instance of firefox-1.5-r4 is consuming about ~70% CPU all the time and it's quite unusable some times. What could be the problem?

[GNUtritious]

How can I start FF with another profile when FF is already running?

Try:

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export MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1

[heavyt]

How can I start FF with another profile when FF is already running?

Try:

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export MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1

Could you please explain how that is done, because when I tried

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export MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1

FF is still using only one profile.

[GNUtritious]

Could you please explain how that is done, because when I tried

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export MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1

FF is still using only one profile.

Sure, you can put this inside your ~/.bashrc or in /usr/bin/firefox-bin, among other locations. If you want to simply test it, try:

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MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 firefox -ProfileManager

[heavyt]

Could you please explain how that is done, because when I tried

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export MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1

FF is still using only one profile.

Sure, you can put this inside your ~/.bashrc or in /usr/bin/firefox-bin, among other locations. If you want to simply test it, try:

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MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 firefox -ProfileManager

OK this is what I get:

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 ~$ MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 firefox -ProfileManager
firefox-bin exited with non-zero status (1)
~$

Something is not right.

[GNUtritious]

OK this is what I get:

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 ~$ MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 firefox -ProfileManager
firefox-bin exited with non-zero status (1)
~$

Something is not right.

This could be due to an issue with a profile. Try renaming your .mozilla directory and creating two new profiles. Hope it works for you.

[heavyt]

Thanks for your help, it did not work. Going to downgrade FF to a version that has what I need.

[SimonKellett]

How can I start FF with another profile when FF is already running?

Try:

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export MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1

Thanks: worked for me
(but why did my setup work without this, before my upgrade to 1.5 ?)

[Anarchy]

As some of you have noticed major changes are coming to firefox in the tree. Well I am gonna let ya test what will hopefully be added on the 6th or 7th of this month. I am gonna have firefox/thunderbird depend on system nss/nspr packages, linguas has been addressed (works from reports I have), and I am chaning out yet another patch in favor or visibility. This has increased speed of page rendering. So test the overlay and let me know how it goes. http://dev.gentoo.org/~anarchy/overlay/ ... lay.tar.gz

just untar to your overlay it will create create eclass,mail-clients,and www-clients from there simply update hope ya enjoy.

[sian]

Thunderbird in your overlay did not take into account linguas.

Firefox did not compile :

* Running aclocal ... [ !! ]

* Failed Running aclocal !
*
* Include in your bugreport the contents of:
*
* /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r7/temp/aclocal-13273.out


!!! ERROR: www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r7 failed.

[wuno]

Firefox did not compile :

* Running aclocal ... [ !! ]

* Failed Running aclocal !
*
* Include in your bugreport the contents of:
*
* /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r7/temp/aclocal-13273.out


!!! ERROR: www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r7 failed.

I found the same, hadn't yet time to contact Anarchy directly. When I put

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cd ${S}

one line above

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eautoreconf

it works (after a new digest)
and happy new year to all

[Anarchy]

Thunderbird in your overlay did not take into account linguas.

I will not be adding linguas support until final is released.

[Anarchy]

Firefox did not compile :

* Running aclocal ... [ !! ]

* Failed Running aclocal !
*
* Include in your bugreport the contents of:
*
* /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r7/temp/aclocal-13273.out


!!! ERROR: www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r7 failed.

I found the same, hadn't yet time to contact Anarchy directly. When I put

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cd ${S}

one line above

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eautoreconf

it works (after a new digest)
and happy new year to all

This does not make much sence as your already in ${S} right from the get go with patching. If you would please retest but I do not see any problem.

[wuno]

I found the same, hadn't yet time to contact Anarchy directly. When I put

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cd ${S}

one line above

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eautoreconf

it works (after a new digest)
and happy new year to all

This does not make much sence as your already in ${S} right from the get go with patching. If you would please retest but I do not see any problem.

Yeah, that's what I thought also and indeed in the TB ebuild it works as expected, but in FF it tries to run autoconf in ${WORKDIR} for some reason I don't know. There are some other issues with portage-2.1_pre3-r1 (for instance it doesn't accept ${DISTDIR}/cvs-src as ECVS_TOP_DIR bug 117440) maybe this is related.

[Anarchy]

>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking firefox-1.5-source.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r7/work
* Applying firefox-1.1-nss-system-nspr.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying firefox-1.5-with-system-nss.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying firefox-1.5-visibility-check.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying firefox-1.5-visibility-fix.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying mozilla-hppa.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying mozilla-firefox-1.1a2-ia64.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying mozilla-jslibmath-alpha.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying firefox-gentoo-pkgconfig.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying firefox-nopangoxft.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying firefox-1.1-uriloader.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying embed-typeaheadfind-1.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying mozilla-firefox-1.5-gtk.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying firefox-1.5-safetooltip.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying mozilla-rpath-1.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying mozilla-1.7.10-nsplugins-v2.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying mozilla-firefox-1.5-history.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying mozilla-firefox-1.5-mork.patch ... [ ok ]
* Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r7/work/mozilla' ... [ ok ]
>>> Source unpacked...


That is with portage 2.1_pre3-r1 as you can see it is already running eautoreconf ${S} as it should be.

[wuno]

>>> Unpacking source...
* Applying mozilla-firefox-1.5-mork.patch ... [ ok ]
* Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r7/work/mozilla' ... [ ok ]
>>> Source unpacked...
That is with portage 2.1_pre3-r1 as you can see it is already running eautoreconf ${S} as it should be.

Here's mine
* Applying mozilla-firefox-1.5-mork.patch ... [ ok ]
>>> Unpacking de.xpi to /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r7/work/mozilla
* Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r7/work' [ !! ]
* Running aclocal...

* Failed Running aclocal !

If its not portage, it seems to be the unpacking of the language-pack that changes the directory.

Edit: When I move the language-pack unpack lines upwards directly after the source unpack it works
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking firefox-1.5-source.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r7/work
>>> Unpacking de.xpi to /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r7/work
* Applying firefox-1.1-nss-system-nspr.patch ... [ ok ]
...
* Applying mozilla-firefox-1.5-mork.patch ... [ ok ]
* Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r7/work/mozilla' ... [ ok ]
>>> Source unpacked...