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Diffstat (limited to 'source/xap/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox.SlackBuild')
| -rwxr-xr-x | source/xap/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox.SlackBuild | 31 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/source/xap/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox.SlackBuild b/source/xap/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox.SlackBuild index 0e11e04cc..b4863b518 100755 --- a/source/xap/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox.SlackBuild +++ b/source/xap/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox.SlackBuild @@ -42,6 +42,16 @@ MOZLOCALIZE=${MOZLOCALIZE:-} # "UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 36: ordinal not in range(128)" LANG=C +# Add a shell script to start the firefox binary with MOZ_ALLOW_DOWNGRADE=1 +# to avoid backing up (and disabling) the user profile if a browser downgrade +# is detected. We made it fine for years without this feature, and all the +# feedback we've seen suggests that it is causing more problems than it +# solves. For example, this feature causes a profile reset trying to switch +# between a 32-bit and 64-bit browser on installations that share a common +# /home directory. If you want to build with the stock default behavior, set +# this to something other than "YES": +MOZ_ALLOW_DOWNGRADE=${MOZ_ALLOW_DOWNGRADE:-YES} + # Automatically determine the architecture we're building on: if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then case "$( uname -m )" in @@ -366,6 +376,26 @@ install -m 644 browser/branding/official/default16.png \ # Copy over the LICENSE install -p -c -m 644 LICENSE $PKG/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/firefox-$RELEASEVER/ +# If MOZ_ALLOW_DOWNGRADE=YES, replace the /usr/bin/firefox symlink with a +# shell script that sets the MOZ_ALLOW_DOWNGRADE=1 environment variable so +# that a detected browser downgrade does not reset the user profile: +if [ "$MOZ_ALLOW_DOWNGRADE" = "YES" ]; then + rm -f $PKG/usr/bin/firefox + cat << EOF > $PKG/usr/bin/firefox +#!/bin/sh +# +# Shell script to start Mozilla Firefox. +# +# Don't reset the user profile on a detected browser downgrade: +export MOZ_ALLOW_DOWNGRADE=1 + +# Start Firefox: +exec /usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/firefox/firefox "\$@" +EOF + chown root:root $PKG/usr/bin/firefox + chmod 755 $PKG/usr/bin/firefox +fi + mkdir $PKG/install cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc @@ -375,4 +405,3 @@ if [ -z $MOZLOCALIZE ]; then else /sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $TMP/mozilla-firefox-$VERSION-$ARCH-${BUILD}_$MOZLOCALIZE.txz fi - |