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=== Version 0.3 ===
For 0.3 we have modified our Linux script, and spent much of our time getting familiar with the MAC OS system, since neither if us has ever used a mac before. We also investigated the possibility of running ONE script to start Firefox on all three platforms, but found that this was not feasible. We have a proof of concept for MacOS, in that we directly copied the installed Firefox onto our flash drive, as we couldn't get the Web version running.
Initially we were working with the Mac release of Firefox from the official website. There was some learning curve to the Mac, so we had invested alot of time just fooling around with the operating system. Even just figuring out the different responses the system did combined with keys took some time. It didn't really help too much, and even confused us further when one Mac behaved differently from another. At some point we realized that the installer file from Firefox's site was actually behaving like an image than really installing the files on to the system. With that in mind we stumbled across how to extract the actual contents and put it on our USB drive.
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Our Mac script RC1 is as follows:(ignore the comments - just for our future reference/reminder)
#!/bin/bash echo "Starting Linux Firefox From USB"
progname="$0"
curdir=`dirname "$progname"`
progbase=`basename "$progname"`
#echo "progname - whole path and name= " $progname
#echo "curdir - directory!! = " $curdir
#echo "progbase - script name = " $progbase
batchpath=${BASH_SOURCE%/*}
# script_path=$0
# [ -e "$script_path" ] || script_path=$(command -v -- "$0")
# echo $script_path
# echo $batchpath
#echo $batchpath
$curdir/MACOS/firefox --no-remote -profile $curdir/Profiles/UniversalProfile '''<font color="red"><----this line returns the current directory of the shell script</font>'''
== Project Leader(s) ==
== Project Contributor(s) ==
== Contributions ==
Our contributions were limited to the "soft" variety for our class mates, because we were all new to this and our projects were very different. Moral
support and helping each other while doing labs.
We used Bugzilla on a couple of occasions to contribute to the community, twice in particular to users who had lost their Profiles. I was bug watching several "profile" bugs and responded to these users with information on how to recover their profiles on Windows systems.
== Miscellaneous links and stuff ==
