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== Project Details ==
=== Version 0.1 ===
set ff=firefox
set profile=Profiles\q928eerv.default
set q="
set profileDir=%q%%currDir%%profile%%q%
set total=%ff% -profile %profileDir%
echo currDir = %currDir%
echo Exit 0
Our next step is to study shell scripting to get the same effect for Firefox on Linux. The Linux distribution also has a default start up script, that we hope take advantage of. We confirmed that Linux Firefox can read the same universal profile structure that we have designed. Our next goal is to duplicate the same behavior on Linux as we have for Windows.
=== Version 0.2 ===
For 0.2 we have created a linux script, and after much experimentaiton, and learning just a tad about shell scripting, we found several ways to
get the active directory, eventually using code that was already in the mozilla shell script. Our problem was that the firefox binary has a dependency on libstc++5, and was blowing up on Linux distros that were using libstc++ 6, which include almost all distro's. Our quick fix solution
was to add libstc++5 to our stick, and this indeed solved the problem for now. We hope to be able to set the library paths up so that Firefox on a stick will first search the desktop system, then our stick, for all the shared libraries.
Our Linux script is as follows:
#!/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 = " $progbase
# Testing stuff
# batchpath=${BASH_SOURCE%/*}
# script_path=$0
# [ -e "$script_path" ] || script_path=$(command -v -- "$0")
# echo $script_path
$curdir/linux/firefox --no-remote -profile $curdir/Profiles/UniversalProfile '''<font color="red"><----this line returns the current directory of the shell script</font>'''
We asked Ben Hearsum about Firefox using the libstc++ 5 libraries, and he was going to look into it for us. We had also tried doing a Static build of Firefox, which was successful, but it wasn't static enough. Our thoughts were that it might be worth the performance hit to have one huge Firefox binary, that would be totally self reliant, but apparently that isn't a viable option. We have tested our libstc++5 version on Fedora8 at Seneca, as well as on a couple other distro's such as Ubuntu, fedora7, and it works well, without the need to do an apt-get.
The link to all of our files is :
http://downloads.sykokillers.com/mozilla/Firefoxes_Official_0.2.zip
=== 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.
Having learned that MacOS is working with Linux as its backbone, we modified our Unix script to work for the Mac Firefox. Now we when we executed Firefox for Mac from the USB drive the program hung unexpectedly. It took a long time for the first window to appear and then we could not go any further. In the end we got a working Mac Firefox by taking it off of an existing install.
This is a little script we were playing with to isolate the particular flavor of the OS on Windows. If we have to make any platform specific changes we can add it to the specific OS in question.
@echo off
ver | find "2003" > nul
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 goto ver_2003
ver | find "XP" > nul
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 goto ver_xp
ver | find "2000" > nul
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 goto ver_2000
ver | find "NT" > nul
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 goto ver_nt
echo Machine undetermined.
goto exit
:ver_2003
:Run Windows 2003-specific commands here.
echo Windows 2003
goto exit
:ver_xp
:Run Windows XP-specific commands here.
echo Windows XP
goto exit
:ver_2000
:Run Windows 2000-specific commands here.
echo Windows 2000
goto exit
:ver_nt
:Run Windows NT-specific commands here.
echo Windows NT
goto exit
:exit
pause
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>'''
Get the 0.3 release here: http://downloads.sykokillers.com/mozilla/Firefoxes_0.3_RC1.zip
== Project Leader(s) ==
== Project Contributor(s) ==
http://pastebin.mozilla.org/ - a way to collaborate on debugging code snippets, put code of compile results in the box, post it, then share the link for others on IRC to see.
<br /> http://wiki.mozilla.org/Breakpad
<br /> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPInstall
<br /> 5. Bug 230032 � Profile completely overwritten including passwords and bookmarks
'''Misc Stuff and Thingsrandom links'''
<br />http://mxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/browser/app/mozilla.in
<br />http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla1.8.0/source/toolkit/profile/src/nsToolkitProfileService.cpp#774
<br />https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211628
<br />http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490909.aspx
0.2 links <br/>
Linux Script stuff <br/>
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/how-can-a-shell-script-determine-its-own-location-when-being-sourced-620704/
http://www.webservertalk.com/archive109-2006-9-1678618.html
http://www.issociate.de/board/post/285661/Bash_script_own_path.html .. more on finding the scrip path
linux script that works....must resolve the missing shared libraries!!!
progname="$0"
curdir=`dirname "$progname"`
progbase=`basename "$progname"`
echo "progname - whole path and name= " $progname
echo "curdir - directory!! = " $curdir
echo "progbase - script name = " $progbase
Static Build
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/How_to_create_a_static_build_61213.html
== Project News ==