[Users] Firefox and Claws Mail

[Ian Zimmerman]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:17:08 +0100
Colin Leroy <colin at colino.net> wrote:

Colin> I disagree. Such things should not be hardcoded because they may
Colin> vary from machine to machine, even if they're using the same
Colin> Claws-Mail binary.

Most often the binary will be provided by the distribution which - it is
hoped - has a unified policy in this respect.

Colin> What is highly asking-for-trouble, though, is redefining
Colin> variables such as $TMPDIR inside a single user session. Things
Colin> launched from a GUI should have the same basic environment.

Well the problem here is clearly Firefox _is_ asking-for-trouble in
precisely this manner, without the user having a say over it (I checked
the 'about:config' pseudo URL and there is nothing to set this).  Unless
of course wwp him/herself sets this in some Firefox wrapper script.

wwp, what is your source for Firefox?  Is it provided by your
distribution, hand-compiled, or just binary downloaded from mozilla
site?

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