[Users] Firefox and Claws Mail

[John Jason Jordan]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:22:24 -0800
Ian Zimmerman <itz at buug.org> dijo:

>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?

I can't speak for wwp, but my Firefox came with Fedora 11, upgraded
various times to now Fedora 16, x86_64, which now provides Firefox 18.0.