wishlist: update-alternatives support for /usr/bin/firefox

[Egon Willighagen]

Because several add-on plugins I use often are not yet supporting FF3, it would be nice if update-alternatives would be used to configure the default version. Currently this is FF3, which I will not use until my favorite add-ons are ported (without those add-ons, I'd use Konqueror).

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

what are your preferred extensions?

[Egon Willighagen (egonw)]

/usr/bin/firefox pointing to /etc/alternatives/java, and as alternatives /usr/bin/firefox-2 and /usr/bin/firefox-3.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

not a firefox-extensions issue.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

i don't think that we will do this, but i'll think about it.

[DMG46664 (danielmgerson)]

I don't understand why point at /etc/alternatives/java??

But I'd love support for two firefoxes installed at once.
and use galternatives, update-alternatives to switch between them.
There are a number of plugins that don't work yet in firefox 3 and it's SLOW!!

+1

[DMG46664 (danielmgerson)]

Just to make a note:
I'm not asking for Konqueror. Specifically I'm asking for firefox 2.

[Robert Mens (robert-0xdeadbeef)]

I would also like to see this, it is rather weird that there isn't a choice for firefox to switch
between firefox-2 and firefox-3 while for example java provides alternatives for multiple versions.

[DMG46664 (danielmgerson)]

I've found that you can do this yourself by running these commands, although it would be nice to set it up by default.

sudo apt-get install firefox-2 firefox-2-gnome-support
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/firefox firefox /usr/bin/firefox-3 50
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/firefox firefox /usr/bin/firefox-2 100

[Robert Mens (robert-0xdeadbeef)]

That doesn't handle the firefox.desktop files though, as they currently need to be modified otherwise StartupWMClass is incorrect, causing problems with startup notification (note that currently the firefox-2.desktop file has this setting incorrect, see bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223753 for more information)

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:51:39PM -0000, Robert Mens wrote:
> That doesn't handle the firefox.desktop files though, as they currently
> need to be modified otherwise StartupWMClass is incorrect, causing
> problems with startup notification (note that currently the
> firefox-2.desktop file has this setting incorrect, see bug
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223753 for more information)
>

 right. we wont implement this wishlist bug

 affects ubuntu/firefox
 status wontfix

 affects ubuntu/firefox-3.0
 status wontfix

 - Alexander