Comment 52 for bug 7022

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 01:00:36 EST, Eric Dorland writes:
>* Alexander Zangerl (<email address hidden>) wrote:
>> as the workaround known upstream works reasonably well,
>> why not just ship the default /etc/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefoxrc
>> with a line like this added?
>>
>> [ -d $HOME/.mozilla/firefox ] || export XRE_IMPORT_PROFILES=1
>>
>> this works very nicely for me here, and
>> the import profiles hack is only enabled the very first time as well.
>
>Well that would bypass the profile import dialog, which isn't really
>desirable is it?

given the choice of a new installation not starting up at all, and
not getting an old profile imported, i'd choose the working new
installation TYVM.

best of course would be that upstream fixes bugzilla #246313...sigh.

regards
az

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