Comment 10 for bug 217812

That is not want I meant. Other Distros are able to build the Firefox in that way, that third party binary components are able to run. I think it is better, if the Ubuntu Firefox is build the "compatible" way. The Ubuntu Thunderbird for example is build the "compatible" way. That means that the Ubuntu maintainers of Thunderbird and Firefox have different build strategies. The Thunderbird strategy is better in my opinion, because it allows third party components.

The work around, to start the Firefox from the Thunderbird makes another library available. That shows the different dependencies of Thunderbird and Firefox in the Ubuntu build.

All third party components are normally build to work in the official Mozilla releases. Firefox and Thunderbird have no xulrunner dependency in that case. In Ubuntu the firefox-3.0 has a dependency on xulrunner-1.9. thunderbird has not.

I hope this posting is a bit better understandable.