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On 2011-10-14T15:38:27+00:00 Chris Coulson wrote:

Firefox still depends on libgnome and libgnomeui (specifically,
GnomeClient - see toolkit/xre/nsNativeAppSupportUnix.cpp) for talking to
the session manager. The problem with this is:

1) Those are both deprecated, and have been for a long time
2) They have quite heavy dependencies on a lot of other deprecated libraries (orbit, bonobo, gnomevfs, gconf, glade, gnomecanvas)

We dropped these entirely from the default install in Ubuntu, and this
now results in Firefox not shutting down cleanly when users log out of
their session (leading to the "Well, this is embarassing" screen when
they next start Firefox.

Unfortunately, there isn't really a good replacement for GnomeClient,
but the options are:

1) Use the gnome-session DBus interface directly. However, this won't work outside of gnome.
2) Use libsm directly to talk to the session managers xsmp interface, rather than relying on a higher level library. This is more work, but lighter dependencies and would work outside of gnome too.
3) Embed a copy of EggSMClient from http://git.gnome.org/browse/libegg/tree/libegg/ , which has a xsmp backend and is light on dependencies (just libsm AFAICT)

Gnome applications seem to do a combination of 1 and 3, but I think
option 1 is a non-starter for us, as the dbus interface is completely
gnome-specific and doesn't have any API stability guarantees. The only
software I know which does 2 is metacity.

What do other people think?

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/867424/comments/8


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** Changed in: firefox
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Title:
  Oneric: On boot up Firefox always displays the “Well, This Is
  Embarrassing” screen.

Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser:
  Confirmed
Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “firefox” source package in Oneiric:
  Triaged
Status in “thunderbird” source package in Oneiric:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  This happens on every restart or boot. Firefox fails to load previous
  tabs.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: firefox 7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
  AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
  AplayDevices: aplay: device_list:240: no soundcards found...
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  ArecordDevices: arecord: device_list:240: no soundcards found...
  AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/snd/controlC0', '/dev/snd/hwC0D0', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0c', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D1p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D2c', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
  BuildID: 20110929022028
  CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  Channel: release
  Date: Tue Oct  4 13:15:01 2011
  ForcedLayersAccel: False
  IfupdownConfig:
   auto lo
   iface lo inet loopback
  IncompatibleExtensions: NoScript - ID={73a6fe31-595d-460b-a920-fcc0f8843232}, Version=2.1.4rc2, minVersion=1.9a2, maxVersion=1.9.6, Location=app-profile, Type=extension, Active=Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110910)
  IpRoute:
   default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0  proto static 
   169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0  scope link  metric 1000 
   192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.1.4  metric 1
  IwConfig:
   lo        no wireless extensions.
   
   eth0      no wireless extensions.
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=7.0.1/20110929022028 (Running)
  RfKill:
   
  RunningIncompatibleAddons: True
  SourcePackage: firefox
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserJS: general.useragent.vendor - Firefox
  dmi.bios.date: 01/23/2008
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: 0304
  dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.board.name: M3A78-EH
  dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
  dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
  dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0304:bd01/23/2008:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnM3A78-EH:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
  dmi.product.name: System Product Name
  dmi.product.version: System Version
  dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer

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