Re: GNU IceCat 2.0.0.10-g1 and use with the alternate profile option

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

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> It won't run with a straight out swap but if the iceweasel script is
> renamed to icecat and the run-iceweasel.sh references within are
> changed to run-icecat.sh , it seems to run fine . Also,  the line
> MOZ_USER_DIR=".mozilla/iceweasel" was changed to
> MOZ_USER_DIR=".mozilla/icecat"  but I couldn't determine if that
> change was required.
Can you please send me directly your file?

> The other difference I ran across is  the new icecat-2.0.0.10-g1
> version defaults to using profiles in the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory
> whereas the previous iceweasel-2.0.0.6-g2 version had created a new
> ~/.gnu/iceweasel directory which seems preferable but maybe was done
> for compatibility between distros??
Are you sure you have your profiles in ~/.mozilla/firefox?  In the
.mozconfig file we are using to compile it, there is specified:
ac_add_options --with-user-appdir=.gnuzilla.  I have this directory
with profile information, can you check if it is present on your
machine too?

> Is the creation and use of the ~/.gnu/icecat profile folder equivalent
> something that can be accomplished without recompiling? If not, could
> you point me to parameters or  source code sections which affects
> this?  Thanks.
As I said you, this value was specified at compile time.  I don't know
if it is possible to choose another one at run time but I don't since
this location contains files used by Firefox/IceCat at startup.

Regards,
Giuseppe