Re: Thunderbird 1.5 for solaris available on mozilla.org

Neal A. Lucier wrote:
> Michael Tosch wrote:
> 
>> Unlike our Thunderbird 1.0.4 built from the sources, this binary
>> distribution cannot start multiple instances of Thunderbird 1.5.
>>
>> If I do so, the second instance of Thunderbird hangs.
>> If I then exit the first instance, the second instance produces
>> a popup saying:
>> "Thunderbird is already running, but is not responding".
>>
>> The same happens if I have specified thunderbird in firefox as
>> network.protocol-handler.app.mailto
>> and I click on a "mailto:" link.
>>
>> Also vise versa, one cannot start multiple instances of
>> Firefox 1.5.
>> A command "firefox http://www.sun.com" hangs, and if the first
>> instance is quit, there comes the popup
>> "Firefox is already running, but is not responding".
>>
>> Our OS:
>> SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-29 sun4u sparc
>>
>>
> 
> I have the same experience, and I'm pretty sure it is because TB 1.5 and 
> FF 1.5 were compiled by the Sun Beijing Team with GTK1 support instead 
> of GTK2 support.  They compiled all 1.0.x release with GTK2 support, and 
> the readme does not explain the reasoning behind switching to GTK1 with 
> the 1.5 release.  (Alan DuBoff and John Weeks used to maintain builds 
> for solaris 2.8 linked against GTK1.)
> 
> I have found the GTK1 libraries included in /usr/sfw are much buggier 
> than the GTK2 libraries included in /usr.  (There are a few UI bugs when 
> FF and TB are compiled against GTK2, but they are much less severe than 
> when compiled against GTK1, and the benefits of GTK2 far outweigh the UI 
> problems.)
> 
> Also if you use GNOME 2.0 on Solaris 8 or 9 or JDS on Solaris 10, a GTK1 
> app cannot due a number of things that you would expect a GNOME app to 
> do; communicate intelligently with other GNOME 2.x apps (open a link in 
> firefox from thunderbird), correctly interact with gconfd to register 
> themselves as the "default application", look up mime type 
> registrations, or determine if a copy is already running and if so 
> interact with it.
> 
> Another benefit of using the solaris2.8-gtk2 builds, was that if you ran 
> them on a system that had a later version of GNOME (Solaris 10 FCS for 
> example) they share a more consistent look and feel with the rest of the 
> GUI, and they are not subject to the same bugs that the Solaris 8/9 
> GNOME 2.0.x implementations have; however, the solaris2.8-gtk1 builds 
> have all same problems on Solaris 10 that they have on Solaris 8 or 9. 
> Admittedly the solaris 10 builds use gtk2.
> 
> Neal

We are not running GNOME here, but CDE and Openwindows(olvwm).
The gconfd mechanism does not exist.
Perhaps the 1.5 versions only support GNOME mechanism and not the
prefs.js="network.protocol-handler.app.mailto" mechanism?

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Michael Tosch @ hp : com