[Bug 472882] Re: firefox-3.0 executable not provided by firefox-3.0 or firefox-3.5 packages (Karmic)

[Jonathan Hayward]

This entails a noteworthy loss of functionality for me as 3.0 lets me do
something valuable not working in 3.5.4.

I heavily use a modified Ajaxterm (downloads from
http://JonathansCorner.com/terminal/ ), more than other terminals.

One major function is pasting text into the terminal session, which only
works for Ajaxterm if the script is allowed to access the clipboard.
Firefox disallows this by default, but 3.0.x allows this to be turned on
per instructions at
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Granting_JavaScript_access_to_the_clipboard .
So far no attempt to do this under 3.5.4 has succeeded; see
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=1570755&p=7901575#p7901575
for forum discussion and
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=526237 for a bug that has
so far not been acted on.

Could this design be revised, possibly as an enhancement request for a
package that in fact installs Firefox 3.0.x? I don't know how many
people use my modifications to Ajaxterm at
http://JonathansCorner.com/terminal/ , but this design decision has the
implication that Ajaxterm users have no way to paste from a Firefox
installed via the package manager, which is not a trivial matter.

** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #526237
   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=526237

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firefox-3.0 executable not provided by firefox-3.0 or firefox-3.5 packages (Karmic)
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