Comment 17 for bug 13214
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(In reply to comment #10)
> (In reply to comment #9)
> > We then give GNOME the name of our own
> > executable to run the next time. The way we get this executable is very
> > curious, we can't run the binary directly because Firefox launches through a
> > shell script. So we make an app-specific pref with the name of the shell script
> > to execute from the same directory as the binary.
>
> I think you should be able to just strip the "-bin" off the binary name and use
> that instead of having a pref. This seems to be what the crash reporter does,
> and it seems better for other gecko-based apps.
>
I suggested that, but Roc said that it sounded far too hackish and he suggested this approach instead. This approach is more flexible but requires more maintenance of prefs...