[SunRay-Users] Firefox warning message in CAM/kiosk mode

[Cyrille Moureaux]

Hi,

Craig Bender wrote:

> As I wrote before, I'm not a fan of using prototypes for firefox.  You 
> should use -CreateProfile to launch firefox and make your wanted 
> changes to the main firefox config files.

There might be a bit of a chicken-and-egg issue here, before the 
application is started there are no files to modify, and once it's 
started it's too late to modify them for that session.

> Mohamed Ali wrote:
>
>> Dear SunRay Forum,
>>
>> In the SunRay Administration Tool, i enable the CAM/Kiosk mode to 
>> launch Forefox 2.0 browser and set the policy as Non-card users to No 
>> Access and card users as CAM/kiosk users and restart the srss 
>> services. I also enabled prototype as describe in srss admin guide.
>>
>> Next, i logged in as root user and launch a firefox 2.0 browser. In 
>> the browser, i set my homepage url address and quit the browser. I 
>> copied the /.mozilla directory to prototypes directory( 
>> /var/opt/SUNWut/kiosk/prototypes/Firefox ).
>>
>> From the Sun Ray client terminal, i right-click and choose Firefox 
>> and the browser launched. The annoying part is, whenever i launch the 
>> browser i saw theis message " Your last Firefox session closed 
>> unexpectedly. You can restore the tabs and windows from your previous 
>> session, or start a new session if you think the problem was related 
>> to a page you were viewing ". I can choose the Start New Session OR 
>> Restore Session. I tried clicking both options and the browser launched.
>>
>> Can anyone help me to eliminate the Firefox message ?
>
The source of the problem might be the registry directory, which at 
least in my install is located in .mozilla and named .registry_<user>. 
If it was just copied from a result of a launch of mozilla by root, it 
probably doesn't match the expected .registry_utcuX corresponding to the 
CAM user. It may be necessary to use a wrapper launcher for the 
application so that prior to actually starting it, the .registry_root 
directory coming from the prototype is renamed to .registry_$USER.

Cyrille