* Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> merge 411475 411479 411483 411493 411505 411531
> severity 411475 serious
> thanks
> 
> Hi,
> 
> These issues are, as far as I can see, all from the same origin: the fix
> for bug #408883. This is very unfortunate, and I see the following
> choices to solve the issue:

I'm shocked that this change had all these negative side effects. 

> - Hack the profile manager so that it tries to use the firefox profile
>   if it exists, like it already does with very old profiles that were in
>   ~/.firefox.

This is probably a good idea in any case. 

> - Hack the profile manager so that it doesn't display "Firefox" but
>   "Iceweasel", without involving a modification of the nsXREAppData like
>   has been done in the fix for #408883.

Basically the problem is that the name field in nsXREAppData is
overloaded. There should be a display name field in that struct for
this situation. I think I'll work on a fix from that approach. 

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