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Date:      Sun, 5 Nov 2006 23:06:23 +0100
From:      Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        alter_ego <alter_ego@icmail.net>, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firefox 2.0 doesn't open downloaded files
Message-ID:  <20061105220623.GI43231@fasolt.home.paeps.cx>
In-Reply-To: <1162747814.27822.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
References:  <20061025174128.GR53740@fasolt.home.paeps.cx> <7171153.post@talk.nabble.com> <1162631578.1096.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <7184312.post@talk.nabble.com> <1162747814.27822.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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On 2006-11-05 12:30:14 (-0500), Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 03:55 -0800, alter_ego wrote:
> > Thanks for your reply, the bug is particular to firefox2. I have tried
> > mozilla 1.7.13 and firefox 1.5.0.7, both work as expected: both are able to
> > open pdf, doc and ppt files using acroread, kpdf and openoffice.
> 
> I believe I have found the cause of this.  Edit firefox's Makefile, and
> remove the line:
> 
> LIBS=           -Wl,-Bsymbolic -lc
> 
> Then rebuild Firefox.  You should be able to open attachments once
> again.  Your other problems may be fixed as well.

Yeah!  It works!  May I commit this change?  Or would you prefer to do it
yourself (or not do it at all)?

Thanks!

 - Philip

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