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Date:      Thu, 4 Feb 2010 22:13:36 +0100 (CET)
From:      Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
To:        miwi@FreeBSD.org, gecko@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, gnome@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [CFT] Firefox 3.6 for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <201002042113.o14LDaOg089837@triton8.kn-bremen.de>
In-Reply-To: <20100204001933.GA11586@bsdcrew.de>

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In article <20100204001933.GA11586@bsdcrew.de> you write:
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>Howdy,
>
>We know that a lot people are waiting for Firefox 3.6,
>but nox@ found a strange bug which is now solved.
>The problem was that starting Firefox 3.6 with certain
>addons installed was not possible. Now it looks like all
>problems are solved and we can start a CFT.
>[...]

 ..and in case anyone is wondering what the issue was, the problem was a
filename handling change that basically caused all .xpt files (XPCOM type
libraries) failing to load when there where symlinks in paths to one of
them - like the ones from addons when /home is a symlink like it usually
is on FreeBSD - and thus ff couldn't start.  Here is the mozilla ticket:
	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530793

 Cheers,
	Juergen



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