Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:40:43 +0100 (CET) From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: rotkaps_spam_trap@gmx.de Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CFT] Firefox 3.6 for FreeBSD Message-ID: <201002042340.o14NehTF094039@triton8.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <epqr37-627.ln1@news.hansenet.de> References: <20100204001933.GA11586@bsdcrew.de> <201002042113.o14LDaOg089837@triton8.kn-bremen.de>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In article <epqr37-627.ln1@news.hansenet.de> you write: >Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> wrote: > >> In article <20100204001933.GA11586@bsdcrew.de> you write: >>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>Hash: SHA1 >>> >>>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 > >Aha, und das alles klappte dei dem www/firefox3-devel bisher nicht? > >Krass. Ma gut, das ich nie Addonns verwende ;-) >[...] Do you also use no plugins? :) And yes, www/firefox3-devel was affected too (that was in fact the version where I first discovered the bug, just took me a `little' longer to find the actual cause because I wasn't familiar with the code at all...) Cheers, Juergen
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?201002042340.o14NehTF094039>