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Date:      Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:39:14 -0600
From:      "Scott T. Hildreth" <shild@sbcglobal.net>
To:        "Alexei 'keyhell' Zhurba" <keyhell@keyhell.org>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firefox 2.0 freezes and crashes [a workaround solution]
Message-ID:  <1172846354.66810.43.camel@fbsd1.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <11af83ee0703020114v5153a1acke95da344c3171ee1@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <11af83ee0703020114v5153a1acke95da344c3171ee1@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 09:14 +0000, Alexei 'keyhell' Zhurba wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> There is an issue with Firefox2 at FreeBSD (I reproduced it at FreeBSD
> 6.2and FreeBSD
> 7.0): Firefox 2.0 segfaults when saving more than one file per session (see
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=105589). Unfortunately, it has
> "State:closed" but issue is still reproduceable.

   If you search the archive, you will see discussion about XDG_DATA_DIR
   which is improperly set and causing the crash.

   Which window manager are you using?  
> 
> Today, after some my experiments I've found suitable workaround for this
> issue (it is at least suitable for me ;) ). It is about libgnome. I have
> only firefox using libgnome, so it was not a problem to deinstall it. After
> libgnome was deinstalled my Firefox2 started work correctly (I've tried upto
> 30 savings ;) ).
> 
> As I see Firefox port doesn't require libgnome (but I remember that  one
> time I had problems with firefox build without libgnome).
> 
> It still looks strange for me, so I'm looking for someone who wishes to test
> hist firefox against this issue: reproduce segfault, then remove libgnome.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> keyhell
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Scott T. Hildreth <shild@sbcglobal.net>



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