firefox-1.0.1.p_2 crashing on javascript

[Jose M Rodriguez]

El Viernes, 15 de Octubre de 2004 02:30, Joe Marcus Clarke escribió:
> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 20:23, Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
> > El Viernes, 15 de Octubre de 2004 02:18, Joe Marcus Clarke escribió:
> > > On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 20:00, Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
> > > > El Viernes, 15 de Octubre de 2004 01:14, Jose M Rodriguez 
escribió:
> > > > > El Viernes, 15 de Octubre de 2004 00:52, Dan Finn escribió:
> > > > > > default options for me too.
> > > > >
> > > > > At last here,  working after deinstall, complete flush
> > > > > of /usr/X11/lib/firefox and ~/.mozilla/firefox (keep data
> > > > > apart !!) reinstall and run as root before use.
> > > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > Nope.  Still problems with javascript.
> > >
> > > Since I have never encountered this problem, I'm not sure what to
> > > suggest.  Perhaps it has something to do with environment.  I'm
> > > using GNOME 2.6.2 with metacity under the en_US.ISO8859-1 locale
> > > on 5.3-BETA.
> > >
> > > Joe
> >
> > It's strange.  Seems really related to the last port rev.  Allways
> > when open a new window via js.
>
> The only two changes that occurred in the last port rev were a fix to
> the firefox script to allow for mozilla-remote support to work (i.e.
> calling firefox http://www.someurl.com would open the URL in a
> running Firefox process), and a fix for building Firefox with Perl
> 5.00503.  The Perl fix is only conditionally included, and Firefox
> wouldn't have built prior to that.
>
> Joe
>

Get ready for fun.

firefox -g don't show this.

I suspect form your pretty innocent files/patch-browser_app_mozilla.in.  
Don't ask me why.

Surprise, Surprise ... Undoing the patch on /usr/X11R6/bin/firefox and 
javascript.popWindow() comes to live again !

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  josemi

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