TESTERS WANTED: Possible fix to Firefox crash

[Gerard Samuel]

Joshua Tinnin wrote:

>On Saturday 16 October 2004 08:17 am, Kirill Ponomarew 
><krion at voodoo.oberon.net> wrote:
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>>On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 10:44:54AM -0400, Gerard Samuel wrote:
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>>>Im going to have to burst your bubble.
>>>Im running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9, and applied your patch,
>>>and Firefox crashes on your test site, and on my own site (of which 
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>>>didn't before the patch).
>>>Just to make sure, Im going to reinstall the previous version of
>>>Firefox, just to make
>>>sure that it doesn't crash on my own site.
>>>I'll report back when I get it reinstalled...
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>>It still crashes also here on 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9, even with Joe's
>>patch.  I can remove /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox before installing, but I
>>don't think it should help.
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>Preliminary results seem to indicate that crashes are only an issue for 
>5.2.1 with this patch, which most likely isn't worth testing (no 
>offense), as 5.2.1 has been upgraded to 5.3-BETA, which is the branch 
>being developed for the STABLE release. Since 5.2.1 isn't being 
>developed anymore, you might want to try upgrading to one of the BETAs 
>and testing the patch.
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I posted a few hours ago on what I did to get it working on 5.2.1.