TESTERS WANTED: Possible fix to Firefox crash

[Joshua Tinnin]

On Saturday 16 October 2004 03:48 pm, Gerard Samuel <gsam at trini0.org> 
wrote:
> Joshua Tinnin wrote:
> >On Saturday 16 October 2004 08:17 am, Kirill Ponomarew
> ><krion at voodoo.oberon.net> wrote:
> >>On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 10:44:54AM -0400, Gerard Samuel wrote:
> >>>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 it 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...
> >>
> >>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.
> >
> >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.
>
> I posted a few hours ago on what I did to get it working on 5.2.1.

Right. OK, it might have been your options, as you said you 
deleted /var/db/ports/firefox and it stopped crashing. I'm still 
curious to know if it were being caused by that or the 5.2.1 version, 
but glad you got it working.

- jt