TESTERS WANTED: Possible fix to Firefox crash

Michal Stanislawski freebsd at stasiek.org
Sun Oct 17 10:58:00 PDT 2004


Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> Yes.  Looks like there isn't going to be an easy fix to this.  However,
> this problem is not just specific to FreeBSD.  See
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264557 for a description,
> and a list of similar bugs affecting other platforms.
> 
> There is a potential workaround in one of the bugs.  Try shutting down
> Firefox, then edit ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/prefs.js, and add the following
> line:
> 
> user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.toolbar", true);
> 
> Then restart Firefox, and see if you can reproduce the crash.
> 
> Joe

After adding this line it works without crashes (at least with all 
problematic pages that I know of). Thanks for your help.

Best Regards
Michal Stanislawski


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