Firefox 2.0 freezes and crashes [a workaround solution]

[Alexei 'keyhell' Zhurba]

Thank you Skott. I'll look at discussion.
I'm using KDE. I'm not really sure but sometime ago I reproduced the issue
at twm (?).

On 3/2/07, Scott T. Hildreth <shild at sbcglobal.net > wrote:
>
> 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 at sbcglobal.net>
>