Reimundo Heluani wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 23:26 -0400, Joe Ciccone wrote: > >> Reimundo Heluani wrote: >> >>> Hello List, compiled Firefox 3.5 against Xulrunner 1.9.1 on a multilib >>> X86 system, and I have this really >>> strange behaviour. Firefox-64 runs, and I can browse the wiki for >>> example without trouble >>> but as soon as I try any of "save file" "preferences" etc. the browser >>> hangs. Similary, >>> it hangs opening gmail.com, nytimes.com, or anything requiring a plugin. >>> What is most confusing is that Firefox-32 segfaults on startup. But if >>> there is a running copy of >>> Firefox-64, then Firefox-32 runs fine (same hangs though) This I guess >>> means that Firefox-32 needs some libraries that Firefox-64 loads to >>> memory, that's why it doesn't crash on startup if Firefox-64 is >>> already running. >>> Next, after running Firefox-32, Firefox-64 won't load again, it will >>> hang on loading, requiring removal of .mozilla to load again. >>> >>> >>> >> Yes, this will happen if you use the same .mozilla/firefox for 32bit and >> 64bit. To this day I'm still not sure exactly what file is the cause of >> this, but It could be any of the configuration files such as >> compatibility.ini, extensions.ini or xpti.dat, I see references to lib64 >> in all those as well as pluginreg.dat. I've always thought about >> tweaking the build to have .mozilla/firefox-32 and .mozilla/firefox-64. >> >>> Same results with Firefox 3.0.11 on xulrunner 1.9.0.4 so I >>> guess it has to do with some configuration... Any ideas? >>> >>> >> Another thought is if you're using a 32bit plugin, try nspluginwrapper >> so you dont need a 32bit firefox. I forget if I added it to cblfs or >> not, if not you're welcome to tackle it or I'll slap it in there as soon >> as I can. >> > > Thanks for pointing this out. Actually I usually don't really care about > flash so I rarely bother installing the plugin. But installing this > plugin solves the issue of Firefox hanging at most websites (this is > really strange though, it shouldn't hang on lack of a plugin). Now I can > go to nytimes.com at least. > > On the other hand the browser still hangs on gmail's inbox (this might > be a programming issue, it happened before on Firefox 2...) but the > thing that puzzles me the most is that it hangs when I try to open the > preferences! >
I'm not sure about why it's hanging, I've never had any issues like that. I've only seen the issue where it segfaults when you try to open the different versions. _______________________________________________ Clfs-support mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cross-lfs.org/listinfo.cgi/clfs-support-cross-lfs.org
