* Ben Wheeler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Package: iceweasel > Version: 2.0.0.1+dfsg-4 > Severity: normal > > After thinking for a long time that this was a problem with Foxyproxy > and FF2 generally, it now appears specific to iceweasel (just like #399753 > -- these two problems together have forced me to stop using iceweasel and > use Firefox downloaded from mozilla.org instead). > > Basically the symptoms are that pages fail to load via the proxy when > they should, and when one goes to the Foxyproxy menu option under Tools, > or loads the Foxyproxy options dialog, the menus are blank and a stream of... > TypeError: this._entities has no propertiesTypeError: this._entities has > no propertiesTypeError: this._entities has no propertiesTypeError: > this._entities has no propertiesTypeError: this._entities has no > propertiesTypeError: this._entities has no propertiesTypeError: > this._entities has no propertiesTypeError: this._entities has no > properties > ... followed eventually by ... > InternalError: too much recursion > ... is dumped to the tty. > > This can be an intermittent problem. Sometimes, some combination of > uninstalling/reinstalling the extension, and/or removing foxyproxy.xml, > xpti.dat and compreg.dat, and saying the right magic words, enables > foxyproxy to work for a while. But then it will stop working in the > next browser session, or even halfway through the current one. Overall > it doesn't work more often than it does. > http://z9.invisionfree.com/foxyproxy/index.php?showtopic=302 > > To be absolutely clear on this, it works fine under stock Firefox > 2.0.0.1 with exactly the same profile & extensions. So it appears > to be specific to some difference introduced by iceweasel. Which is > not to say it's iceweasel's fault, but even knowing what has changed > between firefox and iceweasel (other than the name) might help > figure out where the problem lies even if it is within the extension.
Foxy proxy doesn't use any compiled code does it? You can examine the diff.gz yourself, but there isn't a lot of changes in there from the stock code (mostly portability fixes and build fixes), but a second set eyes never hurts. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6
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