#9145: TBB 3.0a1 crashes on startup on Win7 -------------------------------------------------+------------------------- Reporter: dope457 | Owner: tbb- | team Type: defect | Status: new Priority: High | Milestone: Component: Applications/Tor Browser | Version: Severity: Normal | Resolution: Keywords: tbb-crash, Windows, Hardware- | Actual Points: acceleration, fuck-mingw | Parent ID: | Points: Reviewer: | Sponsor: -------------------------------------------------+-------------------------
Comment (by tom): To add some explicit instructions here as this gets referenced often. For a built browser suffering from the problem, on Windows: 1. Copy browser/omni.ja twice, once to omni.ja-backup and once to omni.zip 2. Unzip the zip file using Windows built-in Zip Extractor. ([0] Indicates that other zip programs will not work correctly) 3. In the extracted omni/ folder, edit default/preferences/firefox.js and add ``pref("gfx.direct2d.disabled",true);`` 4. Repackage the folder by running (in the extracted omni/ folder) ``zip -qr9XD omni.ja *`` - I used the cygwin zip package to do this. [0] indicates that other packaging methods will not work. 5. move the repackages omni.ja over top the original (you have the back up right?!) and test! I was able to get it running with only gfx.direct2d.disabled - maybe one might need the layers.acceleration.disabled set to true too? [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/About_omni.ja_%28formerly_omni.jar%29 -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9145#comment:34> Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki <https://trac.torproject.org/> The Tor Project: anonymity online _______________________________________________ tor-bugs mailing list tor-bugs@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-bugs