[CentOS] firefox 1.5.0.5 packages

Johnny Hughes mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Sun Jul 30 14:53:18 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 23:01 -0500, Barry Brimer wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 08:09:30PM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> >> On 7/29/06, Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org> wrote:
> >>> I installed the new firefox 1.5.0.5 packages and had a few issues.  I had
> >>> read a similar post on the nahant list.  I would doubt that this is a
> >>> centos-induced problem.  The browser crashed when opening the extensions
> >>> manager and also with a very simple webmail page.
> >>
> >> If you upgraded directly from 1.0.8 to to 1.5.0.5, you probably need
> >> to reinstall all of your extensions.  I recommend (1) write down what
> >> all of them are, (2) uninstall them all from your present firefox
> >> 1.0.8, (3) upgrade to 1.5.0.5, and finally (4) install extensions
> >> again.
> >>
> >> Even upgrading from 1.5.0.2 (centosplus) to 1.5.0.5, I'd recommend
> >> reinstalling extensions.  In my experience firefox always crashes on
> >> the first -- and sometimes also second and third -- launches after an
> >> upgrade when there are any extensions present.
> >
> >
> > No problema here upgrading from 1.5.0.2 to 1.5.0.5. No crashes, extensions
> > working fine and all else.
> 
> I have created a new user on my system, which of course will build a new 
> firefox profile, with no extensions.  I have also moved the 
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.old and I 
> have opened the browser with no themes, extensions, or plugins.  Attempts 
> to access the extensions manager or multiple Horde webmail systems cause 
> the browser to crash.
> 
> I have launched firefox with strace and cleared the screen before trying 
> to access the extensions menu.

Make sure to run firefox as root once (I usually do that first, after
the upgrade).

See if that helps ...
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