[CentOS] firefox 1.5.0.5 packages
Bryan Cardillo
dillo at pcbi.upenn.edu
Mon Jul 31 12:53:35 UTC 2006
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 12:54:16PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 09:53:18AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > > 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 ...
>
> This is apparently a widespread bug -- lots of problems with this update in
> RHEL4. See:
>
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200622>
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200601>
fyi, after reading bug 200622, I followed the link to bug
139531, where I found the following workaround: set the
MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO environment variable before starting
firefox, eg for bash:
export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=yes
Cheers,
Bryan Cardillo
Penn Bioinformatics Core
University of Pennsylvania
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