Hi,
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 13:06, David G. Millerdave@davenjudy.org wrote:
I just checked the links with FF 3.5.2 under Fedora Core 11 and they open just fine. This would seem to narrow the problem down to FF 3.5 on CentOS 5.3. Perhaps someone with a CentOS 4.X could give it a try (assuming FF 3.5 will install on CentOS 4.x).
I managed to run FF 3.5 in CentOS 4.x but I can tell you right away that it's ugly...
I am using the binary install from the website, however it looks for libdbus-1.so.3 and libdbus-glib-1.so.2 which are not present on C4 (only libdbus-1.so.0 and libdbus-glib-1.so.0 there). To work around that, I created symbolic links pointing to the old versions... (Yes, I know that it's really ugly, but I just had to get it running and it worked sort of...).
I tried to rebuild it in C4 but had many build errors, it seems that it will not build without a recent Xorg and fontconfig packages (among maybe others). I am planning to build a Firefox 3.5 in C5 but disabling DBUS support, which will at least alleviate the problem with the libraries that are not present in C4...
Anyway, I tested those webpages with my FF 3.5 (binary) in C4 and they work just fine... I have a couple of users that are using 3.5 all the time, and they did not report any crashes or anything like that. I only have a problem with one specific user, sometimes when she starts it it complains about DBUS, then if I run it with -fail-safe parameter it opens just fine, if right after that I close it and open it again (without safe mode) it works. But the following day the same issue will happen again... Anyway, she was having some display issues with FF 3, so it's quite probable that she has something weird in her dot files that is causing the issue just for her.
Cheers, Filipe