--- Johnny Hughes mailing-lists@hughesjr.com wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 08:35 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
[I'm not on the devel list, so I'm not attempting
to post this there.]
On 4/19/06, Mike Stankovic mlists2006@yahoo.com
wrote:
Firefox could not install this item because "install.rdf" (provided by the item) is not well formed or does not exist. Please contact the
author
about this problem.
This has something to do with one or more
extensions. Even with
1.5.0.1 I was having problems with firefox
crashing on startup
whenever an extension was added or removed. When
I installed 1.5.0.2
from the testing repository I got the install.rdf
message, so I tried
uninistalling and re-installing all my extensions
(except the default
language packs and DOM inspector) and now the
startup-time crashes
have stopped.
The problem is with the language packs ... this is also not working correctly on FC5 (which is where this package is coming from) ...
we will (of course) make the 1.5 Firefox available as soon as possible ... it may not have the language packs installed though.
It will then NOT need to be downloaded separately, but wil be yum upgradable ... which the current RPMS are NOT.
We want to get this out ASAP ... but it does not work now :)
I do have one problem which began with 1.5.0.1 and
persists in
1.5.0.2, which is that occassionally when
downloading a file, firefox
crashes when opening the file in an external
application. With
1.5.0.1 it would crash after starting the app, but
in 1.5.0.2 it
crashes before the app is launched. This doesn't
happen consistently,
and it's only happening to me on CentOS 4.3 -- I
have 3.7 on another
machine and external viewers work fine there. It
seems to be related
to chosing "Other..." from the "What should
firefox do with this"
dialog and then navigating to an alternate viewer
-- I've never seen a
crash when accepting the default application.
Understand that the 1.5 firefox for FC5 (the first RH release of 1.5) is built to run with components (cairo, a newer pango) that are not in CentOS-4 ... it therefore requires some fairly significant changes from the source provided to work w/CentOS-4.
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Funnily enough i saw the firefox complaints on fedora-list but along with the other fc5-related complaints, i thought it was fc5 only.
THe upstream developer's page (explaining the issue) cannot open possibly because of being linked to on the fedora-list.
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