[CentOS] firefox-1.5.0.2-2.1.c4.centos.i386.rpm in testing -error message

Wed Apr 19 18:25:02 UTC 2006
Mike Stankovic <mlists2006 at yahoo.com>

--- Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at 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 at 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.
> 
> 
> 
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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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