--- 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. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at 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. __________________________________________________ Improve the mailing list by performing a simple search before posting and reading the FAQ/etiquette. Protect the integrity of your installation with the yum plugins. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com