[CentOS] firefox 1.5.0.5 packages

Sun Jul 30 23:10:28 UTC 2006
Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org>


On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Johnny Hughes wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 23:01 -0500, Barry Brimer wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 08:09:30PM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
>>>> On 7/29/06, Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org> wrote:
>>>>> I installed the new firefox 1.5.0.5 packages and had a few issues.  I had
>>>>> read a similar post on the nahant list.  I would doubt that this is a
>>>>> centos-induced problem.  The browser crashed when opening the extensions
>>>>> manager and also with a very simple webmail page.
>>>>
>>>> If you upgraded directly from 1.0.8 to to 1.5.0.5, you probably need
>>>> to reinstall all of your extensions.  I recommend (1) write down what
>>>> all of them are, (2) uninstall them all from your present firefox
>>>> 1.0.8, (3) upgrade to 1.5.0.5, and finally (4) install extensions
>>>> again.
>>>>
>>>> Even upgrading from 1.5.0.2 (centosplus) to 1.5.0.5, I'd recommend
>>>> reinstalling extensions.  In my experience firefox always crashes on
>>>> the first -- and sometimes also second and third -- launches after an
>>>> upgrade when there are any extensions present.
>>>
>>>
>>> No problema here upgrading from 1.5.0.2 to 1.5.0.5. No crashes, extensions
>>> working fine and all else.
>>
>> I have created a new user on my system, which of course will build a new
>> firefox profile, with no extensions.  I have also moved the
>> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.old and I
>> 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 ...

I tried running firefox as root once, and then again with my user and my 
test user.  Both still exhibit the same problem.