[CentOS] firefox 1.5.0.5 packages

Mon Jul 31 12:53:35 UTC 2006
Bryan Cardillo <dillo at pcbi.upenn.edu>

On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 12:54:16PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 09:53:18AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > > 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 ...
> 
> This is apparently a widespread bug -- lots of problems with this update in
> RHEL4. See:
> 
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200622>
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200601>

        fyi, after reading bug 200622, I followed the link to bug
        139531, where I found the following workaround:  set the
        MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO environment variable before starting
        firefox, eg for bash:

            export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=yes

        Cheers,
        Bryan Cardillo
        Penn Bioinformatics Core
        University of Pennsylvania