[CentOS] firefox 1.5.0.5 packages

Mon Jul 31 00:33:32 UTC 2006
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 18:14 -0500, Barry Brimer wrote:
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> On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, William L. Maltby wrote:
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> > On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 00:26 -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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> >> On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 08:09:30PM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> >>> On 7/29/06, Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org> wrote:
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> >> The browser crashed when opening the extensions manager and also with
> >> a very simple webmail page.<snip>
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >
> > Ditto. Plus IIRC (I don't *think* it was my wife's Win machine) it came
> > out and upgraded my extensions when I first started? If not, to quote a
> > former mother-in-law, "I must be losing my mind!".
> 
> firefox did do the extension upgrade check with me as well.
> 

It is definitely a problem with some installs and not with others ...
which is quite strange.

Hopefully we will be able to figure out what set of programs is causing
the issues.

 
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