[SOLVED] Firefox and GTK3

mkaito · 2016-02-17 03:43:17

So the latest few versions of Firefox in the repo have all been GTK3 enabled. Ever since this happened, Firefox started segfaulting on me. I have not been able to find a precise problem, nor have I been able to figure out a fix. I posted here before, with logs and strace output, and I've gone to the IRC channel too, looking for help. Nobody was able to help me, beyond telling me to wipe my profile, which I had already done.

As far as I can tell, GTK3 is the culprit.

I'm currently running firefox ESR, version 38.6.1, which is still linked against GTK2, and runs fine. I expect it to break in the future once ESR switches to GTK3.

Going forward, is there a way to keep a GTK2 version of firefox available that isn't horribly outdated? Or do current builds of Firefox not allow that? I do not want to switch to any other browser, if I can at all avoid that.

Last edited by mkaito (2016-02-17 16:10:19)

Xabre · 2016-02-17 03:55:03

firefox-gtk2 from AUR. Version of GTK is a buildtime switch still.

mkaito · 2016-02-17 04:06:03

Nice! I missed that when reading through the huge list of results for "firefox".

mkaito · 2016-02-17 16:10:10

firefox-gtk2 refused to build, but conveniently, there's firefox-gtk2-bin.

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#1 2016-02-17 03:43:17

[SOLVED] Firefox and GTK3

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Re: [SOLVED] Firefox and GTK3

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Re: [SOLVED] Firefox and GTK3

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