Problems with mozilla-firefox and mozilla-thunderbird

JGC · 2005-01-06 08:51:41

Firefox can live with _ONLY_ the lib dir, that's where ALL stuff is put. Normal applications would put their data in /usr/share, but the mozilla devvers think that lib is the right place to put icons, themes, data, etc in it :X

The preferences in bin are removed from the package, there's only /* don't edit this file */ in it. Since it's only comments, and it doesn't say something about remove, rm -rf did fine :+

i3839 · 2005-01-06 12:28:51

I tried compiling Firefox myself, with different config options, but it fails without any error message (and some others which I fixed). So I wonder, how picky is Firefox about the config options and how unstable is the whole build process? Or is it a gcc 3.4.3 problem? I more or less followed your pkgbuild, but used "make -f client.mk build" instead of just make like you do, as they say everywhere that that's the way to do it.

JGC · 2005-01-06 14:20:29

The make -f stuff is somewhat broken in the last mozilla-* releases, don't know what they changed in it.

What I do is actually the same: I use the ./configure without options, that reads out the .mozconfig file and creates makefiles. Then I do make and make DESTDIR=blabla install. The client.mk build thingy used to do the same.

About failed to build: you need the freetype patch, otherwise it will break.

i3839 · 2005-01-06 16:38:21

I'll try with just configure and make instead of -f client.mk, perhaps the latter made a bogus makefile somewhere and that explains the build fail without any error message... The other error which I fixed was that a certain include file couldn't be found, probably also caused by a bad makefile. The freetype patch was applied.

BryanY · 2005-01-20 03:40:18

I seem to be getting the segmentation faults in Thunderbird (only). I'm using the 1.0 Package. Should I downgrade freetype?

morphus · 2005-01-20 08:00:17

you could try it, this worked for me...

robot5x · 2005-07-17 19:22:33

Hi all -
I've just reinstalled arch again, and firefox is crashing for me about every 5 secs - its completely unuseable.
There's been a few suggestions throught different threads -
1.tranquility mentioned something about libXfixes solving his problem - I have latest xorg and other packages after a fresh install and an upgrade.
2. someone mentioned downgrading freetype - tried this and still crashing.
3.someone mentioned moving the .mozilla dir - same thing happens.
I even tried recompiling firefox thru abs, but it errors out.
I guess this isn't a widespread problem, since only a few users have mentioned it - but this is a fresh install, no testing repo. Would appreciate any advice!
edit: I also disabled the auto-hinting stuff as that was mentioned before.

JGC · 2005-07-17 21:05:17

I'm working on new mozilla stuff. Found loads of useful patches that fix lots of issues. Hope to have mozilla, thunderbird and firefox packages of the most recent versions tomorrow.

The segmentation fault issue is something I can reproduce on my system though, but it only happens on exit when I close the last firefox window.

xerxes2 · 2005-07-17 21:12:25

firefox is stable as a rock here,
realplayer takes it down sometimes but i don't blame firefox for that,

robot5x · 2005-07-17 21:25:53

great - looking forward to the new packages.thanks

viniosity · 2005-07-19 01:08:03

As eager as I am for 1.05 to make it into Arch I think it'd be better to wait another week given that they'll be bumping to 1.06 Also covered on OSNews.

viniosity · 2005-07-20 04:02:47

Ok .. looks like they've been updated!

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

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#26 2005-01-06 08:51:41

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