firefox-13.0.1,1, clang & Hotmail

[Dwayne MacKinnon]

Hi all,

I have access to two FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE i386 boxes. Both have up-to-
date ports. 

I ran into an unusual problem. On one box, I could not read my Hotmail 
e-mails in firefox. On the other box, I could. (On both boxes I could see 
my Hotmail inbox. however, when clicking on an e-mail one box would 
have the upper and lower headers (reply, forward, etc.) immediately 
following one another and the other would display the actual 
message.)

I did some digging, and after a while, I found the difference. On one box 
I had built firefox using clang. On the other box I used gcc. 

The gcc-built firefox works properly with Hotmail. The clang one does 
not.

I was able to confirm this by uninstalling the working firefox and 
rebuilding with clang. The problem was perfectly reproduced. 
Reinstalling the gcc-built firefox (I had made a backup package) fixed 
the problem.

I have no idea how to get more detailed information for you, but if 
someone can give me some directions I'd be happy to help further.

Cheers,
DMK