Firefox 2.0 doesn't open downloaded files

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 03:55 -0800, alter_ego wrote:
> Thanks for your reply, the bug is particular to firefox2. I have tried
> mozilla 1.7.13 and firefox 1.5.0.7, both work as expected: both are able to
> open pdf, doc and ppt files using acroread, kpdf and openoffice.

I believe I have found the cause of this.  Edit firefox's Makefile, and
remove the line:

LIBS=           -Wl,-Bsymbolic -lc

Then rebuild Firefox.  You should be able to open attachments once
again.  Your other problems may be fixed as well.

Joe

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