Firefox 2.0 doesn't open downloaded files

[Philip Paeps]

On 2006-11-05 12:30:14 (-0500), Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yeah!  It works!  May I commit this change?  Or would you prefer to do it
yourself (or not do it at all)?

Thanks!

 - Philip

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