ports/125993: www/firefox3 is unusable

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:19:12 -0500, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:25:29 -0500, Joe Kelsey  
> <joe at zircon.seattle.wa.us> wrote:
>
>> Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>>> On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:30:07 -0500, Joe Kelsey  
>>> <joe at zircon.seattle.wa.us> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The following reply was made to PR ports/125993; it has been noted by  
>>>> GNATS.
>>>>
>>>> From: Joe Kelsey <joe at zircon.seattle.wa.us>
>>>> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, joe at zircon.seattle.wa.us
>>>> Cc:
>>>> Subject: Re: ports/125993: www/firefox3 is unusable
>>>> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:22:31 -0700
>>>>
>>>>  Now, since totem USED to work flawlessly in firefox2, but it causes a
>>>>  coredump in forefox3, that means that firefox3 is BROKEN.  I am  
>>>> really
>>>>  sorry that it took you 3 weeks to notice that firefox3 was broken,  
>>>> but I
>>>>  noticed the firest day it was released and submitted a PR.  Just  
>>>> because
>>>>  you don't pay attention to it does not matter to me.  I reported that
>>>>  totem core dumps firefox3 immediately.
>>>
>>> Weird, now I have totem works with firefox3 and it was built with  
>>> firefox2. I am not sure what has happened, but when I was working on  
>>> new USE_WEBPLUGINS[1] and I reinstalled totem to use it. I accidented  
>>> have USE_WEBPLUGINS to install all browsers even include linux.  
>>> However, the totem plugins work perfect in firefox3 without get  
>>> firefox3 crashes. It does not happen before. It's possible that  
>>> 2.0.0.16 has fixed or something else that got fixed. But, you can try  
>>> to reinstall totem with firefox 2.0.0.16, then copy totem plugins in  
>>> your ~/.mozilla/plugins to see if it's fixed for you too. Or maybe it  
>>> was fixed in Firefox 3.0.1. I am clueless at the moment.
>>>
>> I reinstalled everything and totem immediately crashes firefox3.
>
> Today, I have changed totem to only support gecko18 because I have found  
> depend on what page in www.apple.com/trailers will causing Firefox 3  
> crashes. While other pages doesn't get crash. I don't know why, but I  
> shall search in google for this problem sometime tonight or tomorrow  
> when I get break from USE_WEBPLUGINS. The mplayer-plugins works better  
> for Firefox 3, btw.
>
>> No change for me.  Maybe it is a gstreamer problem?
>
> I don't think it has to do gstreamer. It's more like totem plugins.

Download two files and put in totem/files, then reinstall it and copy  
plugins in ~/.mozilla/plugins. Let me know if it's fixed for you. It's  
fixed for me, firefox3 doesn't crash anymore in over 10 different websites  
that I have tested.

http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ports-stable/multimedia/totem/files/patch-browser-plugin_totemClassInfo.h
http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ports-stable/multimedia/totem/files/patch-configure

Cheers,
Mezz

> Cheers,
> Mezz
>
>> /Joe
>>
>>> I am marking totem with plugins works with gecko18 and gecko19 in MC  
>>> ports-stable. The MC ports-stable isn't complete ready, so I will  
>>> giving a head up when it's ready.
>>>
>>> [1]  
>>> http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ports-stable/www/mplayer-plugin/Makefile.webplugins  
>>> Cheers,
>>> Mezz


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