ports/125993: www/firefox3 is unusable

[Joe Kelsey]

Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> 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 
>
>
These files work great for me.  Firefox3 no longer crashes with totem.

Thank you very much for working on this problem.

/Joe

> 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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