ports/125993: www/firefox3 is unusable

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:35:05 -0500, Joe Kelsey <joe at zircon.seattle.wa.us>  
wrote:

> 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.

Good. Does the gtk-gnash problem still exists even with totem fixed? I  
can't reproduce your problem with gnash and gnash-devel when I was work on  
add USE_WEBPLUGINS. It is possible has to do with amd64 as I only have  
i386 machines.

Cheers,
Mezz

> /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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