Bug 432728
Summary: | Fedora-Build of firefox incompatible with some extensions | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Reindl Harald <spam2> |
Component: | firefox | Assignee: | Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | 8 | CC: | mcepl |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | pleaForReproductionFF3 | ||
Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2008-02-22 10:51:29 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Reindl Harald
2008-02-14 01:33:24 UTC
At this point, we're going to only be taking security fixes and major stability fixes into this release of Fedora. However, we still want to ensure the bug is fixed in the next version. We'd appreciate if you could test Firefox 3, available at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html or now shipping as the default in Fedora rawhide and provide feedback as to whether it still exists so we can file a ticket upstream to try to fix it in Firefox 3 before it is released. At this point, we're going to only be taking security fixes and major stability fixes into this release of Fedora. However, we still want to ensure the bug is fixed in the next version. We'd appreciate if you could test Firefox 3, available at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html or now shipping as the default in Fedora rawhide and provide feedback as to whether it still exists so we can file a ticket upstream to try to fix it in Firefox 3 before it is released. You missunderstood me A package from mozilla.org makes no sense, same with an upstream-ticket to mozilla The problem is the way ff in fedora is built If you try FF from mozilla.org ist will work without any troubles This problem exists since FF 1.x and Fedora 5 The developer of the htmlvalidator-extension has a small description online The really problem is that a extension what works with mozilla.org-builds is simply ok and if it makes troubles on any "special-ff-build" the problem is there At this time i can't test the extension with the rawhide-ff3-build because it will not install on a newer build as firefox 3.0b2, anyways it woul be fine if the ff-maintainers from fedora-project will contact the extension developer to find a solution together. > Cause: When installing the extension, you are using a C library that I > compiled with a older LIBC++ version than the one distributed with Fedora Core > 4. Unhapilly both are incompatible. Another symptom is that if you download > the real Firefox compiled in the same way from the Mozilla.org website, it > gives this error. http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/download.html On top of the there is a contact-link http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/faq.html Sorry, the above messages were generated automatically in my attempt to clean up Firefox bugs a little bit. So, to this bug. Author of the above page very clearly explains what is needed to make his extension work with our Firefox. The problem is that both upstream Firefox and the author of this extension use very old version of the libstdc++ library (support for programs written in C++). Unfortunately, I don’t see it possible that we would install per default these compat* libraries for all Fedoras just because some Firefox extensions doesn't work. If you think this extension is really important (and true, it looks pretty cool ;-)) then probably the easiest way is to ask on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList for packaging of the extension as a Fedora package (then of course there will be no problems with incompatible libraries, because it will be compiled with the Fedora native libstdc++), or of course you can package it yourself (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/NewPackageProcess). Closing as WONTFIX. Sorry, the second link should be http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join |