From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 Description of problem: After upgrading Mozilla to 0.9.5, the web page view in Nautilus 1.0.4 doesn't work. I always get the message "Web page view encountered an error while starting up". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Upgrade to the latest Mozilla (currently 0.9.5) by RPM from mozilla.org 2. Open a Nautilus window. Click on a help document in the side-bar, try to view a HTML document or enter an HTTP URL. 3. Downgrade to Mozilla 0.9.2 (the horror, the horror!) and everything will work again. Well, except having the functionality and speed improvements of Mozilla 0.9.5 of course... Actual Results: You'll get a "Web page view encountered an error while starting up" message (which also is misspelt in the Swedish locale). Expected Results: Nautilus should render and display the HTML, man etc. document. Additional info: The Nautilus RPM's dependencies specify mozilla >=0.9.2 IIRC, so according to that a Mozilla upgrade should work fine. I set the severity to "High" since this prevents upgrading such an important package as Mozilla or it renders a key feature of Nautilus useless, and I understand Nautilus 1.0.5 has been out for quite a while now without showing up as an up2date upgrade. P.S. to the translator(s): "Web page view" is incorrectly translated to the linguistic abomination "Webbsida-vyn" in the Swedish Nautilus locale. It should be "Webbsidevyn", or if you like me intensely hate the ugly swedification "webb" of English slang it should be "WWW-sidevyn". I personally prefer "WWW-visningen" or "HTML-visningen". ("Nu skall jag tjatta pe webben och ldsa e-mejl, hejde!") >:^~
We don't support RPMs that we haven't released. The Nautilus we shipped isn't intended to work with the new Mozilla. If you want as-yet-unreleased desktop RPMs, see ftp://people.redhat.com/hp/gnomehide, but read the README there first for important caveats. Those RPMs do not count as released and aren't supported, they are just development snapshots.
Thanks! I got both Nautilus 1.0.5 and Mozilla 0.9.5 working fine. I noticed that Nautilus 1.0.5 needed libgnomevfs-pthread.so, and found this in the gnome-vfs-devel RPM. This was not shown by that Nautilus RPM's dependencies. OTOH, I really think RH's Nautilus packages should work with Mozilla.org's own original Mozilla packages. I mean we're not talking about "Joe Schmoe's 31337 RPM Emporium" on a Geocities page here, but the official source of the software in question.
I have the same problem and the same basic opinion about nautilus working with newer releases of mozilla. Mozilla is so integral to redhat that users have to be able to upgrade it without worry.
Guys, we can't guarantee that our software will work with software that has not yet been released, but will be released, by someone else who is not thinking "keep Red Hat working" as their primary goal. ;-) mozilla.org changed the interface to mozilla; that is not something we can keep them from doing, and they haven't promised to avoid it. So we rely on having specific mozilla versions so that the interface is stable. There is no other way to use Mozilla. If you replace a Red Hat system component with third-party packages, you're on your own. That said, again blizzard from mozilla.org does build the packages in gnomehide, and those are kept in sync with the devel Nautilus packages in there. They are typically up to date or close to it.