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From: Adrien Sohier <adrien.sohier@××××××××××××.fr>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 16:45:26
Message-Id: 20160715184426.3ffbc0ed.adrien.sohier@art-software.fr
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting by Grant Edwards
1 Le Thu, 14 Jul 2016 17:55:02 +0000 (UTC),
2 Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> a écrit :
3
4 > www-client/firefox got updated this morning to 45.2.0, and now it segfaults
5 > whenever you enter a character in the search field or the URL field.
6 >
7 > Anybody else see this sort of behavior?
8 >
9
10 I run firefox 47.0.1 and don't have that kind of problem.
11 Though to solve this you could try a few things :
12 - rebuild firefox (if you built it, instead of using the binary one) with
13 -ggdb CFLAG and debug USE flag, and then run it under gdb.
14 Then you could try to reproduce the segfault, and gdb would tell you where
15 it crashed (even the source files and guilty lines), and push that to
16 Mozilla's bugzilla and/or package maintainer to get a patch in the meantime
17
18 - at least just try to reproduce the bug, and file it to Mozilla / package
19 maintainer to get them to reproduce it and fix it
20
21 - or simply downgrade to the previous version. :)
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24 Chrome hasn't the faintest customisation firefox grants us thanks to its
25 XML-JS-CSS UI Structure, and the quantity of modules is simply incredible
26 (plus it's not Google behind, that can't be anything but a plus).