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On 2019-09-16 15:43, Mick wrote: |
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> Actually, on two systems FF 68 has been a disaster: |
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> As reported by Peter, it crashes when launched. |
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I rebuilt with the default flags (ie. with the system libraries) and so |
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far it is working ok. |
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> I have found three approaches to allow it to launch. |
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> 1. Start it with --safe-mode. A pain, because I have to re-enable the |
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> Menu to become visible as well as the Bookmards Toolbar. By |
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> definition all addons and extensions are disabled. |
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As Peter wrote, this seems to point to an extension as the culprit. How |
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many do you have, and are any of them out of the "mainstream"? |
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> Then restarted it. It launched with its new start up page and what |
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> not. Everything worked. I did NOT change any settings what-so-ever. |
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> I closed it and relaunched it. The window now has no window title bar |
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> at the top. |
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Yes, this is a feature. I kid you not. There is a checkbox somewhere |
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(I think in the Toolbars|Customize panel) to re-enable the title bar. |
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Unpleasant UI mods like this have become a matter of course with |
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Mozilla, unfortunately. |
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> also shows no bookmarks. Menus are empty. What the ... ?! |
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This I would not expect. Are you sure you moved _only_ prefs.js out of |
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the profile directory and no other files? |
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> 3. Create a new blank profile. This works fine, until/unless I try to |
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> tweak telemetry settings. |
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I disable all the telemetry rubbish, if there is no ".enable" setting I |
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just clear out the corresponding URL. And as I say above, this doesn't |
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break my firefox. |
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> I don't mind recompiling it if this is what must happen, is there any |
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> particular system-* USE flag which I should disable? BTW, in previous |
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> versions I have these FF USE flags set in a corresponding package.use |
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> file: |
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> system-harfbuzz system-icu system-jpeg system-libevent system-libvpx system- |
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> sqlite -wifi |
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I have a feeling you're too quick to suspect these libraries. If the |
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system linking worked for you before, why do you think it is the cause |
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of the breakage now? Many other things have changed. |
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Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, |
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if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. |
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To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists |
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which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com. |