[OpenIndiana-discuss] firefox 31.2.0esr broken?

[Nikola M.]

On 10/15/14 04:06 AM, Marion Hakanson wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Today I installed the 31.2.0esr release of firefox, obtained here:
>
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/31.2.0esr/contrib/solar
> is_pkgadd/firefox-31.2.0esr.en-US.opensolaris-i386-pkg.bz2
>
I used Firefox 31.1.1 ESR till now (ad 28 ESR before) and it worked for me.
Haven't tried 31.2 yet, but will.

> The system in question is running OpenIndiana oi151a7 (because it can
> still play flash videos), 64-bit.
151a7 is still best OI release ever.
151a8 broke playing flash amongst other things and so on.
It is said OpenSXCE developer Martin Bochnig (martin at martux.org) foud 
solution for Flash in it's latest distro release, but was unwilling to 
describe solution nor release the source, without money compensation
and someone _stupidly_ removed Martin's acces to this OI mailing 
list(s), without asking anyone but one pan asking him to, due to 
political reasons, so we are all at loss here.

Flash could be used if first you go to:
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/  and then flash would 
temporarily work in a browser.

> This version of firefox does not allow me to save downloaded files.  The
> symptoms are that every download, or "Save As" action returns immediately,
> and the Download window just shows "Failed" for the item.
You can try reporting bug to Ginn Chen (ginn.chen at oracle.com), that as I 
know is contributing Mozilla products builds, including Lightning calendar.
You can also try to ask for releasing source patches used.
Contributed builds used to require newest OracleStudio, that required 
paying support to get newest updates for compiler.
I am not sure but talked about moving to GCC for C++ issues, so you 
might  see it GCC is used now.

Not having /dev updates does not help the issue,
because it is hard (yet not impossible) to contribute external packages 
to moving target as Hipster,
it is much easier with /dev that is not moving in between releases.
>
> I found via "truss" of the firefox process that it's logging some error
> messages in my ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/downloads.json file:
>
> 	UnixFile.read is not a function
>
> When I start firefox in safe mode from the command line, the failed
> download attempts log more details:
>
> *************************
> A coding exception was thrown and uncaught in a Task.
>
> Full message: TypeError: UnixFile.read is not a function
> Full stack: EXCEPTION_CONSTRUCTORS.TypeError at resource://gre/modules/osfile/osfi
> le_async_front.jsm:87:5
> post/<@resource://gre/modules/osfile/osfile_async_front.jsm:453:11
> TaskImpl_run at resource://gre/modules/Task.jsm:283:1
> Handler.prototype.process at resource://gre/modules/Promise.jsm  ->
> resource://gre/modules/Promise-backend.js:866:9
> this.PromiseWalker.walkerLoop at resource://gre/modules/Promise.jsm  ->
> resource://gre/modules/Promise-backend.js:742:7
>
> *************************
>
>
> I've reverted to the firefox-31.1.0esr build, and downloads are
> working fine with that version.