[OpenIndiana-discuss] firefox 31.2.0esr broken?

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

There's no problem with firefox or thunderbird_31.2.0 on oi_151a9
(this mail is written on TB 31.2.0 downloaded with FF 31.2.0...).
As usual, it seems to be a problem of the pkg version. Install
the tarball in /usr/local/ and point /usr/bin/{firefox,thunderbird}
to that binary. Never install something onto an existing package
directory. This problem reappears every couple of weeks here.


On 15/10/2014 06:30, Nikola M. wrote:
 > 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.

There's an additional trick to make this permanent:
After going to that page, right click on the page's tab
and "pin" it, then leave firefox. After restart, the tab
permanently stays there, and you never have to go to that
page again manually (only after a real flash crash, which
is much more seldom than with previous flash versions).
Be sure to have the last flash version for Osol, that is
11_2_202_223 .

On 15/10/2014 04:06, 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
>
> The system in question is running OpenIndiana oi151a7 (because it can
> still play flash videos), 64-bit.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.