[OpenIndiana-discuss] firefox 31.2.0esr broken?

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 15/10/2014 15:52, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>>> I'm inclined to suspect that you have an LD_LIBRARY_PATH defined
>> somewhere which redirects firefox to use wrong library versions ?
>>
> I'm inclined to suspect that firefox is totally broken since I am still using OpenSolaris on
> a machine and there the pluggin worked with no problem but now it crashes all the time. So
> I am pretty sure they have done something extremely stupid this time.
>

You know that you HAVE TO go to this page to enable flash  ?

  > 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.

Something unkown is indeed broken between a7 and a9, ask
Martin Boching, he pretends to know the reason, but never
will tell us, maybe he helps you out. I do not believe that
there is a real error, as Martin wrote in another blog, he
now does not count that as an error, but a binary incompatiblity.
I can't say anything about that as I don't really know the nature
of the problem, despite of a couple of days of hard work trying
to find it.
But with the workaround and the "pin" trick, it's not a real
problem anymore.
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