Bug#396636: What about non-PowerPC versions?

[Moshe Yudkowsky]

At 16:56 2007-01-08, Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote:
>On Monday 08 January 2007 23:37, you wrote:
>
> > I got an old .deb of mozilla-browser (1.7.8) that still uses
> > NS_InitEmbedded, and I placed  the entire unpacked debian into an entirely
> > new directory (~/.eclipse/mozilla). I then set MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME to point
> > to that directory that contains libgtkembedmoz.so, and started up eclipse
> > -- and it still crashes and complains about NS_InitEmbedded.
> >
> > I modified /usr/bin/eclipse to set MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME to an empty string.
> > eclipse *still* crashes and complains if I make the mistake of selecting
> > Windows -> Web Browsers. I think it might not crash at random, however.
>I believe that you're hitting the original bug #396636 :) Wait just some hour
>for eclipse 3.2.1-4 (I know, this is an "old" bug) being installed for all
>architectures and retry without setting anything, and it won't crash!

Excellent, thank you. I am just surprised that providing a copy of 
libgtkembmoz.so with NS_InitEmbedded doesn't fix the problem.

Also, I wish I could find a document that would tell me how to examine my 
preferences. I suspect that there's a fix that involves turning off 
something in the preferences (such as "use system browser"); but I can't 
find a text file anywhere that sets that preference, and when I try to 
reach it via the eclipse menus it crashes instead.

In any case, your quick response is much appreciated! If you need me to 
test anything in advance of general release, please let me know.


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