Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Notice any improvement in Firefox 1.5? 

Yes. Firefox 1.5 doesn't segfault any more, which is great.

Firefox 1.5 just silently ignores preference changes, which is not
all that great, but still better than a segfault :)

And here is the detailed report:

First I verified that the filesystem is full:

  [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/deldir$ touch 7
  touch: cannot touch `7': No space left on device
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/deldir$ echo > a
  bash: echo: write error: No space left on device
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/deldir$ df -B1
  Filesystem           1B-blocks    Used       Available Use% Mounted on
  /dev/mapper/userhome 1056858112   1056858112         0 100% /home/user

Then I ran Firefox 1.5:

  dpkg -l firefox | grep ii
  ii  firefox    1.5.dfsg-4  ightweight web browser based on Mozilla
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/deldir$ firefox

and firefox came up without segfaulting.

I then called up Edit->Preferences and the preferences dialog came up
fine.  No error, no segfault.

I then edited the home page, overwriting it with a longer string
("http://www.cnn.com/"; instead of "about:blank"). No error, no
segfault.

Clicked on the "Close" button to close the preferences dialog. No
error, no segfault.

I then quit (File->Quit) firefox. No error, no segfault.

I then started firefox again. Called up the preferences.
Firefox still showed the old "about:blank" home page.

So it seems that FF now cleanly handles the out-of-space problem, it
just fails to notify the user of the problem.

Gruß,

Uli

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