With a recent update, Firebug started segfaulting Firefox for me as well (64-bit Ubuntu). Interestingly enough, when I installed firebug in a new Firefox profile, the problem seemed to not happen in that new profile.
On Jan 21, 11:15 am, John J Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 21, 8:48 am, Marcus Better <[email protected]> wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > John J Barton wrote: > > >> Will there be any updates for firebug untill ubuntu patch this? :( > > > > No, Firebug will not be making any changes. You can install a > > > supported 32 bit Firefox for linux. I suggest you also complain to > > > Ubuntu about their choice to ship the unsupported 64 bit firefox. > > > John, as you probably know, shipping official Firefox binaries is not an > > option for source-based Linux distros. > > No I don't know this, but it also not relevant here. > > > So I would assume that most Linux > > users end up using non-official binaries, whether 32-bit or 64-bit, built by > > their distributions and not Mozilla. > > You write this as if 32-bit and 64 bit are some how equally valid > choices. This is not correct. The 64 bit version is not supported by > Mozilla. Ubuntu is shipping alpha releases as if they are products. > That is my first complaint. > > > And usually they carry patches not > > present in official Firefox builds, and they may build against slightly > > different libraries etc. > > The most serious change made by at least some distros is to remove the > crashreporter, a vital tool for diagnosing crashes and helping users. > This makes our job harder. That is my second complaint. > > > > > In short, most users on the Linux platform will use Firefox binaries other > > than the ones provided by Mozilla. Now this time around we had a bug > > affecting 64-bit builds, next time it can be a Ubuntu-specific bug in the > > 32-bit version. You could dismiss that too as an unsupported build, but the > > fact is that this is what people are using. > > The actual case and the hypothetical case are not similar. The 32-bit > build on linux is supported by Mozilla. Triage would point to Ubuntu > as the problem: they support it, fine. The 64 bit build on linux is > no supported. Triage leads "well maybe a user will offer a patch". > > > > > As for those who complain about the crashes: the situation is pretty simple, > > there was a bug in Firefox, it was fixed, and complaining here doesn't help. > > Wait until your distro ships Firefox 3.6, or backports the fix like Debian > > did, or use some other working binary. > > Here we absolutely agree! > > jjb > > > > > Cheers, > > > Marcus > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > > iEYEARECAAYFAktYhU0ACgkQXjXn6TzcAQm+KgCgmcXJjWwBPKyKwAVhVAo/L2UY > > 3EcAoN1eRDIezTHQcCr63BBiiVM4lLdt > > =qPKb > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en.
