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Mark Stodola <[log in to unmask]>
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Mark Stodola <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 17 Nov 2014 13:37:10 -0600
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On 11/17/2014 12:50 PM, Mark Stodola wrote:
> On 11/06/2014 08:10 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 5 November 2014 16:49, Franchisseur Robert <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>> -- Le (On) 2014-11-04 +0000 à (at) 12:14:52 Simon Clubley écrivit
>>> (wrote): --
>>>
>>>> Has anyone had any luck installing Classic Theme Restorer in the SL
>>>> build of Firefox 31.x on SL 5.x ?
>>>>
>>>> I have tried removing the localstore.rdf file, creating a new profile,
>>>> disabling all installed extensions and still the addon hangs during
>>>> installation.
>>>>
>>>         Same thing for me so I installed the following add-ons :
>>>
>>
>> Thank you for confirming it isn't just me.
>>
>>>         - Tabs on bottom 0.5
>>>         - The Addon Bar (restored) 3.2
>>>
>>
>> Those two addons certainly help thanks.
>>
>> However, I think this may be a problem with the SL specific build of
>> Firefox 31.x.
>>
>> When I installed the Addon Bar mentioned above, it messed up the
>> Status-4-Evar status bar so I uninstalled Status-4-Evar and tried to
>> install it again, but the Status-4-Evar installation also hung. I have
>> also found first hand reports of people using Classic Theme Restorer
>> with the non-SL versions of Firefox 31.x ESR without a problem or any
>> complaints so I am suspicious there's a more general problem in the SL
>> build which is stopping some addons from being installed.
>>
>> Simon.
>>
>
> Bringing this back up from the dead.  Did we ever get resolution on
> this?  I noticed the TUV errata has new xulrunners for v6 and v7, but
> not v5.  I still have xulrunner 17 installed and am wondering if this is
> the cause.  I am having trouble installing extensions as well has having
> a situation where the browser does not fully exit, resulting in me
> needing to 'killall firefox' to move forward.  Anyone tried to build a
> newer xulrunner?
>
> -Mark

Nevermind the xulrunner business.  I guess I'm a bit behind the times 
and now see that firefox contains its own libxul.so.  I saw a similar 
bug reported to CentOS 5.11 and it appears to be internal to firefox, at 
least that is what the messages point to.

-Mark

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