Subject: Re: firefox 1.0.1 behaviour changed badly on current/i386
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/15/2005 13:35:43
In article <21879.9311238856$1110831368@news.gmane.org>,
	David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org> writes:
> On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Mark Davies wrote:
> 
>>> Same on Linux/i386 (build from source using recent pkgsrc, both 1.0 and
>>> 1.0.1 versions).
>>
>> We got rid of the "Alert boxes with no text" problem here by
>> deleting  /usr/pkg/lib/firefox-gtk2/components/libwallet.so (after seeing the
>> following on tech-pkg:
>> http://www.archivum.info/tech-pkg%40netbsd.org/2005-01/msg00187.html)
> 
>  	The official 1.01 Linux installer does not include libwallet.so.
>  	Would anyone have any objections to stopping the pkgsrc firefox
>  	entry from installing it? I've removed it from my system and
>  	things just seem to be much less annoying :)

I just tried moving libwallet.so out of the way, and that's not a very
satisfactory solution. It seems to do a lot more than just pop-up bogus
dialog boxes.  For instance, when you click the "clear" button to clear
the forms data, the button doesn't go gray. Same for the cache clear.


Frederick