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xulrunner-1.9 package

[Hardy] The Prism Refractor Extension (v0.2) causes file downloads to kill firefox 3

Bug #247132 reported by 20after4
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xulrunner-1.9 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Alexander Sack
Hardy
Fix Released
High
Alexander Sack
Intrepid
Fix Released
High
Alexander Sack

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

Tested with Ubuntu 8.04 running Firefox 3, all OS updates installed.

After installing the Prism Refractor extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6665 ) - downloading any file (consistently) kills the browser after the download completes.

This is most likely caused by a bug in the Prism extension, however, it only happens with Ubuntu's Firefox 3 package. I can't trigger the bug when using the vanilla Firefox 3 tarball from mozilla.org ( same system, same Firefox profile.)

I already reported this bug in the Mozilla bug tracker: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444472

Since it's related to Ubuntu's version of Firefox I decided to post it here as well. Refer to the Bugzilla link for detailed explanation.

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

after debugging with prism developer we found that there are two bugs here:

 1. prism has obsolete code that hooks in the download manager - which it shouldnt do. prism author will fix this
 2. our patch for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368428 lacks a NULL check in OpenFile -> we will fix this in update.

Changed in firefox:
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
assignee: nobody → asac
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
Changed in xulrunner-1.9:
assignee: nobody → asac
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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

committed fix to xulrunner-1.9.head branch

Changed in xulrunner-1.9:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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20after4 (twentyafterfour) wrote :

Awesome, good work Alexander!

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Changed in xulrunner-1.9:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 247132] Re: [Hardy] The Prism Refractor Extension (v0.2) causes file downloads to kill firefox 3

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:33:28PM -0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
> enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!
>
> ** Changed in: xulrunner-1.9 (Ubuntu Hardy)
> Status: Triaged => Fix Committed
>
> ** Tags added: verification-needed
>

Thanks Steve,

anyone: please test and comment even if you verified the PPA packages
before.

Thanks in advance,

 - Alexander

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package xulrunner-1.9 - 1.9.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1

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xulrunner-1.9 (1.9.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * LP: #247494 - new upstream stability/security release (v1.9.0.1 build1)
    - see USN-626-1

  [ Fabien Tassin <email address hidden>]
  * Add a build-system for xulrunner application inside the SDK.
    mozilla-devscripts is able to make use of this
    - add debian/create-build-system.sh
    - update debian/rules
  * Rename the ld.so.conf.d file to xulrunner-1.9.conf as it seems
    extension matters
    - update debian/rules
    - update debian/xulrunner-1.9.postinst
  * Get DEB_MOZ_VERSION and DEB_MOZ_VERSION from changelog and make more use
    of variables to make the merge with the 1.9.1 branch easier
    - update debian/rules
    - update debian/xulrunner-1.9.postinst
    - update debian/xulrunner-1.9.postrm
  * Make EM_TRANSLATION_VERSION follow upstream version now that strings are
    hard frozen and bump EM_TRANSLATION_MAX_VERSION to 1.9.0.*
    - update debian/rules

  [ Alexander Sack <email address hidden> ]
  * borrow lockPref patch from debian xulrunner (Debbugs: #469020)
    - add debian/patches/bzXXX_deb469020_lockPref_everywhere.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
  * Debian compatibility patch that is supposed to make xulrunner also
    consider /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ in sid as of xulrunner 1.9~rc2-4
    - add debian/patches/bzXXX_sysplugin_support.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
  * prepatch fix for bmo: #120380 - 'needsterminal flag in mailcap
    must be respected'
    - add debian/patches/bz120380_att326044.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
  * add xre part missed by debian for sysplugin support
    - add debian/patches/bzXXX_sysplugin_support_xre_part.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
  * drop patches applied upstream
    - delete debian/patches/bz428848_att319775_fix_venkman_chrome_access.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
  * housekeeping for debian/patches directory; remove obsolete patches from
    debian/patches/ and drop commented patches from series
    - delete debian/patches/bz384304_fix_recursive_symlinks.patch
    - delete debian/patches/bzr423334_att310581_leak_initparser.patch
    - debian/patches/drop_bz418016.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
  * (disabled in intrepid) fix "jemalloc not enabled in --with-xul-sdk= builds": we
    fix this by building libjemalloc as a static lib and linking xulrunner-bin and
    xulrunner-stub against it.
    - add debian/patches/jemalloc_in_xul.patch
    - add debian/patches/jemalloc_static.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
    - update debian/rules
    - update debian/xulrunner-1.9.postinst
  * link nss/nspr include directories to xulrunner-1.9 sdk in order to
    allow upstream extensions to be built against ubuntu xulrunner.
    - add debian/xulrunner-1.9-dev.links
  * add empty xulrunner-dev package to ease sync/merge tasks for ubuntu
    by providing the package name used by debian.
    - update debian/control
  * fix makefile style variable eval in xulrunner-1.9 prerm script and use
    proper sh'ish style
    - update debian/xulrunner-1.9.prerm
 ...

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Changed in xulrunner-1.9:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Copied to hardy-updates.

Changed in xulrunner-1.9:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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