1540016 - Firefox 52.9.0 ESR crashes immediately on MacOSX High Sierra even in Safe Mode

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Graphics, defect, P3)

Description

[bearrailgun]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.1.2 Safari/605.1.15

Steps to reproduce:

Run Firefox with pressed options button.

Actual results:

crash reporter immediately started. Last crashes from ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Crash Reports/submitted/
bp-e912e1b5-4250-4937-b4be-1c7430190329.txt
bp-35952603-727c-488f-a795-fa6f30190329.txt

Expected results:

browser starts.

Comment 1

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Adding crash signature and moving hopefully to a better component based on Skia being in the source.

Comment 2

[bearrailgun]

I guess I know what could be wrong.
I run MacOS X High Sierra in VirtualBox 5.2. It seems to not support SSE4.2 instructions...
Is there any way to disable sse4.2 support via build parameters for Mac?
What is also strange is that I can build/run same 52.9.0 ESR release on Windows 7, with Core 2 Quad Q9550, which supports only sse 4.1 but not 4.2 for sure. On Windows same build works fine. So seems like sse 4.2 support used by default for all mac builds, but not for Windows. Maybe there is a clear way to disable it?

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

Closing because no crashes reported for 12 weeks.