273488 - Firefox 1.0 crashes when viewing Edit->Preferences->Privacy on MIPS platform

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Dragan Marinkovic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux mipsel; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

This problem occurs on MIPS based platform.
When trying to open Privacy settings (Edit->Preferences->Privacy) Firefox will
crash every time. If Firefox debug version is used it will just lock up without
any debug messages.

Config: XFree86-4.4.0, atk 1.8.0, glib-2.4.7, gtk+-2.4.13, pango 1.6.0,
gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.2 .

I found that Firefox/BONE had the same problem
(http://www.bebits.com/appver/2715 and search for "Version 20040515") but I
couldn't get the build from their WEB site and I don't know what the resolution
might be.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Firefox
2. Edit->Preferences
3. Click on Privacy

Actual Results:  
Crash (segmentation fault), quietly. 

Expected Results:  
Open Privacy settings.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Can you post your about:buildconfig output here? (just type it in the URL bar
and hit Enter)

I suspect you're building wallet, in fact I'm pretty sure of it, but the output
will tell the tale.

Comment 2

[Dragan Marinkovic]

Thanks for the tip -- I'll try that.

What I found is that the offending part is in pref-privacy.js, method Startup()
. If I disable password management lines (the 4 starting with "var
PasswdMgr...", Privacy works fine (with the exception of "Saved Passwords" buttons).

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

if you're doing a custom --enable-extensions line in your .mozconfig, just make
sure that it has -wallet and you're ok.

Comment 4

[Dragan Marinkovic]

Exactly the problem: I've added '-wallet' to '--enable-extensions' and Firefox
doesn't crash any more on MIPS. I'll give it a test drive for a few days to see
how stable it is -- looks good for now.

Thanks again for all your help. This issue can be closed now.

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

-> WFM.

Comment 6

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change