399313 - Firefox mysteriously starts under Rosetta

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mark Pemburn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7

Firefox installed on a new Intel MacBook was launching as a PowerPC app.  Noticed this in Activity Monitor.  Looked in "Get Info" for Firefox.app and saw that the "Open using Rosetta" box was checked.  Un-checked and it has been running as "Intel" ever since.

(NOTE: entered this bug on the suggestion of Jesse Ruderman.  See bug #399065 for the full conversation)

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

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Comment 1

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Mark: I was not able to reproduce this issue on my macbook pro. I downloaded the 2.0.0.7 release from mozilla.com, and it did not have the box checked. I also checked the 2.0.0.8 candidate and it also did not have the box checked.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Did you download Firefox directly to your (Intel) MacBook, or did you import it from an older Mac computer?

Have you installed Shockwave or any other uncommon media plugins that might require PPC?  (Shockwave should not be confused with Flash, which is much more common.  Flash was once called "Shockwave Flash" for marketing reasons.)

Comment 3

[Mark Pemburn]

I downloaded Firefox from scratch and just imported bookmarks from my PC environment.  

I haven't downloaded any media plug-ins that I recall but I do have FireFTP, Firebug and Web Developer installed.  I'm not sure what kind of interface the Cortona VRML browser has to Firefox but I have that installed as well.  If you can tell me where to look for stuff (I'm still pretty new to Mac), I'll take a look.

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

I wouldn't be surprised if the Cortona VRML plugin had something to do with it.  http://www.parallelgraphics.com/products/cortonamacosx/download/ sure makes it look PPC-only.  Maybe its installer switches Firefox to PPC?  Seems like a nasty thing to do, though.

Josh, Steven, have you guys heard of anything like this happening to other Firefox users?

Comment 5

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

The Cortona VRML plugin is a PPC-only PEF binary.  But it can't be the
culprit, because it doesn't have an installer.

Some other installer could be responsible.  But I've never heard of
one that alters Firefox (or any other browser) to use Rosetta.  And
it'd be some trouble to make an installer do that ... possibly more
trouble than changing your plugin to work as a universal binary.

Comment 6

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs that are in the Firefox General component, are UNCO, and have not been changed for 1000 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10, create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you still see the bug, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the resolution to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.