405055 - Firefox 3 Beta 1 doesn't start on 10.3.9 due to unresolved symbols

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dan Williams]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/312.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312.6
Build Identifier: 

$ Desktop/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin   
dyld: Desktop/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin Undefined symbols:
/Users/meg/Desktop/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/XUL undefined reference to _kCGColorSpaceGenericRGB expected to be defined in Carbon
/Users/meg/Desktop/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/XUL undefined reference to _kCGImageSourceShouldAllowFloat expected to be defined in Carbon
/Users/meg/Desktop/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/XUL undefined reference to _kCGImageSourceTypeIdentifierHint expected to be defined in Carbon
Trace/BPT trap

Double-clicking does not launch the app of course.  OS X 10.3.9 PPC Build #7W98

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Dan Williams]

Looks like at least kCGColorSpaceGenericRGB is 10.4 and later only.

Comment 2

[Dan Williams]

Looks like all of them are >= 10.4 only

Comment 3

[Jeremy Baron]

OS X 10.3 is not supported in Firefox 3:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/system-requirements-v3.html

Comment 4

[Ian Tommins ('thelem')]

Fair enough, but a release note saying a platform isn't supported isn't enough to close this bug. There should be an error message either in the installer or on startup. I've had a search for a bug about that but I can't find one - do you know if there is one or should I file a new one?

Comment 7

[v3russiaman]

I agree -- why do so many Mac OS X installers allow you to install a >= 10.4 app on a 10.3.9 system...  only to then crash immediately on startup.  Ugh, time to upgrade, I guess.  BUT STILL!  There should be some warning system in place.