577179 - Firefox 4.0b1 will not start.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[laertus]

User-Agent:       Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; PPC Mac OS X; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.60
Build Identifier: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

When attempting to start Firefox 4.0b1 in safe mode I get the following error message in Terminal: dyld: Symbol not found: _open$UNIX2003
  Referenced from: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/libnspr4.dylib
  Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install Firefox 4.0b1.
2.Attempt to start.
3.
Actual Results:  
The Firefox symbol bounces once in the task bar then stops.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should start and open a browser window.

I'm using an iBook G4 powerpc with OSX 10.4.

Comment 1

[[not reading bugmail]]

U might be out of luck, I think PPC support has been cut off for this version, and maybe 10.4.

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Well actually, this problem is not caused by lack of PPC support, but because we require MacOS 10.5 (Leopard) as a minimum version. I'm a little surprised we don't have a better error message, but I guess we can't because the app doesn't even load.