This patch makes my native Firefox-1.5.0.4 hang when I go to www.fifaworldcup.com site. # uname -an FreeBSD daemon.micom.mng.net 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #3: Fri Jun 16 12:00:54 ULAST 2006 root_at_gdaemon.micom.mng.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GDAEMON i386 Ganbold Adi Pircalabu wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:02:06 -0400 John Baldwin wrote: > > >> On Friday 16 June 2006 14:25, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: >> >>> Hello! >>> >>> On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: >>> >>>> dmitry> doesn't crash/hang anything, it just gives the >>>> dmitry> possibility to use this combination. >>>> >>>> This patch is somewhat redundant. Adding >>>> >>>> __weak_reference(dlsym, _dlsym); >>>> >>>> is enough. >>>> >>> Indeed, this also works for me. It would be nice to see this >>> trivial addition committed. >>> >> I agree. Do you have the __weak_reference() patch handy? >> > > I know that this patch, by itself, does not break anything in the base > system. It gives the possibility to use native Mozilla-based browsers > with linux-flashplugin7. It eases the task of integrating them. > But not always adding a feature leads to the desired results. Flash7 > DOES hang a lot when used with native Mozilla. Denying this isn't the > right thing to do, it will hit lots of users. > There are not as many reports as someone would expect because the patch > is not applied (yet) mainstream. Usually, if you offer a feature in a > software product, users tend to use it. > In this specific case I'd go for the solution of a separate library > used with LD_PRELOAD by Mozilla proposed by Marcus Alves Grando. > In the end, it's a matter of decision. > >Received on Tue Jun 20 2006 - 23:41:03 UTC
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