Bug 6706

Summary:	Ad Block Plus Installation Crashes the Mageia Firefox (and Doesn't Work Afterwards)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Shlomi Fish <shlomif>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, marja11, rg
Version:	2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	firefox	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Shlomi Fish 2012-07-05 21:56:16 CEST

As reported by ttyX on IRC, if one starts up the Mageia Firefox 10.0.5esr from the updates and installs Ad Block Plus from Tools -> Add Ons -> Search -> "ad block plus", then it causes Firefox to crash (at least with i586 , Mageia 2 - tested inside a VirtualBox VM). Furthermore, afterwards, Ad Block Plus does not work (for example the see the site with the not-safe-for-work (NSFW) ads - http://www.skins.be/ ).

A workaround  to all this is to download the Firefox 10.0.5esr binary from mozilla.org here:

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all.html

And use that to install Ad Block Plus, which then works nicely.

Comment 1 Sander Lepik 2012-07-09 08:23:43 CEST

This seems to get more serious.

CC: (none) => sander.lepik
Hardware: i586 => x86_64
Assignee: bugsquad => dmorganec

Comment 2 Sander Lepik 2012-07-09 08:24:22 CEST

*** Bug 6726 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

CC: (none) => rg

Comment 3 Sander Lepik 2012-07-09 08:29:12 CEST

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/versions/ do versions before 2.1 work?

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2012-07-09 08:30:59 CEST

This bug was originally filed against i586, the duplicate against X86_64, to me that makes Platform = All

CC: (none) => marja11
Hardware: x86_64 => All

Comment 5 Shlomi Fish 2012-07-09 11:03:08 CEST

(In reply to comment #3)
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/versions/ do
> versions before 2.1 work?

AdBlock Plus 2.0.3 gets installed fine in a new profile, and after a restart appears to work fine.

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish

Comment 6 Manuel Hiebel 2012-09-08 20:00:05 CEST

bug still valid ? (beside your bug 7237)

Source RPM: (none) => firefox

Comment 7 Shlomi Fish 2012-09-08 20:09:37 CEST

(In reply to comment #6)
> bug still valid ? (beside your bug 7237)

Still happens with firefox-10.0.7-1.mga2 on x86-64 Mageia Linux.

Comment 8 Razvan Cosma 2012-10-24 10:24:58 CEST

Workaround from https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7237#c8 fixes Adblock

D Morgan 2013-09-18 00:04:11 CEST

Assignee: dmorganec => bugsquad

Comment 9 Manuel Hiebel 2013-10-22 12:10:29 CEST

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Approximately one month from now Mageia will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Mageia 2. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX (EOL) if it remains open with a Mageia 'version' of '2'.

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Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Mageia release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete.

-- 
The Mageia Bugsquad

Comment 10 Shlomi Fish 2013-10-22 16:58:58 CEST

Seems to be fine in Mageia 3 so closing.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED