[Hardy] The Prism Refractor Extension (v0.2) causes file downloads to kill firefox 3
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xulrunner-1.9 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Alexander Sack | ||
Hardy |
Fix Released
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High
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Alexander Sack | ||
Intrepid |
Fix Released
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High
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Alexander Sack |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox
Tested with Ubuntu 8.04 running Firefox 3, all OS updates installed.
After installing the Prism Refractor extension (https:/
This is most likely caused by a bug in the Prism extension, however, it only happens with Ubuntu's Firefox 3 package. I can't trigger the bug when using the vanilla Firefox 3 tarball from mozilla.org ( same system, same Firefox profile.)
I already reported this bug in the Mozilla bug tracker: https:/
Since it's related to Ubuntu's version of Firefox I decided to post it here as well. Refer to the Bugzilla link for detailed explanation.
after debugging with prism developer we found that there are two bugs here:
1. prism has obsolete code that hooks in the download manager - which it shouldnt do. prism author will fix this /bugzilla. mozilla. org/show_ bug.cgi? id=368428 lacks a NULL check in OpenFile -> we will fix this in update.
2. our patch for https:/