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firefox package

  1. Bug #789198
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 789198

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Ricardo Salveti (rsalveti) wrote : Re: Firefox crashes when attempting to play webm video OMAP4 Panda Board

Merge proposal: https://code.launchpad.net/~rsalveti/firefox/natty-disable-thumb2/+merge/65757

SRU Justification for Natty:

Impact: Current firefox package enable THUMB2 support by default on ARM, but as a side effect this break WebM support, disabling youtube html5 support (this is important on ARM as we don't have public available flash plugins). The fix just disable THUMB2 support, and allow developers to easily change the rules file to package with THUMB2 again while debugging the issue.

Fix: Disable THUMB2 support while configuring the package on ARM.

Testcase: Open Firefox on Panda, go to www.youtube.com/html5, enable the trial and then try to open a WebM video.

I built firefox with this patch and pushed the packages at https://launchpad.net/~rsalveti/+archive/armel, so no FTBFS related with this change.