Liferea crashes when mozilla is installed

[Ernst Persson]

Liferea crashes when mozilla is installed and html-plugin
set to gecko.

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

Thanks for the report.

Could you provide some more information, please? What versions of the liferea and liferea-mozilla packages do you have installed?

If you run liferea from a terminal, do you see any useful error messages appear there when the application crashes? Could you possibly provide a backtrace of the crash?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash

Thanks again

[Ernst Persson (ernstp)]

This is liferea 1.0.4-1ubuntu1 in Dapper.
liferea-mozilla depends on firefox and I would guess it's only binary compatible with the firefox libs and not the mozilla libs.

the problem is this:
liferea searches for installations in this order:
look_for_mozilla "/usr/lib/firefox"
look_for_mozilla "/usr/lib/mozilla*/chrome/comm.jar"
look_for_mozilla "/usr/local/mozilla*/chrome/comm.jar"
look_for_mozilla "/opt/mozilla/chrome/comm.jar"
look_for_mozilla "/opt/mozilla/lib/chrome/comm.jar"
look_for_mozilla "/opt/gnome/lib/mozilla/chrome/comm.jar"
look_for_mozilla "/usr/lib/firefox*/chrome/comm.jar"
look_for_mozilla "/usr/local/firefox*/chrome/comm.jar"
look_for_mozilla "/opt/firefox/chrome/comm.jar"
look_for_mozilla "/opt/firefox/lib/chrome/comm.jar"

But when it runs with firefox it's actually matches first at the 7:th rule, which means that mozilla has higher priority.
Since liferea-mozilla DEPENDS on firefox, firefox will allways be installed, so all mozilla rules could be removed from that start file.

[Sebastian Dröge (slomo)]

should be fixed with 1.0.4-1ubuntu2 which was uploaded some minutes ago. Please reopen this bug if it doesn't fix it for you.

The problem was that liferea was compiled against our firefox 1.5 which is ABI incompatible with mozilla 1.7 thus I removed all search paths except the one for firefox