Firefox 17 gives 'unable to load xpcom error'

[Dave Yeo]

I downloaded the beta version of Firefox 17 and all I can get is the
'unable to load xpcom' error that is usually a Windows error. Anyone
have any idea what the problem is?

You need mmap.dll and pthread.dll.
http://rpm.netlabs.org/release/00/zip/pthread-20120924-11_oc00.zip
http://rpm.netlabs.org/release/00/zip/mmap-20111102-8_oc00.zip
or use rpm to install
Dave

[A.D. Fundum]

Post by Dave Yeo

'unable to load xpcom' error

You need mmap.dll and pthread.dll.

And PTHR*.ZIP's PTHR01.DLL.

By default the small icon (eCenter) of FIREFOX.EXE doesn't look right
with eCS 1.2.

Where can one find language packs? I did find a Mozilla directory, but
it s oldest version is FF 18.


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[Dave Yeo]

Post by A.D. Fundum

Post by Dave Yeo

'unable to load xpcom' error

You need mmap.dll and pthread.dll.

And PTHR*.ZIP's PTHR01.DLL.

Yea, I had the actual DLL name wrong.

Post by A.D. Fundum
By default the small icon (eCenter) of FIREFOX.EXE doesn't look right
with eCS 1.2.

During packaging lxlite is run on the binary and corrupts the icon. We
fixed it before by changing the bit depth of the icon to 64k colours and
the same needs to be done for newer releases. I did open
https://github.com/bitwiseworks/mozilla-os2/issues/38 about it.

Post by A.D. Fundum
Where can one find language packs? I did find a Mozilla directory, but
it s oldest version is FF 18.

Seems they're now considered an add-on, see
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/language-tools/

Dave

[A.D. Fundum]

Post by Dave Yeo

Post by A.D. Fundum
Where can one find language packs? I did find a Mozilla
directory, but its oldest version is FF 18.

Seems they're now considered an add-on, see
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/language-tools/

Ah, that's how I found the directory before it crashed.

Since FF18? When I select to install a language pack (e.g. Dutch) with
an M$ Internet Exploder, a new webpage appears. I don't have v26.0, so
I select "View other versions".

This opens a direcory of language versions, which goes back to FF 18.
I scanned a few FF 16 and FF 17 FTP directories, but no old language
pack there.


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[Dave Yeo]

Post by A.D. Fundum

Post by Dave Yeo

Post by A.D. Fundum
Where can one find language packs? I did find a Mozilla
directory, but its oldest version is FF 18.

Seems they're now considered an add-on, see
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/language-tools/

Ah, that's how I found the directory before it crashed.
Since FF18? When I select to install a language pack (e.g. Dutch) with
an M$ Internet Exploder, a new webpage appears. I don't have v26.0, so
I select "View other versions".
This opens a direcory of language versions, which goes back to FF 18.
I scanned a few FF 16 and FF 17 FTP directories, but no old language
pack there.

I don't know where they've gone. Can the FF18 language pack be patched
to install on 17?
Dave

[A.D. Fundum]

Can the FF18 language pack be patched to install on 17?

I'll try that later. I just tried importing an old SM langpack, but FF
crashes ("exit") too often to be able to try it now. This is with the
ancient Pentium III CPU (and a fast latest SM), so I'll try importing
different langpack versions again with another CPU.

No big deal so far, finding a langpack is basicly a generic question
and 17 is just too old than the oldest addon, 18.


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[T.]

Hi,

Post by Dave Yeo
I don't know where they've gone. Can the FF18 language pack be patched
to install on 17?

why not using the 17 instead?

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/17.0esr/win32/xpi/

[A.D. Fundum]

Post by A.D. Fundum
By default the small icon (eCenter) of FIREFOX.EXE doesn't
look right with eCS 1.2.

Sometimes the same "problem" with the large icon.

Another old problem: I just installed FF on an old PIII machine and
did run it once, just to test if it's installed properly. It starts
very ,very slowly. PII: no problem so far: PIII: 1 problem. CPU usage
100%, i.e. the same problem as we discussed earlier w.r.t. SM.

I did manage to solve that with SM by installing an older version, but
I've never installed an older version of just FF.


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[A.D. Fundum]

Post by Dave Yeo
You need mmap.dll and pthread.dll.

PTHREAD.DLL isn't shipped with MOZ_REQUIRED_DLLS_V1.ZIP, albeit I
haven't checked yet if it's no longer a required DLL.


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[Dave Yeo]

Post by A.D. Fundum

Post by Dave Yeo
You need mmap.dll and pthread.dll.

PTHREAD.DLL isn't shipped with MOZ_REQUIRED_DLLS_V1.ZIP, albeit I
haven't checked yet if it's no longer a required DLL.

Sorry, it is named pthr01.dll to avoid conflicts with other
pthread.dlls. The import library is pthread.lib and it slipped my mind
that the name is different.
Dave