Mozilla Firebird 0.6 released [LWN.net]

Mozilla Firebird 0.6 released

Posted May 18, 2003 0:16 UTC (Sun) by chrism (guest, #4713)
In reply to: Mozilla Firebird 0.6 released by stuart
Parent article: Mozilla Firebird 0.6 released

Try "./run-mozilla.sh ./MozillaFirebird"

In the future you should probably learn to read shell code and submit a useful bugreport rather than indignantly whine about shallow bugs.

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Mozilla Firebird 0.6 released

Posted May 18, 2003 0:32 UTC (Sun) by dang (guest, #310) [Link] (1 responses)

Note, I can read shell and in fact that is how I got firebird running. But there are these things called usability and documentation, and everyone but the djb list flame boys understand that one is entitled to expect a modicum of both by the time you get to a 0.6 release.

Firebird seems ok so far. As with Mozilla 1.4 series, it seems fast but also lacks the antialiased fonts that make 1.3 such a pleasure to use. Some widgets look extra-crappy to me in Firebird.

Mozilla Firebird 0.6 released

Posted May 18, 2003 9:35 UTC (Sun) by jarel (guest, #4109) [Link]

You're right, but only for the default builds. If you build your own, you can compile in support for xft and gtk2, for extra shininess.

Mozilla Firebird 0.6 released

Posted May 18, 2003 1:29 UTC (Sun) by arunta (guest, #11291) [Link] (1 responses)

Hey,

What I was getting was a segmentation fault.
You do not debug segmentation faults by reading shell code, right?
There are different kind of users and not everyone is expected to debug and submit a bug report for every bug they find. Please be kind enough to spare them...

`arun

Mozilla Firebird 0.6 released

Posted May 19, 2003 14:17 UTC (Mon) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

Sometimes the cause of the segfault is something in the shell script. (Not necessarily this time, but can happen...admittedly if it happens that way there's a bug somewhere but changing the script can affect it is my point...) Just to stay on topic, I had no trouble starting up Mozilla Browser (codename Firebird) on my Linux box running Gentoo; unpacked the default build into its own directory and ran 'phoenix'... it came up nicely. (I will try my own build to get xft and gtk2 though...)