[21603] in Athena Bugs
Re: Mozilla
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Thu Mar 13 09:48:59 2003
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:48:56 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: <bugs@MIT.EDU>
cc: Aletta Wallace <aletta@MIT.EDU>, <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
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I don't know if we were "hoping it would go away." I just didn't have a
real fix for it. I still don't. That's a source code change. However
1. We are presently compiling our own Mozillas. Though I doubt this is
something we would want to start tampering with, we do at least now have
the power to look into the affected area.
2. The workaround should definitely be documented somewhere.
I'm not maintaining infoagents anymore, so I refer both of these to the
able and capable Mr. Robert Basch, who will surely see this from the bug
list, but I'll cc him anyway.
- Todd
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Camilla R Fox wrote:
>
> > The main problems are:
> > 1) When I am typing in a URL it goes very slowly and on the right hand
> > side of the drop-down box there are chinese characters.
> > 2) The fonts in the menu bar/navigation buttons/etc randomly change at
> > times when I mouse over them.
> > 3) The place where the cursor is displayed in the URL box is not where
> > charachters appear when I type sometimes.
>
> All three are symptoms of the same problem; the format of the history
> file is endianness specific, and if you switch between platforms with
> a different endianness, it will get corrupted.
>
> A work-around is to delete your history.dat file from inside your
> mozilla's profile directory, before starting mozilla, when you switch
> platforms.
>
> I don't know if there's any plan to address this problem; we might have
> been hoping it would go away on its own when mozilla 1.2.1 came out.
> Todd? If there's no fix in sight, we should at least document the
> work-around.
>
> -Camilla
>
