Re: Packaging a free Firefox

["Gábor Boskovits" <boskovits@gmail.com>]

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2018-05-15 10:57 GMT+02:00 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>:

> Hi Pjotr,
>
> Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:
>
> > So I have been using Icecate for 10 days. It is frustrating because it
> > does crash every other hour on some JS load. The error always looks like
> >
> > Extension error: SyntaxError: in strict mode code, functions may be
> declared only at top level or immediately within another function
> resource://gre/modules/ExtensionUtils.jsm ->
> moz-extension://73353d04-3869-453b-8b9b-f71ceaae6e26/polyfill.js 63
> > [[Exception stack
> > Current stack
> > runSafeSyncWithoutClone@resource://gre/modules/ExtensionUtils.jsm:25:110
> > tryInject@resource://gre/modules/ExtensionContent.jsm:197:9
> > execute@resource://gre/modules/ExtensionContent.jsm:273:5
> > trigger@resource://gre/modules/ExtensionContent.jsm:463:11
> > DocumentManager.observe@resource://gre/modules/
> ExtensionContent.jsm:342:7
> > ]]
> >
> > I only have noscript and adblock plus installed and running. Any ideas?
>
> Did you check on the “about:home” page whether other things were
> enabled?  Also, is the JS error above fatal?  JS is designed to keep
> going in spite of errors (really!), so it could be that the thing above
> doesn’t matter.
>
> FWIW, I’ve been using IceCat (actually mostly Conkeror, but it’s the
> same thing) for a long time and I’ve rarely experienced crashes.  I’m
> surprised the experience is that bad for you.  Is this on GuixSD?
>
> > I think I'll go to FF again if this persists.
>
> IceCat is essentially the same code as FireFox modulo branding, add-ons,
> and a few trivial things.  I don’t see how IceCat itself could be
> blamed—the add-ons maybe, the way it is packaged in Guix perhaps, but
> IceCat?…
>
> Ludo’.
>
> There was  a bug in earlier Firefox, might that be that IceCat doesn't have
the fix for that yet? I don't know how much IceCat is delayed to Firefox.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24573061/uncaught-syntaxerror-in-strict-mode-code-functions-can-only-be-declared-at-top,
see the last comment.

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