[oe] [meta-browser] firefox not working for me (only)

[Gary Thomas]

On 2015-06-17 08:36, Andreas Müller wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> Turned off-topic so I opened a new thread. For those who missed the
> old thread [1] in short:
>
> for me
>
> * firefox fails with illeagal ARM instruction
> * chromium fails during start - details I can't reproduce currently
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>>> Hmm - I was wondering why nobody took care.
>>>
>>> All my plattforms fail:
>>> * i.MX6 base
>>> * gumstix
>>> * raspberry Pi2
>>>
>>> I'll put this browser issue on my TODO currently I have no further
>>> time to take care.
>>
>>
>> BTW, I just tested both chromium and firefox on the i.MX6Q and RPi2
>> and they worked just fine.  Built from meta-browser:0cc0419a
>>
> Thanks for information. Let's focus on firefox's illegal ARM
> instruction crasher:
>
> * Last time I felt the only one facing a specific error it was caused
> by angstrom enabling thumb(2) for ARM (long story @meta-fsl-arm).
> Gary: I assume, you don't have thumb enabled - right?
> * firefox doesn't crash with "--safe-mode"

I am not using thumb - off the shelf configurations for RaspberryPi2 and
BoundaryDevices nitrogen6x built with $DISTRO=poky are the ones I've tested.

>
> Looking into meta-browser I saw that firefox pins ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET
> = "arm" but firefox-l10n does not. When having some time left over
> (=never) I will test with thumb disabled for firefox-l10n and
> chromium.
>
> Andreas
>
> [1] http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-June/106229.html
>

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