Ah, I answered my own question - the minimum gtk requirement is 2.10 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159258
Title: Helper applications launched by Firefox inherit ALL file descriptors Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Confirmed Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: firefox When Firefox starts up an external application (e.g. Evince) that application inherits ALL file descriptors open by Firefox - this is firstly a potentially large security hole (e.g. security files are also open like key3.db). Secondly it causes residual problems when Firefox (or a plugin like Flash) has opened the audio device - the audio descriptor is inherited and not closed till the spawned app is closed resulting in the audio device being useless till then. I came across this bug when trying to track down the apparent problem of audio lockout with evince - which is still listed as a bug on launchpad - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/102408 - and on gnome: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371822 I think that these bugs are actually a result of this bug in Firefox Firefox should follow standard procedures and shut all open file descriptors before execing helper apps. It appears this bug has been reported on the FireFox bugzilla but its not been fixed yet?? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147659 ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Nov 1 12:35:08 2007 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: firefox 2.0.0.8+2nobinonly-0ubuntu1 PackageArchitecture: i386 SourcePackage: firefox Uname: Linux ballard 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/159258/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
