Firefox 7.0 doesn't run with Zotero on FreeBSD

strontium90
Hello everyone

I'm unable to get Firefox 7.0 run with Zotero (tried both 2.1.10 and 2.1.9). Upon installation of Zotero, Firefox asks me to restart it for Zotero installation to complete, which I do, but it doesn't come back on screen!
Looking at process status shows that Firefox is hanging there idly:

> ps ax | grep -i firefox | head -1
26129 ?? I 0:00,68 /usr/local/bin/firefox

FYI:
> uname -srm
FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64

I've been running different versions of Zotero with different ones of Firefox on FreeBSD for the past 2 years without a single problem.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

~Razmig
  • hsin-yu.ko
    Exactly the same problem occurs for FBSD-i386
    > uname -srm
    FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p2 i386
    >firefox -v
    Mozilla Firefox 7.0.1
    zotero 2.1.10

    firefox can only start exactly without zotero

    one can disable it with safe-mode
    >firefox -safe-mode

    once the zotero is enabled, the problem comes back again.

    Any help is greatly appreciated.

    Thank you.

    ~Hsin-Yu
  • ajlyon
    Hopefully the core team can look into this, but can you try Zotero 3.0 in the meantime?
  • hsin-yu.ko
    Thanks Jlyon.
    3.0 version does a smooth start on firefox7.
    I will look into it a little bit latter.
    BTW, the following is the link in case if anyone need it,

    http://www.zotero.org/support/3.0#zotero_30_beta

    Thanks again.
  • ajlyon
    Great to hear.
  • strontium90
    Thanks ajlyon. I've installed 3.0b2 and Firefox doesn't hang anymore.
    The problem should probably be reported to Firefox FreeBSD port maintainers as well.

    ~Razmig

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