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[Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

Ok, so I've been doing some research on Firefox's "find in page" not
working.  Basically the mozilla team claims that this is not a bug and will
Just Work if you Just Build Firefox Correctly, You Stupid Heathens.  See here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251543

Anyway, taking them at their word, I tried a completely clean build:
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rm -rf ~/.firefox
rm -f ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/compreg.dat

lftpget 
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0.1/source/firefox-1.0.1-source.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf firefox-1.0.1-source.tar.bz2
cd mozilla
cp browser/config/mozconfig .mozconfig
./configure --enable-xft --disable-freetype2 # it won't compile without these 
on my box
make
cd dist/bin
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. firefox-bin
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This did it, find in page worked.  Looking at our build compared to the
distributed browser/config/mozconfig, I decided the most likely culprit was
our use of a bare --enable-extensions.  I suspect this attempts to include
either all or a predefined set of extensions, including the forbidden
typeaheadfind extension.  I tried using the explicit list from mozconfig,
and it does work.

The patch is attached; if you apply this, cast -c, and then
'rm -f ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/compreg.dat', and you should get a firefox with
working find in page.

I didn't apply this to devel yet because there are issues:

1) How would we codify the compreg.dat removal in the spell?
'rm -f /home/*/.mozilla/firefox/*/compreg.dat' would do it, but do we do that
kind of thing to people?  I think this is just a cache, so it should be
safe, anyway.

2) The first few times I run firefox after casting this, I get the error:
"*** Failed to load overlay 
chrome://layoutdebug/content/layoutdebug-overlay.xul"
And it doesn't work, I have to ctrl-c it.  After I try to run it a few
times it starts working.  I don't know what this is, maybe some kind of
initialization race condition.  'rm -rf ~/.mozilla' didn't fix this, it
actually seemed to make it work (more restarts til it would work).  Ideas
anyone?
diff -dupr /home/jblosser/p4/smgl/devel/http/firefox/BUILD firefox/BUILD
--- /home/jblosser/p4/smgl/devel/http/firefox/BUILD     2005-02-26 
19:05:34.000000000 -0600
+++ firefox/BUILD       2005-03-01 00:18:41.290230384 -0600
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ fi &&
   --disable-mailnews                              \
   --disable-composer                              \
   --enable-crypto                                 \
-  --enable-extensions                             \
+  
--enable-extensions=cookie,xml-rpc,xmlextras,pref,transformiix,universalchardet,webservices,inspector,gnomevfs,negotiateauth
 \
   --enable-single-profile                         \
   $OPTS                                           &&
 make

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