[Moonlight-list] Firefox removing XPCOM for FF 3.6a1

[Brad Taylor]

Hey,

Recently, I started encountering segfaults in the moon-unit tests.
Originally, I attributed the crashes to instability caused by the
mono-2-6 move, but I finally got a chance to find the cause today.

The segfault I was getting was at http://paste2.org/p/448706.  It seems
that in ff3-dom.cpp:182, Firefox is setting item to nsnull, causing the
actual segfault later on.

As I've been (epically) working on a Firefox patch myself, I've been
tracking the latest FF 3.6 branch.  It seems that in FF 3.6a1, they have
deprecated the XPCOM interface, causing any calls to NPN_GetValue with
the DOM window to return nsnull.  Instead they recommend replacing the
code with npruntime API calls.  A discussion board post to
mozilla.dev.tech.plugins yields more information[1].

Anyway, just thought I'd give you guys a heads up, and brighten your
days a bit.  I know my day got brighter hearing that we'll have to ship
two plugins for FF 3.5 and 3.6.  Yay!

Best,

-Brad

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[1]
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.plugins/browse_thread/thread/87b5dc9d4383755e