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Joop:
Installed or better said unzipped the zip file into a new directory. Copied the contents of mozsupport.zip to the ecs\dll directory. I use run. So in the ff directory there is a Firefox!.ENV file and the file Firefox!EL.EXE. Normally a program will run without ant trouble with this setup. Its the same as other ff setups, only this time additional dll files to copy. Done that. Yet at start up I get a beep and this;

Unable to start 'FIREFOX.EXE' - rc= 2 - possible cause: 'STDCPP6'

** press Enter to continue **

I have no idea where to look and what this error will tell me. So anyone can explain to me what I did wrong this time?

Thank you
Joop

Ian B Manners:
Hi Joop,

something on the Mozilla OS/2 newsgroup about that,

ok, here it is, from Barbara

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.ports.os2/CwW3dYCHOFw

relevant bit below for you.


--- Quote ---I ended up here:

https://github.com/bitwiseworks/mozilla-os2/blob/master/widget/os2/README.OS2

I don't know where I've been, but I'd never read this before.
Reading down, I discovered:

6. INSTALL 'gcc473.dll' and 'stdcpp6.dll' from
      http://rpm.netlabs.org/release/00/zip/gcc-4_7_3_1-1_oc00.zip.
      If you use WarpIn, you may install a WPI from
      ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/gcc4core-1_2_2.wpi.
      If you use RPM/YUM, just run:
      'yum install libgcc473 libstdc++' from the command line.

I thought all that was for Firefox 24.  But with nothing to lose on
the T42 (again), I went out and got the gcc4core-1_2_2.wpi package
which happens to include the elusive STDCPP6 thing as well as gcc473
plus a whole bunch of other gccs I already had but I assume got
overwritten.
--- End quote ---

Dave Yeo:
As Ian said, you're missing stdcpp6.dll.
Be aware I made a boo-boo and screwed up a pref and will be replacing the build. For now you can fix it by going to about:config and search for dom.ipc.plugins.enabled and toggle it to false.
This will fix the 100% CPU issue with some plugins and be the same as the next upload.

Dave Yeo:
The requirements are,   gcc473.dll, mmap.dll, pthr01.dll, stdcpp6.dll, libc065.dll and the mzfntcfgft package.
Most of these are available at Hobbes, in particular for the newer DLLs, http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/internet/www/browser/moz_required_dlls_v1.zip.

Joop:
Thanks for the help, thought I got all, the last mentioned file was not in the list. Now I've FF17.0.11 running, but there are a lot of things very wrong. I can't get it into another language (that's something else than spelling, its about language toolbar, help etc). The nl.xpi from version 17.0.11esr is not accepted because its incompatible, the nl.xpi from version 17.0.10esr is accepted, can be installed, can be set to use it, but it doesn't make any difference, its English and it stays English.
I copied all the user files from FF10 to a new directory which is used by FF17, but it seems that this FF won't use that. So how do I get all settings into the new one, including lists with sites, passwords etc.?
The add-on container seems to run forever, had to do a ctrl-alt-del for popup and with the list and the kill option for deactivating the container. So for non English users its not an option, I stay with FF10 latest.

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