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guzzi:
*bww bitwise works GmbH progress update March 10, 2015
***

This is the fourth beta release of Firefox for eCS (OS/2) version 24. It
contains some UI fixes (makes the "Clear Recent History" dialog and most
recent sites' thumbnails on the new tab canvas work again) and makes
XUL.DLL finally loadable into high memory.. Also this release uses the
new GCC runtime (version 4.9.2) which significantly reduces the size of
executables and DLLs and the memory footprint of the running application
(by about 5-6 megabytes).

The CHANGES.OS2
<https://github.com/bitwiseworks/mozilla-os2/blob/FIREFOX_24_8_1esr_RELEASE_OS2_Beta_4/widget/os2/CHANGES.OS2>
file contains more detailed list of changes.

The README.OS2
<https://github.com/bitwiseworks/mozilla-os2/blob/FIREFOX_24_8_1esr_RELEASE_OS2_Beta_4/widget/os2/README.OS2>
file contains software requirements and detailed installation instructions.

*IMPORTANT NOTICE*

 1.

    If you find a bug (which is likely), please create an issue at the
    issues page <https://github.com/bitwiseworks/mozilla-os2/issues>.
    But before you create a new issue, be sure it is not already
    reported by searching through the existing ones using the Search
    field at the top of this page.

 2.

    When Firefox crashes it creates a trap report that may contain
    useful information for the developers. These reports are saved in
    |.TRP| files created in the directory where |firefox.exe| is
    installed. By default these reports contain only basic information.
    In order to make them even more useful (and therefore make a fix for
    your problem much more likely) please do the following:

      * Install the latest EXCEPTQ runtime from
        http://home.earthlink.net/~steve53/betas/
        <http://home.earthlink.net/%7Esteve53/betas/> (currently, this
        one
        <http://home.earthlink.net/%7Esteve53/betas/exceptq-7.11-shl-2014-03-03.zip>
        is the latest).
      * Install the Firefox symbol files by downloading the
        |.symbols.zip| archive from the link below and unzipping it to
        the same directory where you installed Firefox.
      * Make Firefox crash again and attach the resulting |.TRP| file to
        the issue describing your problem.


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Ian Manners:
I renamed my old firefox directory and unzipped firefox-24.8.1.en-US.os2.beta_4.zip
I have all the latest gcc and libc DLL's from when I installed Apache Open Office a couple of weeks ago.

When I try to run firefox I simply get

  "Couldn't load xul.dll"

I havent run highmem on the firefox dll's yet.

There is no exceptq or other log files anywere.
I've read the readme and changes file with nothing that jumps out at me.

guzzi:

--- Quote from: Ian Manners on March 10, 2015, 06:26:50 pm ---I renamed my old firefox directory and unzipped firefox-24.8.1.en-US.os2.beta_4.zip
I have all the latest gcc and libc DLL's from when I installed Apache Open Office a couple of weeks ago.

When I try to run firefox I simply get

  "Couldn't load xul.dll"

I havent run highmem on the firefox dll's yet.

There is no exceptq or other log files anywere.
I've read the readme and changes file with nothing that jumps out at me.

--- End quote ---

Did you do the following?:

4. INSTALL 'freetyp6.dll' and 'fntcfg2.dll' into one of the directories
      on your "LIBPATH". You can download RPMs with these files from:
         http://rpm.netlabs.org/release/00/i386/i386/freetype-2.5.5-1.oc00.i386.rpm
         http://rpm.netlabs.org/release/00/i386/i386/fontconfig-2.8.0-1.oc00.i386.rpm
      If you use RPM/YUM, just run this command:
         yum install freetype fontconfig

Ian Manners:
I installed the zip versions.
   fontconfig-2_8_0-1_oc00.zip  <== actually backlevels the version of fntcfg2.dll
   freetype-2_5_5-1_oc00.zip
into C:\ecs\dll

Silvan Scherrer:

--- Quote from: Ian Manners on March 10, 2015, 06:50:24 pm ---I installed the zip versions.
   fontconfig-2_8_0-1_oc00.zip
   freetype-2_5_5-1_oc00.zip
into C:\ecs\dll

--- End quote ---

http://rpm.netlabs.org/release/00/i386/i386/libpng-1.6.16-1.oc00.i386.rpm is also needed. It slipped through when we did the readme. Sorry about that.

regards
Silvan

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