[arch-general] Firefox Fullscreen Fix

[Jan de Groot]

On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 09:51 -0400, Andrei Thorp wrote:
> Excerpts from solsTiCe d'Hiver's message of Fri Aug 07 00:44:03 -0400 2009:
> > > export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1
> > 
> > that fix was working for me since i upgraded to firefox 3.5
> > 
> > but since the update of nvidia driver recently and firefox update too.
> > this fix does not work ANYMORE.
> 
> Hmm, works for me (I upgraded my nvidia/kernel/xorg/firefox/flashplayer
> yesterday). Maybe it's somewhat dependent on card :/
> 
> > look at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496831
> > and other duplicated bug reports
> > 
> > it is supposed to be fixed. so it's coming in some near future
> 
> Okay, thanks very much for that. I guess I won't file a bug report with
> us as it's an upstream issue (kind of why I was asking). We can
> technically "fix" it by adding a wrapper to our firefox package to do
> that hack, but I'm pretty sure I agree with Aaron (and the devs in
> general) in that we should just wait for the aforementioned fix.
> 

We already had such a bug, and I closed it as upstream, as it has
something to do with two non-free components that we can't fix. Seems
mozilla wants to work this around inside firefox, so it's just to wait
for a version that includes their workaround.