Iceweasel 38.0~a2 has severe problems

[Stefan Huehner]

Hi list,

ist just updated to the 38 aurora version and it is impossible to use in daily work because of severe problems coming up immediately.

Some things i noticed:
- minor: Sessionstore not loaded on startup, + menu item to load recent session not active. Note: After downgrading to 37.0~b1 sessionstore load does work and find olds session

- URL adressbar not updated + back button not working.
  Noticed this on several pages than when navigating a link url bar is not updated.
  I.e. google search for 'iceweasel debian' url bars stay on that google intermediate url and does not update to the final one.

- Context menu of links not working + Middle click to open in new tab.
  Context menu on link (right click) looks very strange.
  Has lots of option spanning all screen vertically.
  Looks like it shows entries from every possible menu instead of only active ones as in example i've seen (items from video control, link, save video, save audio, etc...) on a simple html link.

Sorry for the imprecise description of the bugs but the sheer number of issues caused me to downgrade directly again.


For some of those is somehow suspect the forced move to skia might trigger it.
For reference sysem is running nvidia binary drive 343.36-1 on kernel 3.19/amd64

However i have not been able to test that out myself as rebuilding the 38.0~a2 does not work for me with 2 problems:
- nspr in control file >= 2:4.10.8~ does not exist archive anywhere
- configure fails with following error:

Creating Python environment
checking Python environment is Mozilla virtualenv... Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/huehner/build/iceweasel/iceweasel-38.0~a2+20150227004023/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/base.py", line 17, in <module>
    from mach.mixin.process import ProcessExecutionMixin
  File "/home/huehner/build/iceweasel/iceweasel-38.0~a2+20150227004023/python/mach/mach/mixin/process.py", line 29, in <module>
    raise Exception('Could not detect environment shell!')
Exception: Could not detect environment shell!
configure: error: Python environment does not appear to be sane.


If you need any more info or me to test out patches let me know (assuming someone can help me fix the 38 rebuild)

Stefan

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