Apple's releasing Snow Leopard today. I just want to find out if Firefox is compatible.
Interestingly, the same command seems to work fine if you invoke "firefox-bin" directly. It's only when it comes from the "firefox" Bash script that it fails.
However, a Java program (Selenium-RC) that *does* invoke firefox-bin directly still fails. See http://blog.ragnarson.com/2009/08/upgrading-to-snow-leopard.html.
Doesn't work for me; it starts and 5-6 seconds later bombs out.
Attempting to start in safe mode doesn't work either: Core:~ me$ /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -safe-mode dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libsqlite3.dylib Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/Versions/A/Security Reason: Incompatible library version: Security requires version 9.0.0 or later, but libsqlite3.dylib provides version 1.0.0 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 1635 Trace/BPT trap "$prog" ${1+"$@"} Core:~ me$
Glad I'm not the only one I get that same message. I guess I have to stick to Safari for now.
Many of my friends have no problem so it must be some machine config or something.
I'm getting the same error as you Paul, but while trying to launch firefox -ProfileManager. Don't tell me I can't get my profile and its thousands bookmarks back!!!! ;) However, Firefox launches without problem otherwise.
I'm experiencing this as well. Do those of you who experience it, have macports installed, perhaps? I suspect there might be some relation...
Hi Victor, I have MacFUSE and Octave potentially based on macports, indeed. Do you think it overwrites libsqlite3.dylib with an older version ?
I use SeaMonkey 1.1.17 on a MacBook Air with OSX 10.5.8. I want to upgrade to Snow Leopard but am afraid that SeaMonkey wont work. Are there known compatibility issues? Thanks! :)
Looks like the file /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/libsqlite3.dylib is too old. I was able to get /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox working again by copying the system libsqlite3.dylib into the Firefox.app package.
Run these two commands and you should be good to go (the first mv command is just to save an original version of the file just in case):
mv /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/libsqlite3.dylib /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/libsqlite3.dylib.orig
cp /usr/lib/libsqlite3.dylib /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/libsqlite3.dylib
Hacking sqllite enables safe mode to run but the app is still totally unstable and crashes after a few seconds. This happens if I continue in safe mode, disable and reset everything then continue.
I'm having this problem too. Any fixes planned? Very annoying.
I can't even get firefox to start now. The older version I had was working just fine and now that I tried to download the upgrade, it won't even open. I just upgraded to snow leopard 2 days ago. I even tried to download an older version of firefox and that won't work either.
@matt, superb, thank you!
I found out a bit more... it's because the "firefox" script manipulates DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH so that /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/libsqlite3.dylib takes priority over the one in /usr/lib. If you invoke "firefox-bin" directly, then the default DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH (usually empty) is being used and /usr/lib takes priority.
And it turns out that Selenium-RC shoots itself in the foot by doing the exact same thing! It sets the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH in the same way as the "firefox" shell script and thus gets the same crash :-P.
FYI, I submitted bug 513747 to Mozilla.
I have a user name and password. My wife has a different user name and password. Is there a way to eliminate each one of having to sign in with a pass word. Can you assign an icon to each one of us, and eliminate this?
I submitted SRC-743 to Selenium
I have Firefox working on Snow Leopard. Perfect on 2 machines, on a Macbook Pro 15, it starts behind other windows. I have performed an Archive/Install. No change. Not sure why
@Ben
Did what you posted and it immediately fixed my problem. I was trying to launch profile manager and was getting the libsqlite error.
@Ben Your message totally worked. Thanks a lot
VNiks
Ben's commands worked perfectly, EXCEPT it corrupted my xmarks. After running the commands I began having errors when Xmarks tried to sync. On my windows pc I was able to delete the places.sqlite, places.sqlite-journal, bookmarks.html and bookmarkbackups (folder) and got it to sync again. But, when I tried the same thing on my mac it still didn't work. I had to uninstall the app and all associated files/folders and reinstall. Now Xmarks works on both pc and mac but when I try to open the profile manager on the mac I'm back to it failing. Hopefully mozilla with get this fixed soon!!
Is 3.5.2 compatible with Mac's new Snow Leopard OS?
Firefox version: 3.5.2 GTB5 Operating system: Intel Mac OS X 10.5Firefox user
Apple's releasing Snow Leopard today. I just want to find out if Firefox is compatible.
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