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Other Firefox Dynasty - Firefox for OS X 10.8+ (Also, Web App Templates!)

I've now completed my first round of testing, attempting to upgrade Dynasty v. 135.01 via direct downloads from Github (i.e., not using the downloader pref pane, which I have not yet reinstalled - also FWIW, these downloads were all accomplished in Pale Moon, from which I am also posting this reply). I have the following results:

Version 136.01: downloaded, installed (by replacing/overwriting the older version), and launched without issue.​
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Version 137.0b5: Downloaded, installed (same way), and launched without issue.​
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Version 137.02: Here's where it hung up. Downloaded & installed as per the above, but would not launch. By all appearances, same problem as before.​
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That's where I'll stop for today. More testing to come. Thanks again all!
 
@Raging Dufus Please write this up in a Github issue including detailed hardware information and if possible a screen recording for i3roly. He generally really dislikes getting bugs he can't reproduce, but I think that since you've found the first version where it breaks, he'll have something to go off of.
 
Wowfunhappy said:
@Raging Dufus Please write this up in a Github issue including detailed hardware information and if possible a screen recording for i3roly. He generally really dislikes getting bugs he can't reproduce, but I think that since you've found the first version where it breaks, he'll have something to go off of.
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I'll do that if I can't resolve it on my own. But Dynasty falling down on me @ v. 137.02 is curious, because 137.02 is the version I was using, without issue, before I ever had the problem in the first place (back before I reinstalled Mavericks). My problems first started when I tried upgrading 137 to 138. So I'm not sure I have identified the version where things break down for me - it may not be a version-specific problem at all. More testing will tell. Thanks!
 
Wowfunhappy said:
Probably not. On Lion there is a specific bug in the kernel which Firefox was triggering. The bug is still there (and it probably does exist on Snow Leopard too), but i3roly found a way to avoid triggering it.

This type of thing is an absolute last resort when there appears to be no other option. Obviously for Firefox Dynasty there was another option, but we didn't know that at the time.
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ohh, alright. thank you! still super happy that SL will soon be able to use modern sites faster.
 
UPDATE: I’m posting this from a successfully installed and working Firefox Dynasty v. 137.0.1 (which as you can see reports itself as “Firefox 137.0.2” - a discrepancy also noted by others here):

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Anyway, this seems to be as far as I can go right now. I repeated the steps used in Post #111 above with almost every version of Dynasty between 135.0.1 and the latest release, 138.0.1. Nothing after this one will launch, so it does seem to be a version-specific problem beginning with the download labeled FIREFOX_137_0_2_RELEASE and carried forward from that point.

As suggested by @Wowfunhappy, I did create a Github issue for this problem. I’m also pleased to report that Wowfunhappy’s downloader pref pane seems to have nothing to do with the issue, since the versions that work or don’t work on my machine display the same behavior whether downloaded directly or via the pref pane.

I’m letting this go for now. Hopefully the developer will be able to correct the issue, but if not I’ll continue using this version and be happy about it. Thanks again everyone for your help. :)
 
Some weird stuff is going on in Firefox Dynasty on Lion when playing videos from FB, YouTube and, possibly, other platforms. As you play a clip, the video stream appears as a red background with only audio available. Striking along the playback timeline bar reveals thumbnails containing the actual frames. However, all you see is that red background. When you click the notification bell, the video becomes normal for a fraction of a second, obscured by the menu. Once the notification pop-up list goes, so does the video.
 
I made a screen recording of what happens when I try to update Firefox Dynasty 137_0_1 (which works on my MBP) to 137_0_2 (which doesn't), to hopefully enlighten people responding to my Github issue. I couldn't get it uploaded there, but it would upload here, so if you're interested please see attached.

EDIT: Adding other screen recordings as requested on Github. Hiding these behind a spoiler to try and minimize the impact on this thread.



 
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maverick28 said:
Some weird stuff is going on in Firefox Dynasty on Lion when playing videos from FB, YouTube and, possibly, other platforms. As you play a clip, the video stream appears as a red background with only audio available. Striking along the playback timeline bar reveals thumbnails containing the actual frames. However, all you see is that red background. When you click the notification bell, the video becomes normal for a fraction of a second, obscured by the menu. Once the notification pop-up list goes, so does the video.
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Have you tried going into Settings → Performance → Uncheck "Use recommended performance settings" → Uncheck "Use hardware acceleration when available"?


(I assume this would disable hardware accelerated video decoding, but if not there's a chance you'll also need to tweak an about:config flag.)
 
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