FS#41994 - [firefox] Enable the crash reporter

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Lucas Verney (phyks) - Tuesday, 16 September 2014, 18:38 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Friday, 24 March 2017, 17:35 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 7
Private No

Details

Description:

I did not find any issue on the Arch bug tracker, so I open this one. Sorry if this is a duplicate.

As discussed [here](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756743) (quite old bug at Mozilla bugzilla), the crash reporter in Firefox is disabled for the binary in the Arch packages. Thus, it is very difficult to report bugs.

Mozilla guys seemed to be offering to do the necessary so that a crash reporter in Arch Linux would be useful to report crash directly at Mozilla.

I came accross this few days ago, while trying to report a hang in Firefox, but could not provide any debugging report.

Thanks
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Closed by  Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Friday, 24 March 2017, 17:35 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 16 September 2014, 22:33 GMT
Reporting crashes in a 3rd party build is not useful for upstream. We compile with different compilers and flags, use system libraries instead of bundled and to make the disaster complete, our builds don't have debug symbols.
Comment by Lucas Verney (phyks) - Wednesday, 17 September 2014, 00:10 GMT
Yes, I understand it. But they say “If the Arch Linux maintainers are interested, we can get them access to upload symbol files for their Firefox builds to our symbol server, and they can report crashes there. We have that set up for Ubuntu, Fedora, and SuSE. If anyone from Arch is interested in that, I'd be happy to chat about the details.”.

Anyway, in this case, I assume I should report my bug about Firefox here instead of Mozilla bugzilla (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1067079). But I don't have any crash report to add…

Thanks
Comment by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Wednesday, 17 September 2014, 05:00 GMT
Issues are usually also reproducible with the official upstream builds so you can use those to get a crash report.
Comment by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Wednesday, 22 February 2017, 05:09 GMT
Pending working sourcestamps support ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1338099 ) this will get enabled with telemetry.

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