FS#51130 - [firefox] Fix widevine crash

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by userwithuid (userwithuid) - Saturday, 01 October 2016, 00:56 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Sunday, 27 November 2016, 04:55 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Upstream patch: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/11a470398b1f
Upstream bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303813

This might be enough to make widevine work without the MOZ_DISABLE_GMP_SANDBOX=1 workaround. [1]

Looks like a small enough fix to apply for Arch instead of waiting for a point release upstream (currently not even uplifted to beta yet), but idk.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox_tweaks#Widevine_and_Netflix.2FAmazon_Video
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Sunday, 27 November 2016, 04:55 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  firefox 50

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