Installing Mozilla

[Dustin Navea]

I was going to file the bug with mozilla, but I wasnt sure of how to 
describe it..  sorry..now I know, but dont know how to describe where it 
is.. would "bug in ntmisc.c: _tzname" be appropriate?

Dustin

Juan Lang wrote:
> --- Uwe Bonnes <bon at elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
> 
>>Is the Mozilla Installer Installshield or MSI based? Otherwise is it
>>open source? Perhaps an easier way to backtrace the problem?
> 
> 
> I believe it's open source.  The crash was due to Mozilla attempting to
> write to a value that's exported by msvcrt.dll.  It was declared in
> msvcrt's spec file, but never defined.  Thus Mozilla was writing to a
> garbage pointer.  It's been fixed in Wine.
> 
> There's a separate issue that Mozilla probably isn't doing the right
> thing.  It's overwriting a buffer it doesn't own and whose size is not
> documented, and it should be writing only four characters but is writing
> more.  Now that Wine is fixed this is unlikely to cause anyone any
> trouble, but it's still not right.
> 
> --Juan
> 
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