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sacarde

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Registered: 2025-09-25

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executing firefox

hi,
   after installing firefox 114.0.2-1.0
when I start it:

$ firefox
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so:
libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load XPCOM.

(libxml2.so.2 => not found)

$ pacman -Ql libxml2|grep libxml2.so
libxml2 /usr/lib/libxml2.so
libxml2 /usr/lib/libxml2.so.16
libxml2 /usr/lib/libxml2.so.16.0.4

thanks

sacarde

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Registered: 2025-09-25

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Re: executing firefox

I install: libxml2-legacy 2.13.9-1.0

it seems to work

p.s.
not completely !

when I try to add a secutiry/devices --> load module --> firefox is closing

...
Redirecting call to abort() to mozalloc_abort

ExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 4396
ExceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to child
ExceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal...
Exiting due to channel error.
Exiting due to channel error.
Exiting due to channel error.
Exiting due to channel error.
Exiting due to channel error.
[sacarde@archlinux ~]$ 
(crashreporter:4397): Gtk-WARNING **: 16:41:05.973: Could not load a pixbuf from /org/gtk/libgtk/theme/Adwaita/assets/check-symbolic.svg.
This may indicate that pixbuf loaders or the mime database could not be found.
**
Gtk:ERROR:../gtk/gtk/gtkiconhelper.c:495:ensure_surface_for_gicon: assertion failed (error == NULL): Failed to load /usr/share/icons/AdwaitaLegacy/16x16/status/image-missing.png: Unrecognized image file format (gdk-pixbuf-error-quark, 3)
Bail out! Gtk:ERROR:../gtk/gtk/gtkiconhelper.c:495:ensure_surface_for_gicon: assertion failed (error == NULL): Failed to load /usr/share/icons/AdwaitaLegacy/16x16/status/image-missing.png: Unrecognized image file format (gdk-pixbuf-error-quark, 3)

Last edited by sacarde (2025-11-02 16:42:28)

abaumann

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Re: executing firefox

What happens, if you install adwaita-icon-theme-legacy?

abaumann

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Re: executing firefox

There is also still the option to install AURs firefox-bin (at least for now there still are 32-bit binaries from Mozilla - this will end,
see:
https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases … d-in-2026/

I doubt, that after this we will even be able to build firefox on our own on Arch32.

sacarde

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Re: executing firefox

- I have already installed adwaita-icon-theme-legacy 46.2-3.0

- do you think the problem is the lack of the sse2 flag on the CPU?

- what do you think from AUR: firefox-bin or bin32-firefox-bin

abaumann

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Re: executing firefox

I was aware of firefox-bin. If SSE2 would be a hard dependency, then the binaries woudln't even start and not throw those errors..

sacarde

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Re: executing firefox

<bill-auger tell me>

"Architetture = i686" in pacman.conf

then: pacman -Syyuu

but dont resolv

sacarde

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Re: executing firefox

I reinstall from scratch with architetture i686

now firefox seems to work ok