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Jerome's issue (in the linked, linked thread) was that he needed to rebuild freshplayerplugin-git as it was linked against an old version of ICU. See https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/palemoon/?O=30&PP=10#comment-623566

Rebuild your freshplayer and see if you still get crashes.

@WorMzy yup. been there. done that.

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=21671&p=164063#p164063

Edit: palemoon is incompatible with freshplayerplugin. remove any incarnation of this package and palemoon runs.

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=17638

If you suspect a bug in the palemoon code, then your best bet is to seek support from the palemoon devs. Since you can reproduce the crash with the palemoon-bin package, get them a stacktrace from that (they are unlikely to respond well to a crash report from an independent build, even if it is their code that's getting built).

@WorMzy I'm using the latest version of libxt - even downloaded the source from xorg and rebuilt it to make sure. same problem.

the output from pacman -Qkk libxt:

libxt: 340 total files, 0 altered files

i'll check the latest update and see if it changes anything. i have a debug build of palemoon to work with, but it still shows some optimizations even though as far as i could tell, all optimization was turned off via mozconfig.in - so, i can't see all variable/parameter values when i run a backtrace in gdb.

this issue has apparently come up a number of times with palemoon. unfortunately, it appears that as soon as someone identifies libxt as the issue, all discussion in the relevant threads abruptly ends providing no solutions.

Edit: i wouldn;t assume there's something wrong with my system. it could be that i have the latest version of something installed that interacts badly with a bug in palemoon. because i maintain my own distro, i have to keep every package up to date, all the time.

No problems here (package built Mon 25 Feb 2019). Will try rebuilding, but since you have the same issue with the -bin package, I would guess there's an issue on your system.

pacman -Qkk libxt would be a good place to start checking.

EDIT: Rebuild completed with no change in behaviour.

This version (28.4.0) crashes (SEGV) when loading libXt.so - so does the binary package, btw.

Thanks for this flag. I am indeed Away From Keyboard, but I have my laptop with my ssh keys on it this time, so update pushed. :)

Thanks for the heads up, haawda. Update pushed.

Well, palemoon 28.3.0 obviously was quite shortliving, there now is 28.3.1. The "quick version bump"-Method applies here, too.

Sorry for the delay, I've pushed the update out now.

I fully expect the next PM release to be around the end of February, as that's when I go to Japan for two weeks. :P

EDIT: Thanks for confirming that in the interim, barius.