[PC-BSD Testing] Firefox 3.5.7 won't attach files to GMail

[Kris Moore]

On 02/23/2010 11:08, Ian Robinson wrote:
> Re:  PCBSD 8.0-RELEASE, versions x86 and x64
>
> Firefox 3.5.7 that comes with the installation disk does not let me attach
> files to Gmail.  The error message is "Attachment Failed".  It is 100 %
> repeatable on both the x86 platform and x64 platform, so it is not a problem
> unique to a single computer.
>
> Attaching files to Gmail was never a problem using FF 3.5.5, 3.5.6, or 3.5.7
> in the -ALPHA, BETA, RC, or RC2 versions.  I'm running FF 3.5.7 on several
> other computers that run PCBSD 7.1.1, and it is not a problem there.
>
> Konqueror will let me attach files to Gmail, so this is not necessarily a
> PCBSD problem.  The Firefox PBI may be the source of the problem.
>
>
> Ian Robinson
> Salem, Ohio

I had this problem as well here, was able to fix it by going into gmail 
settings -> general -> attachments and changing to "basic". From what I 
understand, its a flash issue, possibly because of flash 10 in the base 
system. FF 3.5.8 and 3.6 should be building as PBI's in a few days 
though, we'll have to re-test with those and see if it corrects it :)

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Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software
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