WARNING: latest FC6 gtk2 update breaks Thunderbird & Firefox

[Jim Cornette]

Tim Jackson wrote:
> Just a warning to everyone who uses Thunderbird or Firefox: the latest 
> gtk2 update (gtk2-2.10.8-1.fc6) partially breaks them, at least for some 
> people. Symptom for me was not being able to drag messages in 
> Thunderbird between folders, though apparently it also affects bookmarks 
> in Firefox. See:
> 
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223571
> 
> Personally if you use these apps I would recommend putting the following 
> in your /etc/yum.conf until the above bug is fixed:
> 
> exclude=gtk2 gtk2-devel
> 
> If you've already upgraded and find you've got a broken system, you can 
> download the previous version that works OK (gtk2-2.10.4-10.fc6) from:
> 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/
> 
> and do:
> 
> rpm -Uvh --oldpackage [filename]
> 
> 
> Tim
> 

I'm seeing this bug also with seamonkey for development.

There does seem to be a patch for Thunderbird submitted though. 
Following through the maze of bug references, the patch below was said 
to fix the problem.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=251710

Jim

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