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As some of you might know, I had been running a SUSE installation on my machine - and I am using the past tense, since most packages have been (re)compiled locally and updated manually. I consider this to be a GNU/Linux installation "based on" SUSE 9.3. Still, I occasionally use Yast to update packages I am less interested in being "up-to-date" (SUSE is unbearably slow at updating packages!).

Well, a few days ago I decided to update Firefox (in case you wonder why I am less interested in being up-to-date on that one: this is my private machine, it's already enough to have Firefox installed at all), and used Yast to update it to 1.5.07 - as it was offered for download.

All went well - except for the little detail that the SUSE team must have been on crack when they decided to ship the Firefox update with debug turned on

Now I start Firefox and first am greeted with tons of debug lines about registering some components, then some

WARNING: NS_ENSURE_TRUE(NS_SUCCEEDED(rv)) failed, file nsChromeRegistry.cpp, line 1252
GFX: dpi=96 t2p=0.0666667 p2t=15 depth=24
++WEBSHELL == 1
WARNING: NS_ENSURE_TRUE(NS_SUCCEEDED(rv)) failed, file nsPermissionManager.cpp, line 632
++DOMWINDOW == 1
++DOMWINDOW == 2
++WEBSHELL == 2
++DOMWINDOW == 3
++DOMWINDOW == 4

and some

###!!! ASSERTION: Should have the pref service here: 'mSysPrefService',\
file nsSystemPref.cpp, line 611
Break: at file nsSystemPref.cpp, line 611

###!!! ASSERTION: Potential deadlock between Monitor@8c629c0 and Lock@9303940: 'Error',\
file nsAutoLock.cpp, line 302
Break: at file nsAutoLock.cpp, line 302

Finally, when quitting Firefox, we close with

GC Cache:
        hits:  144   30   47   25   83   13   14    7    0    3
        hits: 366, misses: 168, hit percent: 68.539326%
JS engine warning: 24 atoms remain after destroying the JSRuntime.
                   These atoms may point to freed memory. Things reachable
                   through them have not been finalized.
nsStringStats
 => mAllocCount:          12139
 => mReallocCount:         1943
 => mFreeCount:           12137  --  LEAKED 2 !!!
 => mShareCount:          13731
 => mAdoptCount:           1641
 => mAdoptFreeCount:       1597  --  LEAKED 44 !!!

Update:

MozillaFirefox - MozillaFirefox: Use optimized build
The previous MozillaFirefox update was errnously compiled with "debug" enabled,which caused slow downs and did an excessive amount of logging.