[Conkeror] [BUG] Resolving doesn't work in xulrunner/conkeror but everything else works

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:38 AM, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
<jeremy at jeremyms.com> wrote:
> "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I installed xulrunner-1.9.0.2pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2 from the
>> nightly builds on Ubuntu Hardy and ran conkeror under it. accessing
>> websites as IP addresses works but the resolver in xulrunner behaves
>> as though DNS isn't working on the machine ("Address not found"). DNS
>> works normally for everything else (dig, ping, firefox, etc.).
>
>> Why would xulrunner not be picking up the DNS settings in
>> /etc/resolv.conf? This has also happened with other xulrunner builds
>> from ~2 weeks and ~1 month ago on the same machine.
>
> You could try using the Firefox xulrunner using:
>
> firefox -app /path/to/conkeror/application.ini

The firefox on that system isn't of the xulrunner kind, and in any
case that wouldn't solve the  problem of the resolver in the xulrunner
in nightlies having a broken resolver on that system.