[Bug 383670] Re: thunderbird-bin crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp() when using Google Provider extension

[gpd5]

I tried filing this with them and they told me that, since my
thunderbird, lightning, and Google Provider extensions were all
installed from the Ubuntu respository, I should file it here.

This is exactly one of the reasons why the open-source model breaks down
for the average user.  Each party is pointing their finger at the other,
and no one is under any real obligation to fix a problem that has been
confirmed by multiple users. And this comes a full 2.5 months after I
originally filed this case!

I certainly appreciate the time and effort everyone who works on these
projects contributes to them, but when so many of the ones I try to use
on a daily basis have bugs with no fix in site, well, it's hard to not
get discouraged and go back to using commercial software.

At any rate, thanks for looking at this.  I doubt I will continue
chasing after a solution I'm unlikely to get, so it's ultimately up to
me to decide whether I want to move back to commercial software or if
I'm going to stop complaining and just learn to live with the benefits
and detriments of the open-source ecosystem.

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thunderbird-bin crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp() when using Google Provider extension
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