Console messages: deprecated functions et al

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Alter

10 Apr, 2013 03:46 PM

Hi! I'm running TFF (the pre-compiled, civilian-use download for G5) on my G5 (dual 2GHz, 10.5.8). My computer just experienced a kernel panic, and just before that TFF had been misbehaving (taking forever for the Print dialog box to respond to mouse clicks, something it does way too much - but that's probably for another discussion).

After rebooting, I logged on as admin and opened up system.log in Console. There are two messages that repeat themselves over and over and over:

Apr 10 11:18:54 alter [0x0-0x40040].com.floodgap.tenfourfox[399]: warning: The global onMessage function in content scripts is deprecated in favor of the self.on() function. Replace onMessage = function (data){} definitions with calls to self.on('message', function (data){}). For more info on self.on, see https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/sdk/latest/dev-guide/addon-development/web-content.html.

Apr 10 11:18:56 alter [0x0-0x40040].com.floodgap.tenfourfox[399]: warning: The global postMessage() function in content scripts is deprecated in favor of the self.postMessage() function, which works the same. Replace calls to postMessage() with calls to self.postMessage().For more info on self.on, see https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/sdk/latest/dev-guide/addon-development/web-content.html.

Is this a TFF code-related issue, or is there something on my end I need to fix?

Thanks!


P.S.: When I launched TFF just now, it produced two other Console messages in system.log:

Apr 10 11:33:55 alter firefox[246]: *** Assertion failure in -[BaseWindow _changeJustMain], /SourceCache/AppKit/AppKit-949.54/AppKit.subproj/NSWindow.m:8598  
Apr 10 11:33:55 alter firefox[246]: Mozilla has caught an Obj-C exception [NSInternalInconsistencyException: Invalid parameter not satisfying: [self canBecomeMainWindow]]
  1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Cameron Kaiser on 11 Apr, 2013 03:29 AM

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    You have two separate issues. The "deprecated warning" message is generally due to an out-of-date extension (the specific functions you mention are part of Jetpack). For example, an old version of the QuickTime Enabler could cause this.

    The second one is a new one on me, but suggests a system issue. I've certainly never seen that issue on startup. A crash like that is deep within the application runtime.

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