Moz Firefox 0.9 (all versions) general discussion thread.

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

Most of the time, the problem is between the chair and the keyboard.

All's well here.

yngwin · Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 10:37 pm Post subject:

Mirrorball · Apprentice Joined: 25 Apr 2003 Posts: 235 Location: Brazil

John5788 · Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 6:49 am Post subject:

oh wow. i just emerged firefox .9 and its hell of a lot faster than firefox .8
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Stormy Eyes · Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 1:00 pm Post subject:

I got the "No running window found" issue with the 0.9-r1 source build. Running as root first didn't help, As root, I nuked /home/matthew/.mozilla and then manually created ~/.mozilla and copied ~/.phoenix to ~/.mozilla/firefox. 0.9 didn't recognise any of my settings or bookmarks, but the damned thing runs now instead of whining about "No running window found" and quitting.

Now that I've got it working, I like it. But I've got to do something about this horrible default theme; I wonder if I can use the Lila theme in 0.9...

Mirrorball · Apprentice Joined: 25 Apr 2003 Posts: 235 Location: Brazil

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placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

I'm using the Mostly Crystal theme, and seeing that my ROX and GTK icons are also from the crystal set, it works nice and I am glad that I can use it.

Guest · Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 11:08 pm Post subject:

Being that I have a peskey and rare compile failure for this I went ahead and took to binary. Very snappy. What's wrong with the theme? I can't see anything there to get passionate about, either for or against. Very plain indeed.

Pwnz3r:
What is this Rox theme you are using? You have me interested now. You are under Fluxbox, gtk1/2 right?

Mirrorball · Apprentice Joined: 25 Apr 2003 Posts: 235 Location: Brazil

What about a tab that can't be closed and the location bar not getting updated sometimes?

And Firefox tells me there are two open tabs when there is only one.

ScubaStreb · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 118

j3rm · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 9:37 pm Post subject: bah, stupid fonts!

Ok, I've looked around other posts, and I've tried making the anti-aliasing kick in, but I'm just not getting anywhere. The fonts just look bad. I may re-emerge 0.8 again until this issue is resolved, because this is rather aggrevating.
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Given M. Sur · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 9:44 pm Post subject: Re: bah, stupid fonts!

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

Oddly enough, the 0.9 release is working perfectly for me. If anyone has any problems that they just can't fix then PM me (I honestly am helpful sometimes).

viperlin · Veteran Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 1319 Location: UK

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b0fh · Guru Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Posts: 426

I've emerged firefox 0.9-r1, but I can't start it...

Mnemia · Guru Joined: 17 May 2002 Posts: 476

OK, I've got a serious problem with the 0.9-r1 release from source...

It works great for a while; things are very fast and snappy and there are no big problems to report. But after it's been left open a couple of hours, it almost invariably grinds to a halt, consuming 100% of my CPU. It's not using any abnormal amount of RAM when it does that, either, and in any case that shouldn't be a problem on this machine (P4 2.8 GHz, 1 GB RAM). It just uses the whole CPU until I close or kill it. Oddly enough, it doesn't COMPLETELY hang when this happens; it still works, but very very slowly (taking 10-20 seconds to redraw the window if you move it). Everything else on my machine runs fine when it does this, with almost no slowdown; gotta love the 2.6 kernels.

Also, I've been having a weird X issue that I'm not sure is being caused by Firefox or not. Periodically, when I'm scrolling down a webpage with the arrow keys, my mouse will just freeze completely, although Firefox still responds to keyboard command. If I switch to a text console and back to X, it fixes it. This happens only intermittently (every few hours), and I've only seen it happen while using Firefox 0.9. I've never seen an app cause X to do something like that before, but t never happened before I installed Firefox. Go figure.

I unmerged it and I'm now trying the binary ebuild. I haven't seen either of the problems crop up yet, but I haven't been using it for very long yet either. I wasn't using any really exotic CFLAGS or anything like that; just -march, -pipe, -fomit-frame-pointer, and -O2. I also was careful about cleaning out my profile, etc...

Anyone else have troubles like this? If I still have these problems with the binary ebuild I think I'm going to drop down to 0.8 or switch to Mozilla 1.7 (which is very stable, but uses more RAM and is a little slower wrt UI).

Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

Guest · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 8:04 pm Post subject:

yngwin · Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 5:39 pm Post subject:

You can try removing the source tarball from /usr/portage/distfiles, making sure you have conservative cflags and try again. Alternatively you can try my svg-enabled binary builds at http://pryan.org/mozilla/firefox/lokean/0.9/ (no ebuild, just untar where you want, for example your home directory)

j3rm · Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 6:40 am Post subject: Re: bah, stupid fonts!

yngwin · Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:19 am Post subject:

Good news: there will be a bug-fix 0.9.1 release within the next few days!

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

I've left Firefox 0.9 open for around four hours without problems. Perhaps it's an extension that makes it use so many clock cycles after a while?

Mnemia · Guru Joined: 17 May 2002 Posts: 476