mozilla-firefox-1.0_pre issues

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feardapenguin · Post by **feardapenguin** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 3:20 am

Is anyone else seeing these problems in 1.0_pre?

1) Changes to preferences returns message "Failed to save the preferences file...". I've checked permissions and don't see a problem.
2) Default theme cannot be changed. (Yes, I've tried restarting firefox.)
3) Arrow keys do not move the cursor within a text box (such as the one I am typing this message into). The arrow keys only affect the horizontal scroll of the window.

BTW, does mozilla-firefox on a Gentoo distro use the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory or is it still using ~/.phoenix (or both)? Can ~/.phoenix be deleted?

Gandalf the White · Post by **Gandalf the White** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 3:27 am

1) Works fine
2) Works fine
3) Works fine

As for the directories, I'm not certain, but I am thinking it still uses both as this is was a fresh install of firefox and both directories exist.

WWhateley · Post by **WWhateley** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 3:33 am

I had all those problems, but I deleted ~/.mozilla/firefox and ~/.phoenix and they went away.

.phoenix wasn't recreated, so I guess it is unneccessary.

feardapenguin · Post by **feardapenguin** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 3:48 am

Yep, I renamed both user directories and the problems magically vanished (along with my cookies, passwords, etc).

ender11782 · Post by **ender11782** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 7:55 am

I have problem 1), and problem 3) except that I can't do anything at all with arrows or the Home or End keys in text fields. Furthermore, I get the msg markUtils.resolveType(item);--------------^ when trying to add bookmarks, and ent/browser/aboutDialogue.xulUT---^ with Help...About. Waaah!

Don't think I'm too crazy about the idea of deleting my directories.

loki99 · Post by **loki99** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 11:17 am

what you really should do is deleting compreg.dat in your profile dir. same goes for thunderbird-0.8. fixed everything for me!

link: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php? ... hunderbird

Rainmaker · Post by **Rainmaker** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 11:51 am

I have problem 1, and 3 with the Home and Isert keys. Pretty anoying. You never know how much you use them until they stop working

Rainmaker · Post by **Rainmaker** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 11:54 am

YES that fixed it. Thanks for the tip.

avtryck · Post by **avtryck** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 1:08 pm

Thanks a lot loki99. Your tip helped me as well. Nice to see that all my passwords were still there.

-Jimmy

loki99 · Post by **loki99** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 1:32 pm

that i could help!

SNo0py · Post by **SNo0py** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:07 pm

Hm... I don't have this file in my .phoenix directory and I don't have a .firefox directory at all

dogshu · Post by **dogshu** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:42 pm

SNo0py: Look under .mozilla/firefox

miqorz · Post by **miqorz** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:45 pm

I use mozilla-firefox-bin simply because it's less prone to little accidents.

The ONLY issues I've experienced in it are, Quate theme no longer works.

And find no longer works.

I'm -okay- with this so far. Allthough I'd like Quate.

manny15 · Post by **manny15** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:58 pm

I just noticed a pop-up from netscape managed to slip thru. I'm not sure what I did to bring it up. I simply logged out from netscape mail, which then I got redirected to the netscape.com homepage (like usual). But when I close that particular tab, though it closed like it should, I got a pop-up. It's been forever since I've seen one of those! I've heard of one other site that slipped a pop-up in the past, but I don't remember which one it was so I could test it now. I think it's aol.com. Go to the site, then close the tab/window.

I don't have any sites in the allowed list

bverheg · Post by **bverheg** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 7:55 pm

I had the same problem as ender11782: Trying to add a bookmark pops up a "markUtils.resolveType(item).." message.
I suspected that some installed extension might be the culprit.
So I upgraded the Adblock extension and re-installed the Tabbrowser Extensions, and the problem was solved.
(I don't know which of the two cured the problem though).

xsak · Post by **xsak** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 8:19 pm

Ctrl-F find doesn't work.
Highlighting does.

TenPin · Post by **TenPin** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:33 am

The only problem I have with FF0.10 is that switching between tabs now has an unnecessarily long delay. I'm going to re-emerge 0.93 and see if it really has slowed down. It should be instant though because I'm using a P4 2.4Ghz with 512Mb.

HomerSimpson · Post by **HomerSimpson** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 2:48 am

xsak wrote:Ctrl-F find doesn't work.
Highlighting does.

Ctrl-F doesn't work for me either. That is no dialog pops up but then a little find text box at the bottom left appears. It doesn't seem to find anything though

balk · Post by **balk** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 10:32 am

HomerSimpson wrote:
xsak wrote:Ctrl-F find doesn't work.
Highlighting does.
Ctrl-F doesn't work for me either. That is no dialog pops up but then a little find text box at the bottom left appears. It doesn't seem to find anything though

and that's the most anoying thing. I _love_ the use of 'F3' when searching in long pages. (multi-page topics here for instance). I tried as another user on my box but the problem stays the same. (so no problems in the user directories)

rebuilding firefox right now. Maybe a binary install if problem persists

HomerSimpson · Post by **HomerSimpson** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 11:43 pm

On bugzilla someone submitted a patch for the ebuild. It worked for me. I can search again!

blixel · Post by **blixel** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:38 am

loki99 wrote:what you really should do is deleting compreg.dat in your profile dir. same goes for thunderbird-0.8. fixed everything for me!

Thanks man. That solved my problem as well.

Another topic: About CTRL+F, it doesn't work on mine either. Hopefully this will be addressed before 1.0 final/official. That's a pretty major thing to not have working.

JackBak · Post by **JackBak** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:02 am

Odd the CTRL-F thing. works fine for me with 1.0 pre-release

dioxmat · Post by **dioxmat** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:08 am

To all people having search problems:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64196

Suktas_ · Post by **Suktas_** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:39 am

I get this error when firefox tries to show flash:

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The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 344 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

and when i run it with --sync:

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firefox --sync
/usr/bin/firefox: line 87: 28411 Segmentation fault      $mozbin "$@"

what's the problem?

Stieltje · Post by **Stieltje** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 4:31 pm

is there any security reasons to switch to this version of mozilla-firefox?

this version is waaay to buggy for daily use, waiting for the 1.0 stable...

and does anyone agree on that firefox where alot snappier and faster in the firebird days? Ie is firefox getting bloated?