Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox fails to compile. crc32 error??

2023-11-23 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 23 November 2023 11:06:25 GMT Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >> Am 23. November 2023 08:08:47 UTC schrieb Dale : >>> Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Looks like it is related to -march=native. See bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/838373 >>> I'm not sure how you figured that

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox fails to compile. crc32 error??

2023-11-23 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 23 November 2023 11:06:25 GMT Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Am 23. November 2023 08:08:47 UTC schrieb Dale : > >Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > >> Looks like it is related to -march=native. > >> > >> See bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/838373 > > > >I'm not sure how you figured that out either. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox fails to compile. crc32 error??

2023-11-23 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Am 23. November 2023 08:08:47 UTC schrieb Dale : >Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >> Looks like it is related to -march=native. >> >> See bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/838373 >> > >I'm not sure how you figured that out either.  I pasted the error message into the search engine of my choice. I think there

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox fails to compile. crc32 error??

2023-11-23 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Looks like it is related to -march=native. > > See bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/838373 > Nailed it.  After the post by Michael, I edited the kernel several times.  I'm sure I ruled that thing out.  I had some crc stuff not there but same error with or without.  I admit,

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox fails to compile. crc32 error??

2023-11-22 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Looks like it is related to -march=native. See bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/838373 -- Regards Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox fails to compile. crc32 error??

2023-11-22 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 22 November 2023 02:27:01 GMT Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I decided to set up the 770T as a backup system. I'm installing the >> basics that I would need to get started. The water heater set back my >> new build a bit. Anyway, Firefox fails to build with something

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox fails to compile. crc32 error??

2023-11-22 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 22 November 2023 02:27:01 GMT Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I decided to set up the 770T as a backup system. I'm installing the > basics that I would need to get started. The water heater set back my > new build a bit. Anyway, Firefox fails to build with something about a > missing

[gentoo-user] Firefox fails to compile. crc32 error??

2023-11-21 Thread Dale
Howdy, I decided to set up the 770T as a backup system.  I'm installing the basics that I would need to get started. The water heater set back my new build a bit.  Anyway, Firefox fails to build with something about a missing crc32.  I found a package with that name and installed it, thought

[gentoo-user] Firefox multiple language sources

2023-04-12 Thread Michael
I've noticed for some time now Firefox is downloading endless language source files, random example: * firefox-102.10.0esr-sco.xpi BLAKE2B SHA512 size ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Downloading 'http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/gentoo/distfiles/34/ firefox-102.10.0esr-si.xpi'

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox to LOCalc characterset translation

2022-03-27 Thread tastytea
On 2022-03-27 23:13+0100 Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 27 March 2022 23:04:21 BST tastytea wrote: > > On 2022-03-27 22:35+0100 Michael wrote: > > > I can't explain why the following cut 'n paste problem happens > > > when I select some symbols within text in Firefox and then try to > > > insert

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox to LOCalc characterset translation

2022-03-27 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 27 March 2022 23:04:21 BST tastytea wrote: > On 2022-03-27 22:35+0100 Michael wrote: > > I can't explain why the following cut 'n paste problem happens when I > > select some symbols within text in Firefox and then try to insert by > > middle-click in LibreOffice Calc. > > > > If I

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox to LOCalc characterset translation

2022-03-27 Thread tastytea
On 2022-03-27 22:35+0100 Michael wrote: > I can't explain why the following cut 'n paste problem happens when I > select some symbols within text in Firefox and then try to insert by > middle-click in LibreOffice Calc. > > If I select the symbols for £ (GBP), or € (Euro) and middle click > upon

[gentoo-user] Firefox to LOCalc characterset translation

2022-03-27 Thread Michael
I can't explain why the following cut 'n paste problem happens when I select some symbols within text in Firefox and then try to insert by middle-click in LibreOffice Calc. If I select the symbols for £ (GBP), or € (Euro) and middle click upon a cell in LOCalc, a window pops up asking "Select

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox automatic update??? [RESOLVED]

2020-11-12 Thread n952162
I discovered that I had significant filesystem corruption. On 11/12/20 10:47 AM, n952162 wrote: So, /usr/lib/firefox/firefox runs, and is writable only by root.  But it can't be that the full firefox functionality gets executed in 239364 bytes! $ type firefox firefox is

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox automatic update???

2020-11-12 Thread n952162
So, /usr/lib/firefox/firefox runs, and is writable only by root.  But it can't be that the full firefox functionality gets executed in 239364 bytes! $ type firefox firefox is /usr/bin/firefox $  which -a  firefox /usr/bin/firefox $ ll /usr/bin/firefox lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox automatic update???

2020-11-12 Thread Andreas Fink
Hmm, interesting that it shows not the full path on one machine. This should always show you the full path: for p in `pgrep firefox` ; do ls -lh /proc/${p}/exe ; done You could also check with the following command what will be executed: which firefox Use `which -a firefox` to see all possible

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox automatic update???

2020-11-12 Thread n952162
Ah, that is a good point ... assuming there's not an suid-updater squirreled away somewhere.  I'm pretty sure that I've run firefox (lots) since last rebuilding it on the machine in question. Your test is good, but yields new questions: - machine 1: $ pgrep -a firefox *2829

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox automatic update???

2020-11-12 Thread Fosco
I get notifications from firefox that an updates are available. Once I wondered if it would be able to update and I pushed the update button, it failed (likely in escalading the auths, as Andreas pointed). To get rid of long compilation of firefox, I use www-client/firefox-bin. The emerged

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox automatic update???

2020-11-11 Thread Andreas Fink
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 07:55:18 +0100 n952162 wrote: > I was just informed by firefox on one of my gentoo machines that firefox > has updated, I need to restart. > > I no longer find an option to disable automatic update.  Is there no hope? > > And do I have to go through another 18 hour firefox

[gentoo-user] firefox automatic update???

2020-11-11 Thread n952162
I was just informed by firefox on one of my gentoo machines that firefox has updated, I need to restart. I no longer find an option to disable automatic update.  Is there no hope? And do I have to go through another 18 hour firefox emerge to get rid of their "update"?  Or is their binary

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

2020-05-07 Thread Gerion Entrup
Am Dienstag, 5. Mai 2020, 18:38:26 CEST schrieb tu...@posteo.de: > On 05/05 11:22, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > > On 2020-05-05 10:38, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > Is Firefox/Waterfox able to interface with jackd? > > > > Disclaimer, I do not use Jack. > > > > Firefox builds, in my personal

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

2020-05-05 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:33:29 BST Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:43 AM Dale wrote: >> >> >> >>> Question, somewhat off topic but somewhat on topic. I use smplayer to >> send my videos to my TV using the second port on my video card. I set >> smplayer to send

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

2020-05-05 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On 2020-05-05 13:00, Michael wrote: I use FF-68.7.0-r1 with USE="-pulseaudio" and it works fine producing sound. I stand corrected then. I wasn't able to get FF audio working without the pulseaudio use flag, but that may have been because I was trying to do so while still having pulse

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

2020-05-05 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:33:29 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:43 AM Dale wrote: > > > > > Question, somewhat off topic but somewhat on topic. I use smplayer to > > send my videos to my TV using the second port on my video card. I set > smplayer to send the audio to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

2020-05-05 Thread tuxic
On 05/05 10:34, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:38 AM wrote: > > > Background to my question: > > I am still searching for a equalizer solution, which does not > > uses the eq provided by the hardware (I am using a DAC, which > > does nothing else, than converting PCM into an

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

2020-05-05 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:43 AM Dale > wrote: > > > > > > > Question, somewhat off topic but somewhat on topic.  I use smplayer > to send my videos to my TV using the second port on my video card.  I > set smplayer to send the audio to the TV,

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

2020-05-05 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:34:29 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:38 AM wrote: > > > > Background to my question: > > I am still searching for a equalizer solution, which does not > > uses the eq provided by the hardware (I am using a DAC, which > > does nothing else, than

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

2020-05-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:38 AM wrote: > Background to my question: > I am still searching for a equalizer solution, which does not > uses the eq provided by the hardware (I am using a DAC, which > does nothing else, than converting PCM into an analog signal. > No processing whatsoever. > > So

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

2020-05-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:43 AM Dale wrote: > > > Question, somewhat off topic but somewhat on topic. I use smplayer to send my videos to my TV using the second port on my video card. I set smplayer to send the audio to the TV, instead of my puter speakers. I've never used pulseaudio but with

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

2020-05-05 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:22 AM Matt Connell (Gmail) > mailto:matthewdconn...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > On 2020-05-05 10:38, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > Is Firefox/Waterfox able to interface with jackd? > > > > Disclaimer, I do not use Jack. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

2020-05-05 Thread tuxic
On 05/05 11:22, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > On 2020-05-05 10:38, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Is Firefox/Waterfox able to interface with jackd? > > Disclaimer, I do not use Jack. > > Firefox builds, in my personal experience, are intended to be used with > pulseaudio and only pulseaudio. Some

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

2020-05-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:22 AM Matt Connell (Gmail) < matthewdconn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2020-05-05 10:38, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Is Firefox/Waterfox able to interface with jackd? > > Disclaimer, I do not use Jack. > > Firefox builds, in my personal experience, are intended to be used

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

2020-05-05 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On 2020-05-05 10:38, tu...@posteo.de wrote: Is Firefox/Waterfox able to interface with jackd? Disclaimer, I do not use Jack. Firefox builds, in my personal experience, are intended to be used with pulseaudio and only pulseaudio. Some people have made some shims for making it worth with

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

2020-05-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 8:38 AM wrote: > > Is Firefox/Waterfox able to interface with jackd? > > Cheers! > Meino > Personally, meaning my thoughts having used Jack for years, is that you'd be asking for an insane numbers of problems and never ending disappointments if you went this way. That

[gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

2020-05-05 Thread tuxic
Hi, to prevent a lot of installation and configuration effort only to recognize, that it does not work: Is Firefox/Waterfox able to interface with jackd? Cheers! Meino

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox again - sad

2020-04-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 13 April 2020 11:15:26 BST Michael wrote: > On Monday, 13 April 2020 11:08:30 BST Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > After the latest Firefox update (68.7.0), when I try to open the menu > > with F10, sometimes Firefox crashes (about the 3rd time today now). > > Does anyone else see that? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox again - sad

2020-04-13 Thread Michael
On Monday, 13 April 2020 11:08:30 BST Ian Zimmerman wrote: > After the latest Firefox update (68.7.0), when I try to open the menu > with F10, sometimes Firefox crashes (about the 3rd time today now). > Does anyone else see that? Not here, on two boxen so far. F10 brings it up and takes it down

[gentoo-user] Firefox again - sad

2020-04-13 Thread Ian Zimmerman
After the latest Firefox update (68.7.0), when I try to open the menu with F10, sometimes Firefox crashes (about the 3rd time today now). Does anyone else see that? -- Ian

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 68.6.0-r3 local URL parsing is borked?

2020-04-03 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 2 April 2020 12:33:33 BST Michael wrote: > Something changed in the Gentoo /usr/bin/firefox script and parsing URLs > with spaces in the file name fails to escape the spaces and opens all sort > tabs while trying to resolve/search for each part of the URL string. > > Using

[gentoo-user] Firefox 68.6.0-r3 local URL parsing is borked?

2020-04-02 Thread Michael
Something changed in the Gentoo /usr/bin/firefox script and parsing URLs with spaces in the file name fails to escape the spaces and opens all sort tabs while trying to resolve/search for each part of the URL string. Using /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox seems to parse the path correctly (when

[gentoo-user] Firefox display oddity

2020-03-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, This is www-client/firefox-68.5.0. From time to time, when I switch desktops to it, FF doesn't show the tab bar. The odd thing about it is that the mouse pointer picks up displayed objects as though the tab bar were on display, so I have to aim half an inch below what I want to

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-03 Thread n952162
There's a  difference between "unpin" and "dismiss".  You can "pin" your favorites to the screen, and apparently Amazon supports Mozilla, so its icon is "pre-pinned".  And I *can* unpin it - it goes away for that session.  But it's pinned on the next invocation. But, as I say, I doubt this is a

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-03 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 10:29:39 GMT n952162 wrote: > > Well, I can change it. It's just that the next time I start firefox, I > have the old values back (and Amazon is pinned, again). Hmm ... interesting ... when I go to Top Sites on a new tab and click on the top right of a site at the Open

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-03 Thread n952162
On 2020-03-03 11:26, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 09:57:33 GMT n952162 wrote: On 2020-03-03 10:27, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 03:58:12 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 11:16:52PM +0100, n952162 wrote I have a banner that says that "your browser is being

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-03 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 09:57:33 GMT n952162 wrote: > On 2020-03-03 10:27, Michael wrote: > > On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 03:58:12 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 11:16:52PM +0100, n952162 wrote > >> > >>> I have a banner that says that "your browser is being managed by your >

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-03 Thread n952162
On 2020-03-03 10:27, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 03:58:12 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 11:16:52PM +0100, n952162 wrote I have a banner that says that "your browser is being managed by your organization". Oh yeah? I guess that would be gentoo. How can I break that

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-03 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 03:58:12 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 11:16:52PM +0100, n952162 wrote > > > I have a banner that says that "your browser is being managed by your > > organization". Oh yeah? I guess that would be gentoo. How can I break > > that relationship? > > Do

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 11:16:52PM +0100, n952162 wrote > I have a banner that says that "your browser is being managed by your > organization". Oh yeah? I guess that would be gentoo. How can I break > that relationship? Do you have Avast and/or AVG anti-virus? See

[gentoo-user] firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-02 Thread n952162
I have a banner that says that "your browser is being managed by your organization".  Oh yeah?  I guess that would be gentoo.  How can I break that relationship? In particular, when I set my default home page (to blank), after properly exiting firefox and re-starting, I'm back to the mozilla

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and script block tool/addon

2020-02-17 Thread Dale
Spackman, Chris wrote: > On 2020/02/17 at 02:31am, Dale wrote: >> Dale wrote: >> I been playing with this add-on and watched some videos on it.  While >> it does some things better, it just isn't specific enough for what I >> need.  In some cases, if I blocked scripts with it, some sites >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and script block tool/addon

2020-02-17 Thread Spackman, Chris
On 2020/02/17 at 02:31am, Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > I been playing with this add-on and watched some videos on it.  While > it does some things better, it just isn't specific enough for what I > need.  In some cases, if I blocked scripts with it, some sites > wouldn't work at all or caused

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and script block tool/addon

2020-02-17 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Corpo wrote: >> Le 24/01/2020 à 22:52, Dale a écrit : >>> Howdy, >>> >>> I use Firefox and have a issue with scripts on some sites.  I have >>> noscript installed and for the most part, it works.  That said, there is >>> times when it doesn't do what I need.  It seems, from what I

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and script block tool/addon

2020-01-25 Thread Dale
Corpo wrote: > Le 24/01/2020 à 22:52, Dale a écrit : >> Howdy, >> >> I use Firefox and have a issue with scripts on some sites.  I have >> noscript installed and for the most part, it works.  That said, there is >> times when it doesn't do what I need.  It seems, from what I can find >> anyway,

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and script block tool/addon

2020-01-25 Thread aisha
Try enabling clang and see what happens. llvm is a really good piece of software. I generally also have pulseaudio and hwaccel enabled but thats up to you. --- Aisha blog.aisha.cc On 2020-01-25 04:39, Dale wrote: Hi, I'm checking that as I type.  It may not solve all my problems but it

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and script block tool/addon

2020-01-25 Thread Corpo
Le 24/01/2020 à 22:52, Dale a écrit : > Howdy, > > I use Firefox and have a issue with scripts on some sites.  I have > noscript installed and for the most part, it works.  That said, there is > times when it doesn't do what I need.  It seems, from what I can find > anyway, that you can either

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and script block tool/addon

2020-01-24 Thread Dale
Hi, I'm checking that as I type.  It may not solve all my problems but it may certainly help.  Some scripts make one CPU core go to 100% and locks up the tab the script is running on.  Firefox, to its credit, is sane enough to allow other tabs to work tho.  At least it doesn't completely lock up

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and script block tool/addon

2020-01-24 Thread aisha
Firefox currently has some issues with addons and local storage. Do you have the use `clang` flag enabled? This compiles firefox using clang-llvm and fixes a lot of the problems. --- Aisha www.aisha.cc On 2020-01-24 22:52, Dale wrote: Howdy, I use Firefox and have a issue with scripts on some

[gentoo-user] Firefox and script block tool/addon

2020-01-24 Thread Dale
Howdy, I use Firefox and have a issue with scripts on some sites.  I have noscript installed and for the most part, it works.  That said, there is times when it doesn't do what I need.  It seems, from what I can find anyway, that you can either allow scripts or not allow scripts but can't pick

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 68

2019-09-15 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 09:08:24AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote > Is this for real or is it a mistake to be reverted soon? I do not > enjoy the thought of rebuilding firefox twice in a row. The USE flags seem to have been around for a while. I haven't updated my desktop for a few weeks (I'll

[gentoo-user] firefox 68

2019-09-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
When I saw that the last update of firefox enabled linking with some system libraries -- sqlite and jpeg included -- I went to the window right away and checked the sky for flying pigs ;-) Is this for real or is it a mistake to be reverted soon? I do not enjoy the thought of rebuilding firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox key shortcut buglet

2019-07-10 Thread Dale
Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Alt-Control-R should switch between normal rendering and Reader mode. > All the documentation available including the "tooltip" that pops up > when I hover my mouse over the Reader icon agrees. > > And yet, in the File menu, there is an item "Restart (Developer)" with > the

[gentoo-user] Firefox key shortcut buglet

2019-07-10 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Alt-Control-R should switch between normal rendering and Reader mode. All the documentation available including the "tooltip" that pops up when I hover my mouse over the Reader icon agrees. And yet, in the File menu, there is an item "Restart (Developer)" with the same shortcut. And when I in

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-12 Thread Wols Lists
On 10/01/19 12:28, Mick wrote: > What about 'rsync -H' or 'tar --hard-dereference'? Don't they cater to hard > links in the fs? rsync and cp are both quite happy with hardlinks. They just keep a table of them in memory ... a 3TB disk full of hard links will fill your memory ... Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-12 Thread Wols Lists
On 10/01/19 00:55, Dale wrote: > Just how do you do backups? If cp -a and rsync would not work > correctly, what do you use? I'm just curious now. ;-) RAID. I know it's not meant as a backup, and if anything happens to the computer it could take out both drives, but at the moment I have two

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-10 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 10 January 2019 08:28:24 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday, January 10, 2019 1:55:59 AM CET Dale wrote: > > Wols Lists wrote: > > > On 07/01/19 10:46, Dale wrote: > > >> From what I've read, that can be overcome. If you get say a SMART > > >> message that a drive is failing, > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, January 10, 2019 1:55:59 AM CET Dale wrote: > Wols Lists wrote: > > On 07/01/19 10:46, Dale wrote: > >> From what I've read, that can be overcome. If you get say a SMART > >> message that a drive is failing, > > > > Yup, I have to agree that SMART isn't always reliable, but if you >

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-09 Thread Dale
Wols Lists wrote: > On 07/01/19 10:46, Dale wrote: >> From what I've read, that can be overcome. If you get say a SMART >> message that a drive is failing, > Yup, I have to agree that SMART isn't always reliable, but if you > *monitor* it, it should give plenty of warning of the recording medium

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-09 Thread Wols Lists
On 07/01/19 10:46, Dale wrote: > From what I've read, that can be overcome. If you get say a SMART > message that a drive is failing, Yup, I have to agree that SMART isn't always reliable, but if you *monitor* it, it should give plenty of warning of the recording medium failing ... > just

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-08 Thread gevisz
пн, 7 янв. 2019 г. в 12:21, Peter Humphrey : > > On Sunday, 6 January 2019 22:13:31 GMT Dale wrote: > > > Even from my simple setup, LVM adds more benefits to managing data and > > drives than it does risk. The biggest thing, placing blame where it > > lies. Blaming LVM for a drive dying is

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-07 Thread Dale
Jack wrote: > On 2019.01.07 14:35, Dale wrote: >> >> >> But do you have any other way to get a warning?  It may not work every >> time, especially if the spindle motor just up and dies all of a sudden >> but it does detect some errors.  It is certainly better than having >> nothing at all.  So

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-07 Thread Jack
On 2019.01.07 14:35, Dale wrote: Jack wrote: > On 2019.01.07 05:46, Dale wrote: >> Peter Humphrey wrote: >> > On Sunday, 6 January 2019 22:13:31 GMT Dale wrote: >> > >> >> Even from my simple setup, LVM adds more benefits to managing data >> and >> >> drives than it does risk.  The biggest

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-07 Thread Dale
Jack wrote: > On 2019.01.07 05:46, Dale wrote: >> Peter Humphrey wrote: >> > On Sunday, 6 January 2019 22:13:31 GMT Dale wrote: >> > >> >> Even from my simple setup, LVM adds more benefits to managing data >> and >> >> drives than it does risk.  The biggest thing, placing blame where it >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-07 Thread Mick
On Monday, 7 January 2019 16:30:41 GMT Jack wrote: > On 2019.01.07 05:46, Dale wrote: > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Sunday, 6 January 2019 22:13:31 GMT Dale wrote: > > >> Even from my simple setup, LVM adds more benefits to managing data > > > > and > > > > >> drives than it does risk. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-07 Thread Jack
On 2019.01.07 05:46, Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 6 January 2019 22:13:31 GMT Dale wrote: > >> Even from my simple setup, LVM adds more benefits to managing data and >> drives than it does risk. The biggest thing, placing blame where it >> lies. Blaming LVM for a drive

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-07 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 6 January 2019 22:13:31 GMT Dale wrote: > >> Even from my simple setup, LVM adds more benefits to managing data and >> drives than it does risk. The biggest thing, placing blame where it >> lies. Blaming LVM for a drive dying is placing the blame on something

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 6 January 2019 22:13:31 GMT Dale wrote: > Even from my simple setup, LVM adds more benefits to managing data and > drives than it does risk. The biggest thing, placing blame where it > lies. Blaming LVM for a drive dying is placing the blame on something > that wasn't the root of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-06 Thread Dale
gevisz wrote: > вс, 6 янв. 2019 г. в 15:57, Peter Humphrey : >> On Sunday, 6 January 2019 11:05:10 GMT gevisz wrote: >> >>> I never used LVM as I believe that it increases the chance of [losing] >>> all the information on hard disks. >> Interesting. Would you like to explain why? > I had once a

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 6 January 2019 17:07:35 GMT gevisz wrote: > вс, 6 янв. 2019 г. в 15:57, Peter Humphrey : > > On Sunday, 6 January 2019 11:05:10 GMT gevisz wrote: > > > I never used LVM as I believe that it increases the chance of [losing] > > > all the information on hard disks. > > > > Interesting.

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-06 Thread gevisz
вс, 6 янв. 2019 г. в 15:57, Peter Humphrey : > > On Sunday, 6 January 2019 11:05:10 GMT gevisz wrote: > > > I never used LVM as I believe that it increases the chance of [losing] > > all the information on hard disks. > > Interesting. Would you like to explain why? I had once a 40GB HDD failure

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 6 January 2019 11:05:10 GMT gevisz wrote: > I never used LVM as I believe that it increases the chance of [losing] > all the information on hard disks. Interesting. Would you like to explain why? -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-06 Thread gevisz
вс, 6 янв. 2019 г. в 02:54, Dale : > > gevisz wrote: > > вт, 1 янв. 2019 г. в 06:45, Dale : > >> With the newer Firefox versions, I've noticed something weird about > >> downloading files. Usually these are videos using a download helper for > >> videos and sometimes it is a normal file download,

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-05 Thread Dale
gevisz wrote: > вт, 1 янв. 2019 г. в 06:45, Dale : >> With the newer Firefox versions, I've noticed something weird about >> downloading files. Usually these are videos using a download helper for >> videos and sometimes it is a normal file download, depends on the site. >> Either way, I get

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-05 Thread gevisz
вт, 1 янв. 2019 г. в 06:45, Dale : > > With the newer Firefox versions, I've noticed something weird about > downloading files. Usually these are videos using a download helper for > videos and sometimes it is a normal file download, depends on the site. > Either way, I get something odd at

[gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2018-12-31 Thread Dale
Howdy, With the newer Firefox versions, I've noticed something weird about downloading files.  Usually these are videos using a download helper for videos and sometimes it is a normal file download, depends on the site.  Either way, I get something odd at times.  So far, I've yet to see any rhyme

[gentoo-user] Firefox 64 binaries - LLVM6+PGO+LTO now used, faster than GCC6.4+PGO

2018-12-11 Thread Adam Carter
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=Firefox-Clang-LTO-All-Platforms "Firefox nightly builds are now built with the LLVM Clang compiler on all major platforms and the Linux build in particular is also now utilizing PGO optimizations too. Faster Firefox is coming thanks to this

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Thunderbird compile issue

2018-11-18 Thread Daniel Frey
On 11/18/18 02:47, Alarig Le Lay wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > Didi you tried to remove the temporary directory (inside /var/tmp) and > re-emerge id again? It looks like an incorrectly decompressed archive. > I just tried this, to no avail. I'm trying to rebuild the installed packages I have under

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Thunderbird compile issue

2018-11-18 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi Daniel, Didi you tried to remove the temporary directory (inside /var/tmp) and re-emerge id again? It looks like an incorrectly decompressed archive. -- Alarig

[gentoo-user] Firefox and Thunderbird compile issue

2018-11-17 Thread Daniel Frey
It looks like sometime in the last few days Firefox and Thunderbird versions were bumped. I've unfortunately got a problem (oddly enough, the same or very similar problems) with both: 1:09.75 In file included from

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes on some www-pages on a newer Gentoo system

2018-09-16 Thread Dale
gevisz wrote: > вс, 16 сент. 2018 г. в 11:09, Dale : >> >> I have nine Firefox profiles here. Any problems I have had have turned >> out to be a bad add on. Sometimes I turn off auto update and new >> Firefox doesn't like old add on. > Probably, you meant that problems with old add ons arise

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes on some www-pages on a newer Gentoo system

2018-09-16 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 16 September 2018 12:32:53 BST gevisz wrote: > вс, 16 сент. 2018 г. в 11:09, Dale : > > Mick wrote: > > > On Sunday, 16 September 2018 08:19:30 BST gevisz wrote: > > >> пт, 7 сент. 2018 г. в 19:05, Mick : > > >>> On Friday, 7 September 2018 16:32:40 BST gevisz wrote: > > >>> > > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes on some www-pages on a newer Gentoo system

2018-09-16 Thread gevisz
вс, 16 сент. 2018 г. в 11:09, Dale : > > Mick wrote: > > On Sunday, 16 September 2018 08:19:30 BST gevisz wrote: > >> пт, 7 сент. 2018 г. в 19:05, Mick : > >>> On Friday, 7 September 2018 16:32:40 BST gevisz wrote: > >>> > >>> Something else I came across causing FF crashes here, was a bug with >

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes on some www-pages on a newer Gentoo system

2018-09-16 Thread gevisz
вс, 16 сент. 2018 г. в 10:50, Mick : > > On Sunday, 16 September 2018 08:19:30 BST gevisz wrote: > > пт, 7 сент. 2018 г. в 19:05, Mick : > > > On Friday, 7 September 2018 16:32:40 BST gevisz wrote: > > > > > > Something else I came across causing FF crashes here, was a bug with > > > profile-

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes on some www-pages on a newer Gentoo system

2018-09-16 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > On Sunday, 16 September 2018 08:19:30 BST gevisz wrote: >> пт, 7 сент. 2018 г. в 19:05, Mick : >>> On Friday, 7 September 2018 16:32:40 BST gevisz wrote: >>> >>> Something else I came across causing FF crashes here, was a bug with >>> profile- sync-daemon (recent thread of mine

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes on some www-pages on a newer Gentoo system

2018-09-16 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 16 September 2018 08:19:30 BST gevisz wrote: > пт, 7 сент. 2018 г. в 19:05, Mick : > > On Friday, 7 September 2018 16:32:40 BST gevisz wrote: > > > > Something else I came across causing FF crashes here, was a bug with > > profile- sync-daemon (recent thread of mine refers). I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes on some www-pages on a newer Gentoo system

2018-09-16 Thread gevisz
пт, 7 сент. 2018 г. в 19:05, Mick : > > On Friday, 7 September 2018 16:32:40 BST gevisz wrote: > > Something else I came across causing FF crashes here, was a bug with profile- > sync-daemon (recent thread of mine refers). I don't know if you use psd, but > I wasn't aware of this psd bug when you

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes on some www-pages on a newer Gentoo system

2018-09-07 Thread Mick
On Friday, 7 September 2018 16:32:40 BST gevisz wrote: > пт, 27 июл. 2018 г. в 18:30, Mick : > > This looks like a radeon video driver problem. You could go into a loop > > of > > rebuilding xorg, mesa, dev-libs/nss, what-ever and see if things improve, > > or you could wait for/keyword later

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes on some www-pages on a newer Gentoo system

2018-09-07 Thread gevisz
пт, 27 июл. 2018 г. в 18:30, Mick : > > This looks like a radeon video driver problem. You could go into a loop of > rebuilding xorg, mesa, dev-libs/nss, what-ever and see if things improve, or > you could wait for/keyword later versions of these packages. Just now, I have finished updating my

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes on some www-pages on a newer Gentoo system

2018-08-01 Thread gevisz
2018-08-02 3:16 GMT+03:00 Adam Carter : >> > I would do something like 'emerge -1 xorg-server xorg-drivers >> > @x11-module-rebuild mesa llvm clang' then restart X and try again. >> >> Thank you for your reply. >> >> Initially, I understood the above recomendation as the suggestion to >> rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes on some www-pages on a newer Gentoo system

2018-08-01 Thread Adam Carter
> > > I would do something like 'emerge -1 xorg-server xorg-drivers > > @x11-module-rebuild mesa llvm clang' then restart X and try again. > > Thank you for your reply. > > Initially, I understood the above recomendation as the suggestion to > rebuild the packages mentioned above with different

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes on some www-pages on a newer Gentoo system

2018-08-01 Thread gevisz
2018-08-01 2:41 GMT+03:00 Adam Carter : >> > It even more strengthens my impression than I should first >> > play with reconfiguring the kernel. >> >> I have loaded the new Gentoo system using the kernel from the old one >> with no change in Firefox behaviour on https://www.privat24.ua/#login >>

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