or "Browse no browse Browse" :-) Visit http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Browse in either Browse or Firefox on 8.2.1 and your laptop will lock up and minutes later Browse will die. This is mentioned in comments on http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8278 and http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8719
If you use Firefox's Tools > Page Info > Media and scroll through the list of images, you see that the page has dozens of full-sized screenshots, all around 1,200 x 900 px, that the browser scales to tiny thumbnails according to the img tag's width and height. But that's not how Mediawiki is supposed to work. If a page on wikipedia.org calls for a thumbnail of a large image, it contains a reference to a pre-shrunk image rather than the original full-size image. E.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista#End-user_features has a thumbnail of a screenshot. So the image it references is http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f0/Windows_Explorer_Vista.png/180px-Windows_Explorer_Vista.png which is 180px wide, rather than the full-size original http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f0/Windows_Explorer_Vista.png Somehow wiki.laptop.org doesn't create thumbnails, it seems to only refer to the originals. I reopened bug 8278 and e-mail this to OLPC sysadmin. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Image_Administration#Image_thumbnailing has the configuration instructions. Could this thumbnail problem be related to the wiki.laptop.org's ImageMagick failures on the large SVGs http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Olpc-deployments-20090515.svg ? The XO should be able to deal with complex image-heavy pages on the web better. I guess it's allocating memory close to a limit, then OLPC's bad out-of-memory behavior kicks in. Why can't the O.S. kill Browse faster instead of locking up for minutes? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Memory_pressure references previous e-mail threads on this subject. Cheers, -- =S Page _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel