I use Sage all the time on a windows XP machine and firefox, and its usually fine (lots of jmol applets can cause memory problems but that's not specific to that setup). But I am using a remote server usually, not virtualbox. I did briefly test virtualbox on that setup and I think it worked OK for applets. I'll double-check on Monday.
-Marshall Hampton On Dec 4, 2:29 pm, Bill Page <bill.p...@newsynthesis.org> wrote: > As reported here in other threads it seems that jmol-based 3-graphics > fails in FireFox under Windows XP. I am not sure if it is all > configurations anv versions or only some but I do have one laptop > running Windows XP and the most recent version of FireFox and this > still fails with the newest version of Sage on a remote server. If > this is the same problem then I am quite sure it is not a virtual > machine problem. > > It was my understanding that someone (the original jmol developer?) > was aware of and working on this problem. No? > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:59 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > 1) Try reducing the amount of memory allocated to the Sage Virtual > > machine from 512MB to 384MB. > > > 2) Windows XP (even with only 1GB) is a very important platform for Sage, > > IMHO. > > > -- William > > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Michael Madison > > <madison.mich...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am running Sage 4.2.1 on a old 1GB ram XP computer with the > >> VirtualBox binary distribution. In the notebook if I try a 3D graph > >> Firefox shuts down and kills the Sage session. This is the same > >> problem I had with the VirtualBox Sage version 4.2. > > >> I have also created a separate Ubuntu 9.1 vm in VirtualBox, where I > >> loaded all the stuff needed to run and compile Sage 4.21. This > >> included the FireFox upgrades needed to run the 3D plots from a > >> notebook. To this vm I added a second network connection which is a > >> VirtualBox host only, just like in the binary VirtualBox Sage 4.21. I > >> compiled Sage 4.21. When I run the notebook sage using the Firefox > >> inside the Ubuntu 9.1 vm everything works great and I get 3D graphs. > >> I can also start a Sage notebook with a IP address and access it from > >> my Windows Firefox. This works fine until I run a 3D graph and then > >> the windows Firefox closes down, just like in the binary distribution > >> for VirtualBox Sage 4.21. However, if I start Firefox in Ubuntu I can > >> get into the same sheet and run the 3D graph with no problem and Sage > >> has not shut down. > > >> I suspect the problem with the 3D graph is from the VirtualBox host > >> connection. I don't know if it is just because of my XP system. -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
