#9238: J. Gutow's update to Jmol in the notebook...
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Reporter: gutow
| Owner: gutow
Type: enhancement
| Status: needs_work
Priority: major
| Milestone: sage-4.7
Component: notebook
| Keywords:
Author: Jonathan Gutow
| Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: Jason Grout, Karl-Dieter Crisman
| Merged:
Work_issues: reduce awake applets, remove pull-down menu, move 'on' checkbox
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Comment(by kcrisman):
> But now we're both seeing that logged in users can't use FF (by the way
I've seen this problem for a number of years even without any updates to
Jmol or the notebook). Can we recommend against using FF on MacOS as it
doesn't work reliably anyway?
No. Way too many users default to FF on Mac OS, IIRC.
I tested this again on your server on two different Macs. On the very old
slow one (<1 GHz, FF 3.6.14), it was achingly slow, but no problems. On
my nice new one, I actually keep being able to freeze FF 3.6.13 with a
wrong click here or there, but in general it worked; I didn't have empty
Jmols.
In fact, the only empty Jmols I saw were ones that were just waiting to be
seen; once I waited a little bit, they appeared. Until I requested a
function or something weird too early. There must be some bad memory
handling on FF 3.6 on Mac, maybe. But the thing you are describing is not
what I am seeing; certainly not trouble finding the Jmols themselves. Can
you borrow a colleague's Mac with FF to test this?
> I'm testing against 10.6.6, but otherwise the same as you. (also just
tested FF 3.6.14-same results). This gives me a little to go on, but I
fear if we choose to call this a blocker we will be waiting for a
significant notebook rewrite. I could put in a browser check that pops up
an alert for MacOS users telling them to use Safari if they have problems.
I think that's not a bad idea. As soon as a Java/Jmol is detected, if
one has FF+Mac, the script for Jmol to the browser gives a little alert.
This shouldn't be default; lots of people use Sage without ever touching
3D plotting, and it could be confusing.
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