Re: How to make current icecat less crashy

2016-11-05 Thread Hartmut Goebel 
Am 05.11.2016 um 20:01 schrieb Leo Famulari:
> Can we set this option while building?

Fedora adds default configs be simply copying [1] a file [2] to
|…/browser/defaults/preferences.|

[1]
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/firefox.git/tree/firefox.spec#n667

[2]
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/firefox.git/tree/firefox-redhat-default-prefs.js

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Re: How to make current icecat less crashy

2016-11-04 Thread ng0 
Leo Famulari  writes:

> On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 03:35:29AM +0100, David Craven wrote:
>> > Seems a lot of us have been experiencing crashes in the current Icecat.
>> 
>> How recent is this? Could it be related to this commit?

For me since we have the new icecat, not just since this commit.

>> eaf72e218e38c0c908ee30c914ab7d9c0c0389b8
>> Author: David Craven 
>> Date:   Wed Oct 26 14:27:15 2016 +0200
>> 
>> gnu: icecat: Enable gtk3 support.
>> 
>> * gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm (icecat)[inputs]: Add gtk+.
>>   [arguments]: Use --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk3.
>
> Good question. I don't use Guix's IceCat regularly but I was able to
> reproduce the crashes within 5 minutes of browsing sites that contained
> lots of videos, GIFs, images, etc.
>
>

Re: How to make current icecat less crashy

2016-11-03 Thread Arun Isaac 

> Seems to work here!  (I haven't noticed the font issue but I could just
> be missing it.)

Interesting. I have been having font issues with the Tamil (Indic
script) language with respect to bold and italic text. I thought they
were unrelated to the crashes. But, maybe, they are related.


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Re: How to make current icecat less crashy

2016-11-03 Thread Leo Famulari 
On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 03:35:29AM +0100, David Craven wrote:
> > Seems a lot of us have been experiencing crashes in the current Icecat.
> 
> How recent is this? Could it be related to this commit?
> 
> eaf72e218e38c0c908ee30c914ab7d9c0c0389b8
> Author: David Craven 
> Date:   Wed Oct 26 14:27:15 2016 +0200
> 
> gnu: icecat: Enable gtk3 support.
> 
> * gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm (icecat)[inputs]: Add gtk+.
>   [arguments]: Use --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk3.

Good question. I don't use Guix's IceCat regularly but I was able to
reproduce the crashes within 5 minutes of browsing sites that contained
lots of videos, GIFs, images, etc.