[ubuntu-uk] Firefox 19 and sync account ....
Hi there ... Yesterday I installed Ubuntu Utopic as a dual-boot alongside Trusty. On trying to set up sync in Firefox I found that I did not have an account! Research showed that between Firefox 18 and 19, a new Mozilla sync server has been set up but the old one is still running. When your Firefox upgrades to the current version 19, you need to unlink the sync server from your Firefox, then set up a new sync account (which can have the same e-mail and even the same password if you want). I've had to do this under my Trusty installation in order to get the sync working with the new Utopic installation. I hope this information can save some of you from the frustration I had this morning! Regards,Barry. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor
HI Using up to date 13.10 32 bit I occasionally see Firefox hogging my processor. The first I notice is that the fan on my laptop starts running at high speed. If I then look at the processor utilisation I see that FF is fully consuming one of the four cores. If I keep watching then over a minute or two it uses more and more processor till it is using all of the cores. If I then close down all the FF windows the windows disappear but the FF process remains running flat out. I have to kill the process manually. Then I can restart FF and all is well again. I *think* that when it happens it is usually (or always) just after startup of FF. Unfortunately this only happens around once a week so it is difficult to diagnose. I have the standard plugins plus Adblock Plus, Flashblock, Ghostery, Googlebar Lite, and Reminderfox. I don't want to disable them to see if that fixes it as it might run for over a week without problems anyway and I don't want to have to run without them. I have started keeping a note of which sites are open when it fails, but I think the only contenders so far are gmail and google+. Everything else on the PC appears to run fine. I can't find anything on launchpad. Any suggestions anyone? Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor
On 2 February 2014 11:55, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: HI -- I can't find anything on launchpad. Any suggestions anyone? -- Colin Which version of Firefox are you running? You might try the beta or aurora channels; I've seen a fair few issues with FF26, for example, that I haven't seen in 27a or 28a. Having said that, I've occasionally had high CPU with Gmail. I wonder if it sometimes gets stuck in an AJAX loop (or some other race condition). J -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor
On 2 February 2014 12:10, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 February 2014 11:55, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: HI -- I can't find anything on launchpad. Any suggestions anyone? -- Colin Which version of Firefox are you running? You might try the beta or aurora channels; I've seen a fair few issues with FF26, for example, that I haven't seen in 27a or 28a. I should have said, it is the standard version from the 13.10 repo. 26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.10.2 I might give the beta a go if I can work out how to install it. Having said that, I've occasionally had high CPU with Gmail. I wonder if it sometimes gets stuck in an AJAX loop (or some other race condition). Possible. Though if it were a loop in javascript then I would expect that FF should still be able to be closed down ok. Thanks Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor
On 2 February 2014 12:25, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: I should have said, it is the standard version from the 13.10 repo. 26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.10.2 I might give the beta a go if I can work out how to install it. The easiest way to test is to just download from mozilla.org, unarchive, and run: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/beta/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/aurora/ ;) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor
On 02/02/14 12:25, Colin Law wrote: On 2 February 2014 12:10, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 February 2014 11:55, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: HI -- I can't find anything on launchpad. Any suggestions anyone? -- Colin Which version of Firefox are you running? You might try the beta or aurora channels; I've seen a fair few issues with FF26, for example, that I haven't seen in 27a or 28a. I should have said, it is the standard version from the 13.10 repo. 26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.10.2 I might give the beta a go if I can work out how to install it. Having said that, I've occasionally had high CPU with Gmail. I wonder if it sometimes gets stuck in an AJAX loop (or some other race condition). Possible. Though if it were a loop in javascript then I would expect that FF should still be able to be closed down ok. Thanks Colin I'd recommend adding the Mozilla daily ppa and upgrading your installation that way. It's usually updated everyday of the year, give or take the odd week around holidays (for obvious reasons!) but i've yet to have problems with it in all the years i've been using it. It really is a great resource. to add it, do: *sudo add-apt-repository **ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa* then *sudo apt-get update _sudo apt-get remove firefox _ sudo apt-get install firefox-trunk* you'll get the very latest version everytime you update, from now on. (Currently 29 alpha) (Underlined part is optional if you want to take out mainline firefox ) Any problems and you can always put firefox back. (I think you can have them both installed at the same time, but i'd err on caution and only keep the one you're going to use incase there's any profile clashing? Shouldn't be because they're stored in separate folders, but your call, i'm sure you'll be happy with the results of this.) -- Launchpad translator and linux chemist ^_^ https://launchpad.net/~untaintableangel signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor
On 2 February 2014 13:04, Anthony Harrington untaintablean...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: I'd recommend adding the Mozilla daily ppa and upgrading your installation that way. It's usually updated everyday of the year, give or take the odd week around holidays (for obvious reasons!) but i've yet to have problems with it in all the years i've been using it. It really is a great resource. The only downside of this is the extra download size. Using the PPA will download the full 30MB .deb for each update, whereas the Mozilla local version downloads the .mar (so does a diff update). Much smaller (about 2MB per day). Of course, if Ubuntu would support delta-update debs... ;) J -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor
On 2 February 2014 12:33, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 February 2014 12:25, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: I should have said, it is the standard version from the 13.10 repo. 26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.10.2 I might give the beta a go if I can work out how to install it. The easiest way to test is to just download from mozilla.org, unarchive, and run: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/beta/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/aurora/ ;) I had a very similar problem with Ubuntu 9.04 with both Firefox and Thunderbird that seemed to be related to the Flash plugin, but also manifested itself with the OpenJDK plugin. I also ended up switching to the Aurora build but ultimately switched to Chrome. The issue seemed to be that the plugin (whichever one it was) didn't die when the client code was killed and would just start eating up cycles. Restarting Firefox (or Thunderbird) would solve the problem but I had to block Flash to prevent it from happening. I suspect that it may be related to the internal architecture on specific processors which is why it's not a common issue. I certainly haven't had it for some time. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood TBA are particularly glib -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor
On 2 February 2014 13:13, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 February 2014 12:33, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 February 2014 12:25, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: I should have said, it is the standard version from the 13.10 repo. 26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.10.2 I might give the beta a go if I can work out how to install it. The easiest way to test is to just download from mozilla.org, unarchive, and run: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/beta/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/aurora/ ;) I had a very similar problem with Ubuntu 9.04 with both Firefox and Thunderbird that seemed to be related to the Flash plugin, but also manifested itself with the OpenJDK plugin. I also ended up switching to the Aurora build but ultimately switched to Chrome. The issue seemed to be that the plugin (whichever one it was) didn't die when the client code was killed and would just start eating up cycles. Restarting Firefox (or Thunderbird) would solve the problem but I had to block Flash to prevent it from happening. I suspect that it may be related to the internal architecture on specific processors which is why it's not a common issue. I certainly haven't had it for some time. I don't think it is flash related. I have flash blocked with Flashblock and I am fairly certain I have seen it fail in situations where I have not manually started flash running. I don't have a java plugin at all. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor
On 2 February 2014 13:04, Anthony Harrington untaintablean...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: On 02/02/14 12:25, Colin Law wrote: On 2 February 2014 12:10, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 February 2014 11:55, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: HI -- I can't find anything on launchpad. Any suggestions anyone? -- Colin Which version of Firefox are you running? You might try the beta or aurora channels; I've seen a fair few issues with FF26, for example, that I haven't seen in 27a or 28a. I should have said, it is the standard version from the 13.10 repo. 26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.10.2 I might give the beta a go if I can work out how to install it. Having said that, I've occasionally had high CPU with Gmail. I wonder if it sometimes gets stuck in an AJAX loop (or some other race condition). Possible. Though if it were a loop in javascript then I would expect that FF should still be able to be closed down ok. Thanks Colin I'd recommend adding the Mozilla daily ppa and upgrading your installation that way. It's usually updated everyday of the year, give or take the odd week around holidays (for obvious reasons!) but i've yet to have problems with it in all the years i've been using it. It really is a great resource. to add it, do: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa then sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get remove firefox sudo apt-get install firefox-trunk I will give that a go. Thanks Anthony. Colin you'll get the very latest version everytime you update, from now on. (Currently 29 alpha) (Underlined part is optional if you want to take out mainline firefox ) Any problems and you can always put firefox back. (I think you can have them both installed at the same time, but i'd err on caution and only keep the one you're going to use incase there's any profile clashing? Shouldn't be because they're stored in separate folders, but your call, i'm sure you'll be happy with the results of this.) -- Launchpad translator and linux chemist ^_^ https://launchpad.net/~untaintableangel -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor
On 2 February 2014 13:55, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 February 2014 13:04, Anthony Harrington untaintablean...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: On 02/02/14 12:25, Colin Law wrote: On 2 February 2014 12:10, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 February 2014 11:55, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: HI -- I can't find anything on launchpad. Any suggestions anyone? -- Colin Which version of Firefox are you running? You might try the beta or aurora channels; I've seen a fair few issues with FF26, for example, that I haven't seen in 27a or 28a. I should have said, it is the standard version from the 13.10 repo. 26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.10.2 I might give the beta a go if I can work out how to install it. Having said that, I've occasionally had high CPU with Gmail. I wonder if it sometimes gets stuck in an AJAX loop (or some other race condition). Possible. Though if it were a loop in javascript then I would expect that FF should still be able to be closed down ok. Thanks Colin I'd recommend adding the Mozilla daily ppa and upgrading your installation that way. It's usually updated everyday of the year, give or take the odd week around holidays (for obvious reasons!) but i've yet to have problems with it in all the years i've been using it. It really is a great resource. to add it, do: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa then sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get remove firefox sudo apt-get install firefox-trunk I will give that a go. Thanks Anthony. Well that went ok, it even copied across my profile. Just have to wait now to see if the problem shows itself again. Colin you'll get the very latest version everytime you update, from now on. (Currently 29 alpha) (Underlined part is optional if you want to take out mainline firefox ) Any problems and you can always put firefox back. (I think you can have them both installed at the same time, but i'd err on caution and only keep the one you're going to use incase there's any profile clashing? Shouldn't be because they're stored in separate folders, but your call, i'm sure you'll be happy with the results of this.) -- Launchpad translator and linux chemist ^_^ https://launchpad.net/~untaintableangel -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor
On 02/02/14 15:41, Colin Law wrote: On 2 February 2014 13:55, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 February 2014 13:04, Anthony Harrington untaintablean...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: On 02/02/14 12:25, Colin Law wrote: On 2 February 2014 12:10, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 February 2014 11:55, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: HI -- I can't find anything on launchpad. Any suggestions anyone? -- Colin Which version of Firefox are you running? You might try the beta or aurora channels; I've seen a fair few issues with FF26, for example, that I haven't seen in 27a or 28a. I should have said, it is the standard version from the 13.10 repo. 26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.10.2 I might give the beta a go if I can work out how to install it. Having said that, I've occasionally had high CPU with Gmail. I wonder if it sometimes gets stuck in an AJAX loop (or some other race condition). Possible. Though if it were a loop in javascript then I would expect that FF should still be able to be closed down ok. Thanks Colin I'd recommend adding the Mozilla daily ppa and upgrading your installation that way. It's usually updated everyday of the year, give or take the odd week around holidays (for obvious reasons!) but i've yet to have problems with it in all the years i've been using it. It really is a great resource. to add it, do: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa then sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get remove firefox sudo apt-get install firefox-trunk I will give that a go. Thanks Anthony. Well that went ok, it even copied across my profile. Just have to wait now to see if the problem shows itself again. Colin you'll get the very latest version everytime you update, from now on. (Currently 29 alpha) (Underlined part is optional if you want to take out mainline firefox ) Any problems and you can always put firefox back. (I think you can have them both installed at the same time, but i'd err on caution and only keep the one you're going to use incase there's any profile clashing? Shouldn't be because they're stored in separate folders, but your call, i'm sure you'll be happy with the results of this.) -- Launchpad translator and linux chemist ^_^ https://launchpad.net/~untaintableangel -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Actually, since there could be others reading this that want some tips, there are further steps you can do to minimise firefox usage. There are memory tweaks and other stuff you can fiddle with in about:config that might reduce your cpu usage e.g. if you cache more or in situations, allow more to be stored in memory before sending for more data. But a good quick area to focus on is flash. On my setup, i've got the greasemonkey addon along with a script for it called 'viewtube' Viewtube is very effective at forcing youtube/dailymotion etc flash videos to work in whatever player you choose in the list on the video and i set mine to highest definition available in html5. There's a very small learning curve for what it does - like it gives you a 'get' option to download the video, and you can set it to 'html5' or 'vlc' or 'xine' (xine is good if nothing else will work but 99% of the time html5 works great and no adverts and loads very quickly but more importantly, without flash, the cpu usage stays much lower.) The only thing i ever actually need the flash plugin for now is if i want to watch a video posted on facebook and i can't copy the youtube link and open it in a new tab in html5. While flash does once in a blue moon end up crashing the browser because of a facebook video, it never happens unexpectedly or often at all, so i went to about:config and made *dom.ipc.plugins.enabled* false. (Search for 'dom.ipc' in about:config and set the top three booleans to false.) This controls the 'plugin container' a separate process running with firefox that contains plugins (as the name implies!) so that if they crash, they don't take firefox with it. Without the process however, the cpu usage does drop a fair bit. Much less than in previous versions/previous years, but i live perfectly happily without it, maybe you might be too? Might be worth testing for yourself because it certainly made my life easier. It doesn't make sense to have it if you can circumvent your flash usage because its purely a safety net. In response to using the firefox tarballs from their site and running like that, i have done this before and you're right it is VERY simple and contained and the update packages are smaller, but i feel like it's much less integrated with the desktop unless you physically install it from a ppa or build it from source. (Although it /is /easy to make a launcher for it on the old gnome-shell desktop via alacarte, never done this for unity!) Best of luck! -- Launchpad translator and linux chemist ^_^
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox 16 on 12.04
On Thursday 11 Oct 2012 15:06:25 Jim Price wrote: I got the updated to Firefox 16.0 yesterday. Today it's all over the news that Firefox 16 has been pulled pending a security fix. I can't seem to find any word on what the status is for Ubuntu, and 16 is still the current version in the updates repository. Does anyone know what is happening about this? Firefox 16.0.1 is now in the repositories. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Firefox 16 on 12.04
I got the updated to Firefox 16.0 yesterday. Today it's all over the news that Firefox 16 has been pulled pending a security fix. I can't seem to find any word on what the status is for Ubuntu, and 16 is still the current version in the updates repository. Does anyone know what is happening about this? JimP -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox 16 on 12.04
Dnia 11-10-2012 o godz. 16:06 Jim Price napisał(a): I got the updated to Firefox 16.0 yesterday. Today it's all over the news that Firefox 16 has been pulled pending a security fix. I can't seem to find any word on what the status is for Ubuntu, and 16 is still the current version in the updates repository. Does anyone know what is happening about this? JimP -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2012/10/09/load-handler-failures-firefox-16/ An add-on compatibility problem was recently discovered in Firefox 16. It is present in Firefox 16 and above, and we#8217;re currently investigating it. The problem is that the window load event handler that many add-ons depend on isn#8217;t fired under some circumstances. So far it appears that this only happens when a popup window is opened, and only in cases where the domain in the new window is different from the one that opened the window. Since most add-on scripts rely on the load handler being called, many of them will not work in the newly opened popup window. There#8217;s more information about this in bug 799348. At the moment we consider the impact of this bug to be fairly minor, so it won#8217;t be fixed until Firefox 17 unless there are sufficient reasons that merit the creation of a 16.0.1 update. If your add-on is affected by it, please let us know how in the comments. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Firefox 13 rendering issues
Earlier and yesterday I noticed that having 2 tabs open in firefox 13 causes content from one to appear in the other tab e.g an embedded video in tab 1, switch to DIFFERENT webpage on tab 2 and i can still see the video as sort of background area getting in the way. Also recently noticed other rendering issues with webpages recently too. Today I upgraded to firefox 14 and this seems to have solved the issue, just thought i would share as others may be experiencing something similar and this seems to be a fix. I am running ubuntu 11.10 with the lubuntu desktop. I say this as I did have 11.10 ubuntu but then installed the lubuntu desktop rather than installing lubuntu from scratch. hope this helps Paul -- -- http://drupal.zleap.net skype : psutton111 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Firefox vs the ubuntu page
Hello all, Thanks for the previous answer on upgrading. I just had a bit of an embarrassing moment with a work colleague. I have firefox 4.0.1 without flash on my XP machine. I went to the http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/whats-new page to show him cool things with new ubuntu and I got an error saying to get HTML5 or adobe flash. When I click on the HTML5 it sends me to safari. Could you confirm or unconfirm this? Might be settings on my firefox? I looked it up if it was a but and this poped up: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-website/+bug/772778 so I posted my stuff there. BTW: you tube html 5 works for me. (except the ones with ads it seems) -- Andrés Muñiz-Piniella -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] FireFox and SQLite
Morning All I'm in the process of installing GNUCash on both my Windows and Ubuntu boxes, both of which currently have FF as the browser. I seem to remember that FF uses SQLite as it's own back end, but have a nagging memory that Mozilla have optimised it for FF's use and this makes it unusable for any other application. Can anyone confirm this please as I want to use SQLite as the backend for GNUCash too and want to know if I need to install SQLite, or use the FF one? Regards Ian -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] FireFox and SQLite
On 27 November 2010 15:25, Ian Pascoe softy.lofty@btinternet.com wrote: Morning All I'm in the process of installing GNUCash on both my Windows and Ubuntu boxes, both of which currently have FF as the browser. I seem to remember that FF uses SQLite as it's own back end, but have a nagging memory that Mozilla have optimised it for FF's use and this makes it unusable for any other application. Can anyone confirm this please as I want to use SQLite as the backend for GNUCash too and want to know if I need to install SQLite, or use the FF one? It looks like firefox has a version of libsqlite in the /usr/lib/firefox directory. It may be possible to use that version of sqlite with Gnucash, but I don't think I would risk it. The modifications made for Firefox may be slight, but could have unforeseen consequences for Gnucash. I would simply install the default sqlite from the standard locations, and use that for Gnucacsh. -- Philip Stubbs -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox not getting focus
On 25 July 2010 10:07, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Mark Fraser wrote: snip I haven't been able to get Firefox to gain focus like that since doing a clean install of Kubuntu 10.04. I don't think the issue is caused by the OS, as I see it on machines running Hardy, Karmic and Lucid (and with various versions of Liferea). It has only recently started, and I suspect Firefox Ver 3.6.7. Now, I know one or two folk here use Firefox. :-) Some also use Liferea; and I guess at least a few must have Liferea set to open items in the browser? So has anyone else noticed that Firefox no longer gets focus after you click the space bar, say, to open a Liferea item? (I can't believe that Mark and me are the only people plagued by this change.) And if you've also found a fix to restore the previous behaviour of FF, it would be really good to hear it. :-) I'm also experiencing the same behaviour, but I actually prefer it. I don't really like apps stealing focus (even if I did click on a link) -- Matt Wheeler m...@funkyhat.org -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox not getting focus
Matt Wheeler wrote: I'm also experiencing the same behaviour, but I actually prefer it. I don't really like apps stealing focus (even if I did click on a link) Yes, from bug reports and other comments a lot of folk seem to share your preference, and that may be why the behaviour was changed. I am gradually getting used to a process of selecting all the liferea items I want to read so that they open as new tabs in FF in the background, and then going to FF to do the reading. It would, however, be nice to have the option of choosing which behaviour one preferred. Sadly, despite much searching, I can't find a way of doing this. There are some very knowledgeable folk on this list, but no one here has suggested how to control the focussing behaviour, so I guess I'll just have to get used to a different 'workflow' for reading liferea items. Or learn how to program, to change FF myself. (I don't think so!) ;-) mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox not getting focus
On Sunday 25 Jul 2010 10:07:37 mac wrote: Mark Fraser wrote: snip I haven't been able to get Firefox to gain focus like that since doing a clean install of Kubuntu 10.04. I don't think the issue is caused by the OS, as I see it on machines running Hardy, Karmic and Lucid (and with various versions of Liferea). It has only recently started, and I suspect Firefox Ver 3.6.7. Now, I know one or two folk here use Firefox. :-) Some also use Liferea; and I guess at least a few must have Liferea set to open items in the browser? So has anyone else noticed that Firefox no longer gets focus after you click the space bar, say, to open a Liferea item? (I can't believe that Mark and me are the only people plagued by this change.) And if you've also found a fix to restore the previous behaviour of FF, it would be really good to hear it. :-) I've found out how to fix it in Kubuntu, click on the Firefox logo at the top left of the window and select configure window behaviour, click on Focus and change Focus stealing prevention level to none. -- Registered Linux User #466407 http://counter.li.org -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox not getting focus
Mark Fraser wrote: I've found out how to fix it in Kubuntu, click on the Firefox logo at the top left of the window and select configure window behaviour, click on Focus and change Focus stealing prevention level to none. Bingo! Thanks for the hint. You don't do it so easily in Gnome/Compiz, but here's how for anyone who's interested: Go to System Preferences Advanced Desktop Effects Setting (or CompizConfig Settings Manager) General Options Focus Raise Behaviour and set Focus Prevention Level to 'Off' Cheers, Mark :-) mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox not getting focus
Mark Fraser wrote: snip I haven't been able to get Firefox to gain focus like that since doing a clean install of Kubuntu 10.04. I don't think the issue is caused by the OS, as I see it on machines running Hardy, Karmic and Lucid (and with various versions of Liferea). It has only recently started, and I suspect Firefox Ver 3.6.7. Now, I know one or two folk here use Firefox. :-) Some also use Liferea; and I guess at least a few must have Liferea set to open items in the browser? So has anyone else noticed that Firefox no longer gets focus after you click the space bar, say, to open a Liferea item? (I can't believe that Mark and me are the only people plagued by this change.) And if you've also found a fix to restore the previous behaviour of FF, it would be really good to hear it. :-) mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Firefox not getting focus
I notice that recently that when I click a URL in an e-mail, or select an item in Liferea (ver 1.6.0 in Karmic; 1.6.2 in Hardy), a new tab opens in Firefox (with Firefox already running), but Firefox does not get focus as it once did. Instead, I have to bring Firefox to the front manually to read the item. This behaviour is new (after the recent update to FF 3.6.7?). In about:config I have browser.tabs.loadInBackground = false Searches suggest that the default behaviour I used to find useful - switch immediately to FF when I click a URL or Liferea item - has been viewed by some as a bug. Can anyone suggest how I might restore the former behaviour? mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox not getting focus
On Saturday 24 Jul 2010 11:06:51 mac wrote: I notice that recently that when I click a URL in an e-mail, or select an item in Liferea (ver 1.6.0 in Karmic; 1.6.2 in Hardy), a new tab opens in Firefox (with Firefox already running), but Firefox does not get focus as it once did. Instead, I have to bring Firefox to the front manually to read the item. This behaviour is new (after the recent update to FF 3.6.7?). In about:config I have browser.tabs.loadInBackground = false Searches suggest that the default behaviour I used to find useful - switch immediately to FF when I click a URL or Liferea item - has been viewed by some as a bug. Can anyone suggest how I might restore the former behaviour? I haven't been able to get Firefox to gain focus like that since doing a clean install of Kubuntu 10.04. -- Registered Linux User #466407 http://counter.li.org -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox and Flash
On Friday 11 Jun 2010 09:38:54 Byte Soup wrote: Hi Mark On 9 June 2010 20:13, Mark Fraser ubu...@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk wrote: Just tried watching Jono's stream on my wife's computer using Firefox. For some reason although the video works fine, I get an 'install flash' icon where the chat box is supposed to be. On my computer both are working fine. Any ideas on what could be causing this? What version of flash do you have when you type about:plugins into your browser url? Shockwave Flash 10.1 r53 Strangely, although the www.ustream.tv/channel/at-home-with-jono-bacon page wouldn't work, if I clicked on the 'beta' button that page loaded fine. -- Registered Linux User #466407 http://counter.li.org -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox and Flash
Hi Mark On 9 June 2010 20:13, Mark Fraser ubu...@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk wrote: Just tried watching Jono's stream on my wife's computer using Firefox. For some reason although the video works fine, I get an 'install flash' icon where the chat box is supposed to be. On my computer both are working fine. Any ideas on what could be causing this? What version of flash do you have when you type about:plugins into your browser url? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox and Flash
On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 09:38 +0100, Byte Soup wrote: Hi Mark On 9 June 2010 20:13, Mark Fraser ubu...@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk wrote: Just tried watching Jono's stream on my wife's computer using Firefox. For some reason although the video works fine, I get an 'install flash' icon where the chat box is supposed to be. On my computer both are working fine. Any ideas on what could be causing this? What version of flash do you have when you type about:plugins into your browser url? I don't know if this is any help, but I had to go to ~/.mozilla/plugins and delete what was there before the new version of Flash I installed would work. Tony signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox and Flash
Just tried watching Jono's stream on my wife's computer using Firefox. For some reason although the video works fine, I get an 'install flash' icon where the chat box is supposed to be. A bit off topic I know, but if you haven't already, you might want to take a look at Google Chrome. It has Flash pre-installed and runs really nicely under Ubuntu. Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Firefox and Flash
Just tried watching Jono's stream on my wife's computer using Firefox. For some reason although the video works fine, I get an 'install flash' icon where the chat box is supposed to be. On my computer both are working fine. Any ideas on what could be causing this? -- Registered Linux User #466407 http://counter.li.org -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Firefox loading at log-on
Since the last round of updates towards the middle/end of last week, whenever I log on, Firefox loads itself and opens the UbuntuOne login page. OK, I usually *do* want to run Firefox fairly soon after switching on, but it's still an irritation! Anyone else had this? I have Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100401 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.9 GTB6 Dianne -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox loading at log-on
On 18 April 2010 14:41, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Since the last round of updates towards the middle/end of last week, whenever I log on, Firefox loads itself and opens the UbuntuOne login page. OK, I usually *do* want to run Firefox fairly soon after switching on, but it's still an irritation! Anyone else had this? I have Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100401 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.9 GTB6 Have a look in ~/.config/gnome-session/saved-session. If there is anything there then delete it, or move it away if you prefer. Colin Dianne -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox loading at log-on
It may be because ubuntu one has not been logged in, so it wants you to login. regards, Hugh W -Original Message- From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Colin Law Sent: 18 April 2010 17:27 To: UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox loading at log-on On 18 April 2010 14:41, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Since the last round of updates towards the middle/end of last week, whenever I log on, Firefox loads itself and opens the UbuntuOne login page. OK, I usually *do* want to run Firefox fairly soon after switching on, but it's still an irritation! Anyone else had this? I have Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100401 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.9 GTB6 Have a look in ~/.config/gnome-session/saved-session. If there is anything there then delete it, or move it away if you prefer. Colin Dianne -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox wont open up since yesterdays nightly update
From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of John Matthews Sent: 15 April 2010 13:50 To: UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox wont open up since yesterdays nightly update Ok, I reinstalled the restricted packages, still the same. As far as proxy settings, not sure what you mean there? I dont have a firewall in Ubuntu, the nearest to a proxy setting I can think of could be my router, but would that have a problem with an ubuntu update? The lack of firewall in Ubuntu does kind of worry me a bit. Tried to install one, but it got too complicated. - Just to pick up on this bit, I feel like giving an explanation on firewalls and network-level protection in Ubuntu :) The networking part of Ubuntu (contained in the kernel) will respond to things called ICMP pings. Pings are a simple way to tell if a computer is there or not. Generally firewalls will stop the computer responding to these pings, depending on the configuration of the firewall. Also, the networking part of the kernel will control how programs 'listen' on ports. A program or service will bind to a port where it can be contacted - these are generally server type programs such as the Apache web server, OpenSSH secure console etc. By default Ubuntu comes with none of these enabled so if a remote user / attacker tried to access any of these on your machine they would get a connection refused from the kernel as there is nothing listening on a specific port. Firewalls seek to increase the security of this behaviour by instead of responding with a connection refused, they silently drop the request and never respond, making it so that the remote user / attacker never knows if there is a computer there or not. Obviously this is safer, but it isn't always desired behaviour. Finally something to note is that if you have any type of ADSL / broadband router at home it will almost certainly have a NAT firewall built in. The firewall can be an explicit firewall or the firewall can be implied due to that fact that a remote attacker can't see anything behind your router. There's lots more to all of this and this is a very simplified view of things but essentially, with Ubuntu, you're pretty safe without a firewall. If you want to go ultra-safe then it can help. Hope this makes sense. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox wont open up since yesterdays nightly update
Sounds very similar to noscript which I think will do the same thing except that it stops lot of other site scripting. Also are you going via any proxy servers? I had a similar problem a while ago and someone on the #ubuntu-uk IRC channel told me its likely a proxy, following their advice i took any proxy out of my gnome proxy settings and firefox and connected directly to BBC iplayer site and i could view the content just fine. Thanks Mark On 14 April 2010 14:13, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.comwrote: On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 13:08 +0100, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4pre) Gecko/20100410 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Namoroka/3.6.4pre GTB6. That is what I am using, and FF worked ok opened, fine. Then after that Firefox window will now open, but it fails to completely download the page. I use firefox to read the BBC news on its website, now I cannot even open the pages. It just stops half way though, and greys out, and I have to force close the window. Can somebody help please? I have discovered its any page that has a video playback on it. It loads part way, then the whole page sort of goes grey, and hangs. I have to force quit then. So since the update, its either flash, or something like that isnt working. If you want I can take a video, if it will work to show you. John I have had the same problem in the past, and found that stopping and restarting FlashBlock cleared it. Rowan Hi, um not sure what flashblock is, is that an addon? I only have a few addons, because I found too many took up to much cpu usage. I am pretty certain its not an addon. John Yeah, sorry. FlashBlock is an add-on I have personally never been without; I regard it as essential. In fact, if you have never tried it, maybe you should. It stops all flash content from loading automatically when you open a page. It is possible, I think, that your browser is trying to load some flash content that is causing it to hang, so FlashBlock would in fact solve your problem. When you have FlashBlock, you see the embedded video window and see a big start button instead of a sample frame from the video. If you want to load the video you press it; if not, it stays unloaded, thereby saving the browser time and trouble, and sparing you many animated advertisements. It also contains an easy-to-use allow flash content on this page button, so that you can tell it to load the flash content normally on pages where you visit regularly and know the flash content is safe and desirable. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox wont open up since yesterdays nightly update
I dont uswe noscript either, not sure what it is. Its only since a nightly update a couple of days ago, and it seems to be a bit more widespread than that now, as I can read some pages in Chrome or Chromium,, and what is most frustrating I cannot access my admin section of wordpress for some reason. I am pretty certain its flash problem. I was able to watch it, even it did jump around the page. Now nothing. Cant use FF at for any pages with flash on them now. John. John On 15/04/10 09:34, Markie wrote: Sounds very similar to noscript which I think will do the same thing except that it stops lot of other site scripting. Also are you going via any proxy servers? I had a similar problem a while ago and someone on the #ubuntu-uk IRC channel told me its likely a proxy, following their advice i took any proxy out of my gnome proxy settings and firefox and connected directly to BBC iplayer site and i could view the content just fine. Thanks -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox wont open up since yesterdays nightly update
I would try disabling your addon; tools -- addons -- extensions -- select the extension and click disable or unintsall Also you could re-install the ubuntu-restricted-extras package in synaptic assuming you have this installed already? Mark On 15 April 2010 10:13, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: I dont uswe noscript either, not sure what it is. Its only since a nightly update a couple of days ago, and it seems to be a bit more widespread than that now, as I can read some pages in Chrome or Chromium,, and what is most frustrating I cannot access my admin section of wordpress for some reason. I am pretty certain its flash problem. I was able to watch it, even it did jump around the page. Now nothing. Cant use FF at for any pages with flash on them now. John. John On 15/04/10 09:34, Markie wrote: Sounds very similar to noscript which I think will do the same thing except that it stops lot of other site scripting. Also are you going via any proxy servers? I had a similar problem a while ago and someone on the #ubuntu-uk IRC channel told me its likely a proxy, following their advice i took any proxy out of my gnome proxy settings and firefox and connected directly to BBC iplayer site and i could view the content just fine. Thanks -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox wont open up since yesterdays nightly update
On 15/04/10 11:21, Markie wrote: I would try disabling your addon; tools -- addons -- extensions -- select the extension and click disable or unintsall Also you could re-install the ubuntu-restricted-extras package in synaptic assuming you have this installed already? Mark Hi, weel, I have two pictures, one with all my addons, which by the way I only have about 10 of them, and the other with the addons disabled. Exactly the same things happens, it hangs. Its the flash/java thing again I am pretty certain it is. As its happening on Google as well. How do I post the pictures to show you what happens. Jo -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox wont open up since yesterdays nightly update
I hope this will work, I know you cant upload pictures so I have uploaded them to a picture host and will add the urls. First picture shows FF with all addons enabled second without, and both hang half way though downloading page, and the vid doesnt appear. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v420/jmatt21/Misc/?action=viewcurrent=IMG_1095.jpg http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v420/jmatt21/Misc/?action=viewcurrent=IMG_1096.jpg Hope that helps. Some more information, I play games on Facebook, using both Chrome and Chromium, now I cant. This was after a nightly update two days ago. John. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox wont open up since yesterdays nightly update
OK, the pics can be viewed, did you check for proxy settings and also did you try re-installing the restricted packages? Mark On 15 April 2010 12:40, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: I hope this will work, I know you cant upload pictures so I have uploaded them to a picture host and will add the urls. First picture shows FF with all addons enabled second without, and both hang half way though downloading page, and the vid doesnt appear. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v420/jmatt21/Misc/?action=viewcurrent=IMG_1095.jpg http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v420/jmatt21/Misc/?action=viewcurrent=IMG_1096.jpg Hope that helps. Some more information, I play games on Facebook, using both Chrome and Chromium, now I cant. This was after a nightly update two days ago. John. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox wont open up since yesterdays nightly update
Ok, I reinstalled the restricted packages, still the same. As far as proxy settings, not sure what you mean there? I dont have a firewall in Ubuntu, the nearest to a proxy setting I can think of could be my router, but would that have a problem with an ubuntu update? The lack of firewall in Ubuntu does kind of worry me a bit. Tried to install one, but it got too complicated. John. On 15/04/10 13:01, Markie wrote: OK, the pics can be viewed, did you check for proxy settings and also did you try re-installing the restricted packages? Mark On 15 April 2010 12:40, John Matthews jake...@sky.com mailto:jake...@sky.com wrote: I hope this will work, I know you cant upload pictures so I have uploaded them to a picture host and will add the urls. First picture shows FF with all addons enabled second without, and both hang half way though downloading page, and the vid doesnt appear. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v420/jmatt21/Misc/?action=viewcurrent=IMG_1095.jpg http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v420/jmatt21/Misc/?action=viewcurrent=IMG_1095.jpg http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v420/jmatt21/Misc/?action=viewcurrent=IMG_1096.jpg http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v420/jmatt21/Misc/?action=viewcurrent=IMG_1096.jpg Hope that helps. Some more information, I play games on Facebook, using both Chrome and Chromium, now I cant. This was after a nightly update two days ago. John. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox wont open up since yesterdays nightly update
If you didnt setup a proxy then chances are your connected direct. For the system proxy go to the main menu (ALT+F1) and then System -- preferences -- Network proxy. I use it quite a lot as I run ubuntu on my work machine and when im vpn-ed in i need to set the proxy to allow things like the package updater to get internet access. When applications use system proxy settings this is where it refers to. For firefox go to Edit menu -- preferences -- advanced -- network and click the Settings button. Again, chances are this isnt an issue. I would recommend you post up a question on the ubuntu forums for this if you havent already; http://ubuntuforums.org/index.php I have a feeling its likely a broken package on your system that didnt install correctly. As regarding the firewall I wouldnt worry too much about that. There is a firewall included by default in Ubuntu ufw is the command ufw --help will give you a list of commands. By default no ports are open on ubuntu as installed. Sorry I cant be of any more assistance really, but im sure you'll get to the bottom of it on the forums. Dont give up! Mark On 15 April 2010 13:49, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: Ok, I reinstalled the restricted packages, still the same. As far as proxy settings, not sure what you mean there? I dont have a firewall in Ubuntu, the nearest to a proxy setting I can think of could be my router, but would that have a problem with an ubuntu update? The lack of firewall in Ubuntu does kind of worry me a bit. Tried to install one, but it got too complicated. John. On 15/04/10 13:01, Markie wrote: OK, the pics can be viewed, did you check for proxy settings and also did you try re-installing the restricted packages? Mark On 15 April 2010 12:40, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: I hope this will work, I know you cant upload pictures so I have uploaded them to a picture host and will add the urls. First picture shows FF with all addons enabled second without, and both hang half way though downloading page, and the vid doesnt appear. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v420/jmatt21/Misc/?action=viewcurrent=IMG_1095.jpg http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v420/jmatt21/Misc/?action=viewcurrent=IMG_1096.jpg Hope that helps. Some more information, I play games on Facebook, using both Chrome and Chromium, now I cant. This was after a nightly update two days ago. John. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox wont open up since yesterdays nightly update
On 13/04/10 11:47, Neil Greenwood wrote: On 13 April 2010 10:52, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4pre) Gecko/20100410 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Namoroka/3.6.4pre GTB6 That is what I am using, and FF worked ok opened, fine. Then after that Firefox window will now open, but it fails to completely download the page. I use firefox to read the BBC news on its website, now I cannot even open the pages. It just stops half way though, and greys out, and I have to force close the window. Can somebody help please? Sounds a bit like a problem with an extension. Try creating a new profile and using that. IIRC, you have to shut down all firefox instances (killall firefox) and then start the profile manager (firefox -P). Both of those commands can either be typed in a terminal, or using Alt-F2 to display the Run Application prompt. If it stops it crashing, you need to disable all your extensions and find out which one is causing the crashes (which can take a while, depending on how many you have installed). Hope this helps. Good luck! Neil. Hi Neil, I have discovered its any page that has a video playback on it. It loads part way, then the whole page sort of goes grey, and hangs. I have to force quit then. So since the update, its either flash, or something like that isnt working. If you want I can take a video, if it will work to show you. John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox wont open up since yesterdays nightly update
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 12:00 +0100, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4pre) Gecko/20100410 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Namoroka/3.6.4pre GTB6. That is what I am using, and FF worked ok opened, fine. Then after that Firefox window will now open, but it fails to completely download the page. I use firefox to read the BBC news on its website, now I cannot even open the pages. It just stops half way though, and greys out, and I have to force close the window. Can somebody help please? I have discovered its any page that has a video playback on it. It loads part way, then the whole page sort of goes grey, and hangs. I have to force quit then. So since the update, its either flash, or something like that isnt working. If you want I can take a video, if it will work to show you. John I have had the same problem in the past, and found that stopping and restarting FlashBlock cleared it. Rowan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox wont open up since yesterdays nightly update
On 14/04/10 12:34, John Matthews wrote: Hi, um not sure what flashblock is, is that an addon? I only have a few addons, because I found too many took up to much cpu usage. I am pretty certain its not an addon. John Try starting Firefox in Safe Mode. In Ubuntu, press Alt and F2 and in the run box enter firefox -safe-mode or open a terminal and enter firefox -safe-mode at the prompt. Opening Firefox in safe mode will disable all themes and addons, this will hopefully rule out any addons. BTW, Flashblock is (AFAIK) an addon which blocks Flash content (adverts, animations, videos etc). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox wont open up since yesterdays nightly update
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 13:08 +0100, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4pre) Gecko/20100410 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Namoroka/3.6.4pre GTB6. That is what I am using, and FF worked ok opened, fine. Then after that Firefox window will now open, but it fails to completely download the page. I use firefox to read the BBC news on its website, now I cannot even open the pages. It just stops half way though, and greys out, and I have to force close the window. Can somebody help please? I have discovered its any page that has a video playback on it. It loads part way, then the whole page sort of goes grey, and hangs. I have to force quit then. So since the update, its either flash, or something like that isnt working. If you want I can take a video, if it will work to show you. John I have had the same problem in the past, and found that stopping and restarting FlashBlock cleared it. Rowan Hi, um not sure what flashblock is, is that an addon? I only have a few addons, because I found too many took up to much cpu usage. I am pretty certain its not an addon. John Yeah, sorry. FlashBlock is an add-on I have personally never been without; I regard it as essential. In fact, if you have never tried it, maybe you should. It stops all flash content from loading automatically when you open a page. It is possible, I think, that your browser is trying to load some flash content that is causing it to hang, so FlashBlock would in fact solve your problem. When you have FlashBlock, you see the embedded video window and see a big start button instead of a sample frame from the video. If you want to load the video you press it; if not, it stays unloaded, thereby saving the browser time and trouble, and sparing you many animated advertisements. It also contains an easy-to-use allow flash content on this page button, so that you can tell it to load the flash content normally on pages where you visit regularly and know the flash content is safe and desirable. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Firefox wont open up since yesterdays nightly update
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4pre) Gecko/20100410 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Namoroka/3.6.4pre GTB6 That is what I am using, and FF worked ok opened, fine. Then after that Firefox window will now open, but it fails to completely download the page. I use firefox to read the BBC news on its website, now I cannot even open the pages. It just stops half way though, and greys out, and I have to force close the window. Can somebody help please? John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox wont open up since yesterdays nightly update
On 13 April 2010 10:52, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4pre) Gecko/20100410 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Namoroka/3.6.4pre GTB6 That is what I am using, and FF worked ok opened, fine. Then after that Firefox window will now open, but it fails to completely download the page. I use firefox to read the BBC news on its website, now I cannot even open the pages. It just stops half way though, and greys out, and I have to force close the window. Can somebody help please? Sounds a bit like a problem with an extension. Try creating a new profile and using that. IIRC, you have to shut down all firefox instances (killall firefox) and then start the profile manager (firefox -P). Both of those commands can either be typed in a terminal, or using Alt-F2 to display the Run Application prompt. If it stops it crashing, you need to disable all your extensions and find out which one is causing the crashes (which can take a while, depending on how many you have installed). Hope this helps. Good luck! Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox force quit?
2009/12/6 Jonathon Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com: 2009/12/6 Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk: Ever since Feisty I've had to use Force Quit to exit Firefox, and on every upgrade I've kept saying Well, it is an oldish computer. Now I've upgraded to 9.10, with a new version of Firefox, on a fairly new machine, and the only thing that's changed is that on 9.10 the buttons are reversed so I keep clicking on Wait instead of close! :( Has anyone else had this problem? Dianne Nope. Have you tried a starting in Safe Mode to see if it still happens? Sounds like an extension making it hang... $ firefox -safe-mode If it doesn't hang with no extensions loaded start disabling likely extensions (or disable all and re-enable one at a time) until you find the culprit. The other thing that could be causing it Dianne is your profile. Try Jonathon's suggestion, and if that doesn't work create a new profile and see if that fixes things. You have to make sure that firefox isn't running before it will let you switch which profile is active. Try looking here http://gaarai.com/2009/02/23/multiple-firefox-profiles-in-ubuntu/ and here http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Profiles for more info, and ask on the list if you get stuck. Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox force quit?
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 21:06 +, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: Nope. Have you tried a starting in Safe Mode to see if it still happens? Sounds like an extension making it hang... $ firefox -safe-mode If it doesn't hang with no extensions loaded start disabling likely extensions (or disable all and re-enable one at a time) until you find the culprit. I had to do that for another problem - my icons were missing, and if I added them manually the disappeared on restart. Not only did I cure that problem, but this one as well. The culprit? Don't know why I wasted list time - it was of course that stupid Ubuntu Firefox Modifications add-on. I had it disabled in previous versions, but disabling it now seems to have cured both the problems. Thanks for all the advice - in my Windows days safe mode is the first thing I'd try. This Linux lark is making me soft. :) Dianne -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Firefox force quit?
Ever since Feisty I've had to use Force Quit to exit Firefox, and on every upgrade I've kept saying Well, it is an oldish computer. Now I've upgraded to 9.10, with a new version of Firefox, on a fairly new machine, and the only thing that's changed is that on 9.10 the buttons are reversed so I keep clicking on Wait instead of close! :( Has anyone else had this problem? Dianne -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox force quit?
2009/12/6 Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk: Ever since Feisty I've had to use Force Quit to exit Firefox, and on every upgrade I've kept saying Well, it is an oldish computer. Now I've upgraded to 9.10, with a new version of Firefox, on a fairly new machine, and the only thing that's changed is that on 9.10 the buttons are reversed so I keep clicking on Wait instead of close! :( Has anyone else had this problem? Dianne Nope. Have you tried a starting in Safe Mode to see if it still happens? Sounds like an extension making it hang... $ firefox -safe-mode If it doesn't hang with no extensions loaded start disabling likely extensions (or disable all and re-enable one at a time) until you find the culprit. Jonathon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox force quit?
If you run from terminal does it give you any messages to debug? Many Thanks Neil Perry 2009/12/6 Jonathon Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com: 2009/12/6 Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk: Ever since Feisty I've had to use Force Quit to exit Firefox, and on every upgrade I've kept saying Well, it is an oldish computer. Now I've upgraded to 9.10, with a new version of Firefox, on a fairly new machine, and the only thing that's changed is that on 9.10 the buttons are reversed so I keep clicking on Wait instead of close! :( Has anyone else had this problem? Dianne Nope. Have you tried a starting in Safe Mode to see if it still happens? Sounds like an extension making it hang... $ firefox -safe-mode If it doesn't hang with no extensions loaded start disabling likely extensions (or disable all and re-enable one at a time) until you find the culprit. Jonathon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox force quit?
Dianne Reuby wrote: Ever since Feisty I've had to use Force Quit to exit Firefox, and on every upgrade I've kept saying Well, it is an oldish computer. Now I've upgraded to 9.10, with a new version of Firefox, on a fairly new machine, and the only thing that's changed is that on 9.10 the buttons are reversed so I keep clicking on Wait instead of close! :( Has anyone else had this problem? Dianne I've had Firefox freeze up a couple of times, although I do have a whole load of tabs open usually, I've also noticed sometimes the sound stops working on Flash stuff as well. Generally I just kill Firefox and re-open it. It's one of those things that maybe I should investigate, but I just haven't got round to doing yet. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox force quit?
On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:03:52 -, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Ever since Feisty I've had to use Force Quit to exit Firefox, and on every upgrade I've kept saying Well, it is an oldish computer. Now I've upgraded to 9.10, with a new version of Firefox, on a fairly new machine, and the only thing that's changed is that on 9.10 the buttons are reversed so I keep clicking on Wait instead of close! :( Has anyone else had this problem? Dianne On older sub 2GHz machines I get that problem and clicking wait it normally closes after a little while. It occurs less often if Adblock isn’t installed. -- Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu 9.04
Is there a relatively easy way to do this? I find it surprising that I can add a repo and get OO 3.1.1, but I can't seem to get FF 3.5! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu 9.04
Gordon wrote: Is there a relatively easy way to do this? I find it surprising that I can add a repo and get OO 3.1.1, but I can't seem to get FF 3.5! Firefox 3.5 is in the Ubuntu repositories. Try sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5 or search for firefox-3.5 in synaptic. The only thing to be aware of is that to avoid confusion/conflict, Firefox 3.5 is called shiretoko in Ubuntu 9.04. Hope that helps. Dave -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu 9.04
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:18:05 +0100, David Jones djones.dan...@googlemail.com wrote: Gordon wrote: Is there a relatively easy way to do this? I find it surprising that I can add a repo and get OO 3.1.1, but I can't seem to get FF 3.5! Firefox 3.5 is in the Ubuntu repositories. Try sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5 or search for firefox-3.5 in synaptic. The only thing to be aware of is that to avoid confusion/conflict, Firefox 3.5 is called shiretoko in Ubuntu 9.04. Hope that helps. Dave https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ppa for the latest builds -- Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Firefox or Shiretoko?
Somehow, an update some time ago installed Shiretoko as a beta version of Firefox 3.5. Meanwhile the old version of Firefox remains and also gets updated from time to time. What's going on? Where did the name Shiretoko come from anyway? Paul -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox or Shiretoko?
2009/8/12 Paul Webster paulwebbi...@googlemail.com: Somehow, an update some time ago installed Shiretoko as a beta version of Firefox 3.5. Meanwhile the old version of Firefox remains and also gets updated from time to time. What's going on? Where did the name Shiretoko come from anyway? http://www.asoftsite.org/s9y/archives/161-FAQ-Why-is-my-firefox-3.5-still-called-Shiretoko.html Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox or Shiretoko?
Here's a rundown of how firefox naming works in the ubuntu repos: The current stable version that is in the ubuntu repositries is called firefox The later versions (currently 3.5 and 3.6) are given code names (such as Shiretoko) so as not to be confused with the current default version of firefox. Because of this, if you download either 3.5 or 3.6 from the ubuntu repos, it won't be called Firefox, but will have a 'codename' 2009/8/12 Paul Webster paulwebbi...@googlemail.com Somehow, an update some time ago installed Shiretoko as a beta version of Firefox 3.5. Meanwhile the old version of Firefox remains and also gets updated from time to time. What's going on? Where did the name Shiretoko come from anyway? Paul -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Check out my blog at http://dave1022.wordpress.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox or Shiretoko?
Paul Webster wrote: Somehow, an update some time ago installed Shiretoko as a beta version of Firefox 3.5. Meanwhile the old version of Firefox remains and also gets updated from time to time. What's going on? Where did the name Shiretoko come from anyway? Paul Shiretoko was the codename for firefox while it was in development, hopefully this link will explain the reasoning behind the two versions in Ubuntu now http://www.asoftsite.org/s9y/archives/161-guid.html. Until Karmic is released, both versions will continue to be supported, but from that link, when Karmic is released, that will by default come with Firefox 3.5 and would be named firefox because it wouldn't also include firefox 3.0. Hope that helps. Dave -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox or Shiretoko?
That is odd that you mention that. I had problems initially with the Shiretoko version, and it wouldn't install addons and I couldnt get other bits of it to work, since it got the final update, the addons now work, but its still called Shiretoko 3.5.2. I quite like the idea of being able to open them side by side, and it seems it doesnt use the same profile as the 3.0.13 which I think is even better. That is one of the bugbears I have with the windows version, it automatically looks for an excising profile, and wont work side by side properly. Will that be updated sometime so that it only shows Fiefox not Shiretoko? John. Alan Pope wrote: 2009/8/12 Paul Webster paulwebbi...@googlemail.com: Somehow, an update some time ago installed Shiretoko as a beta version of Firefox 3.5. Meanwhile the old version of Firefox remains and also gets updated from time to time. What's going on? Where did the name Shiretoko come from anyway? http://www.asoftsite.org/s9y/archives/161-FAQ-Why-is-my-firefox-3.5-still-called-Shiretoko.html Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox or Shiretoko?
Sorry, posted my last e-mail, before I got these two e-mails through. Thanks for the explanation. John. David Jones wrote: Paul Webster wrote: Somehow, an update some time ago installed Shiretoko as a beta version of Firefox 3.5. Meanwhile the old version of Firefox remains and also gets updated from time to time. What's going on? Where did the name Shiretoko come from anyway? Paul Shiretoko was the codename for firefox while it was in development, hopefully this link will explain the reasoning behind the two versions in Ubuntu now http://www.asoftsite.org/s9y/archives/161-guid.html. Until Karmic is released, both versions will continue to be supported, but from that link, when Karmic is released, that will by default come with Firefox 3.5 and would be named firefox because it wouldn't also include firefox 3.0. Hope that helps. Dave -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox or Shiretoko?
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Paul Webster wrote: What's going on? Where did the name Shiretoko come from anyway? Shiretokois the code name for developer-only releases of what was eventually shipped as Firefox-3.5 by Mozilla/Mozilla Corp. Karmic Koala is the code name for developer-only releases of what will[0] eventually shipped as Ubuntu 9.10 by Ubuntu/Canonical Ltd. -Paul [0] Contains forward looking statements, yada, yada---which is the reason code names are until a release has actually happened---and then proper names afterwards. -- Why do one side of a triangle when you can do all three. Somewhere, GB. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, ubuntu and tesco shopping online
2009/6/21 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com: William Anderson wrote: Harry Rickards wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/21/09 12:56, Lucy wrote: ... You could try the User Agent Switcher Firefox plugin (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59), to 'pretend' that it's running on Windows. Some websites try to detect what browser/OS you're running and display the page differently. It's the main cause I can think of if you're running the same browser on two different OSs. Or just change general.useragent.extra.firefox in about:config. User Agent Switcher lets you change browser identity at the flick of a drop down switch, having to wire into about:config and remember what you're supposed to type in each time would tire rather quickly, methinks :) The browser identity is not the problem. The relevant tesco page is simply not being correctly nor completely shown. In fact it seems to be a bit intermittent, on one machine it at first did not work, then later it did work. It seems to be firefox version specific too. 3.0.10 is ok, while 3.0.11 is a problem However, a change of browser to Epiphany, worked very well. -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Hi Alan, My wife had a similar problem with 7.10 and 8.04, and the default versions of Firefox that were installed on them. Intermittently, it prompts to download/save a .aspx or some other binary file. Whatever option you choose, a bit of the web page goes missing. My workaround was to install the Windows version of Firefox using Wine, but I'll also try Epiphany. It's a bit confusing (at least for me!) to have to use a different Firefox icon on her desktop when I want to visit tesco.com... Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, ubuntu and tesco shopping online
Hi We too had problems with Hardy and Firefox, and several exchanges with customer services. They admitted that the site is designed around IE, and ended up directing us to use the 'accessibility' site - you get directed to it when you sign on, if Javascript is disabled. It doesn't look as nice, and my wife isn't too keen, but it has worked so far. I pointed out that directing people to a more basic site based on their choice of operating system and browser was a bit like sending customers round to the back entrance unless they drive up in a certain make of car. I don't suppose it did much good, but it made me feel better. -- Kevin Safford -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Firefox, ubuntu and tesco shopping online
I am helping someone with shopping online at tesco.com and it looks as if the recent new version of firefox 3.0.11 in ubuntu (8.04.2) at least, does not display the page completely, making shopping impossible. The significant thing missing is the search field: right hand side: I'm looking for (enter product name) [search] I have used a windows machine, and look with firefox (same version number 3.0.11) the page is displayed fully correctly I would appreciate comments to help with this, there is an elderly tesco customer trying to do shopping.. maybe different browsers might be a good idea? -- alan cocks Ubuntu user #10391 Linux user #360648 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, ubuntu and tesco shopping online
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/21/09 11:04, alan c wrote: I am helping someone with shopping online at tesco.com and it looks as if the recent new version of firefox 3.0.11 in ubuntu (8.04.2) at least, does not display the page completely, making shopping impossible. The significant thing missing is the search field: right hand side: I'm looking for (enter product name) [search] I have used a windows machine, and look with firefox (same version number 3.0.11) the page is displayed fully correctly I would appreciate comments to help with this, there is an elderly tesco customer trying to do shopping.. maybe different browsers might be a good idea? You could try the testing version of Firefox 3.5, as it uses a different JavaScript rendering engine. Release Candidate 2 was released today (I think). - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (GPG Key ID:58449F6F) - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C UL P- L+++ E--- W+++ N o K+ w--- O- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b+++ DI D G e* h! !r y? - --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iJwEAQECAAYFAko+DKsACgkQ+9DWHFhEn2/IkAP+PuW0QXqWdgmRdYx0RuDWGytd 9AsTDMywSrEzXjOaY11ugWPqNccU6ulv5EefIwt2ejzPXd85Yrfr5uhW78AkN6/B g2y2/RPjyaIkwLtyeU780TnfygVlPvqxM5XxIOjJC43ugrb6dDQyvrCk/Z8jinLB QxRi8Q2p4y8TQGPskVM= =7RSA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, ubuntu and tesco shopping online
Harry Rickards wrote: On 06/21/09 11:04, alan c wrote: I am helping someone with shopping online at tesco.com and it looks as if the recent new version of firefox 3.0.11 in ubuntu (8.04.2) at least, does not display the page completely, making shopping impossible. The significant thing missing is the search field: right hand side: I'm looking for (enter product name) [search] I have used a windows machine, and look with firefox (same version number 3.0.11) the page is displayed fully correctly I would appreciate comments to help with this, there is an elderly tesco customer trying to do shopping.. maybe different browsers might be a good idea? You could try the testing version of Firefox 3.5, as it uses a different JavaScript rendering engine. Release Candidate 2 was released today (I think). thanks, although I am not keen to use beta stuff this would be for an 89 year old user. I have now found that epiphany works ok, in fact nicely fast, so I may consider that. firefox 3.0.10 in ubuntu does not have the problem, and 3.0.11 in windows is ok too. -- alan cocks Ubuntu user #10391 Linux user #360648 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, ubuntu and tesco shopping online
2009/6/21 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com: Harry Rickards wrote: On 06/21/09 11:04, alan c wrote: I am helping someone with shopping online at tesco.com and it looks as if the recent new version of firefox 3.0.11 in ubuntu (8.04.2) at least, does not display the page completely, making shopping impossible. The significant thing missing is the search field: right hand side: I'm looking for (enter product name) [search] I have used a windows machine, and look with firefox (same version number 3.0.11) the page is displayed fully correctly I would appreciate comments to help with this, there is an elderly tesco customer trying to do shopping.. maybe different browsers might be a good idea? You could try the testing version of Firefox 3.5, as it uses a different JavaScript rendering engine. Release Candidate 2 was released today (I think). thanks, although I am not keen to use beta stuff this would be for an 89 year old user. I have now found that epiphany works ok, in fact nicely fast, so I may consider that. firefox 3.0.10 in ubuntu does not have the problem, and 3.0.11 in windows is ok too. You could try the User Agent Switcher Firefox plugin (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59), to 'pretend' that it's running on Windows. Some websites try to detect what browser/OS you're running and display the page differently. It's the main cause I can think of if you're running the same browser on two different OSs. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, ubuntu and tesco shopping online
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/21/09 12:56, Lucy wrote: ... You could try the User Agent Switcher Firefox plugin (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59), to 'pretend' that it's running on Windows. Some websites try to detect what browser/OS you're running and display the page differently. It's the main cause I can think of if you're running the same browser on two different OSs. Or just change general.useragent.extra.firefox in about:config. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (GPG Key ID:58449F6F) - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C UL P- L+++ E--- W+++ N o K+ w--- O- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b+++ DI D G e* h! !r y? - --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iJwEAQECAAYFAko+INYACgkQ+9DWHFhEn29ckAP9GjEcqFV9gPnv9oSCu/eqssBZ 2lP20a/0Y9bEaJ9e7JBRy/l06D3qkJg8HTz8vriHbKAcr4UFJzgjkMQuij90A4bc AdPi1EoKLa9ZKiVjmyovRt1v/IXdebtirLUxu6RgeJUg5e3GBywAxaE5KApCS8f3 B8qqMyCmTWQmvumwOLw= =tiAN -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, ubuntu and tesco shopping online
Harry Rickards wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/21/09 12:56, Lucy wrote: ... You could try the User Agent Switcher Firefox plugin (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59), to 'pretend' that it's running on Windows. Some websites try to detect what browser/OS you're running and display the page differently. It's the main cause I can think of if you're running the same browser on two different OSs. Or just change general.useragent.extra.firefox in about:config. User Agent Switcher lets you change browser identity at the flick of a drop down switch, having to wire into about:config and remember what you're supposed to type in each time would tire rather quickly, methinks :) -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, ubuntu and tesco shopping online
William Anderson wrote: Harry Rickards wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/21/09 12:56, Lucy wrote: ... You could try the User Agent Switcher Firefox plugin (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59), to 'pretend' that it's running on Windows. Some websites try to detect what browser/OS you're running and display the page differently. It's the main cause I can think of if you're running the same browser on two different OSs. Or just change general.useragent.extra.firefox in about:config. User Agent Switcher lets you change browser identity at the flick of a drop down switch, having to wire into about:config and remember what you're supposed to type in each time would tire rather quickly, methinks :) The browser identity is not the problem. The relevant tesco page is simply not being correctly nor completely shown. In fact it seems to be a bit intermittent, on one machine it at first did not work, then later it did work. It seems to be firefox version specific too. 3.0.10 is ok, while 3.0.11 is a problem However, a change of browser to Epiphany, worked very well. -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox Bookmark sharing? (was Home partitions do I need one?)
Harry Rickards wrote: On 14 Jun 2009, at 13:37, Michael Iain Douglas meh...@mehall.co.cc wrote: mac wrote: Mac: slight problem: some of us use windows too. And yes, yes, you can ext working under Windows, but it's not exactly rock solid. Someone should get XMarks, and then make it so you can use a server or location of your choice. --Michael -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Didn't Mozilla start up a similar project, but closed down their server, so you *had* to use your own server? Never heard of that... linkage? --Michael -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox Bookmark sharing? (was Home partitions do I need one?)
Harry Rickards wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mozilla Weave (http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/12/introducing-weave/). There's a howto for your own server at http://marios.tziortzis.com/page/blog/article/setting-up-mozilla-weave-on-your-server/, and I think I read on Lifehacker that you can use Box.Net as well (I can't find that article at the moment.) - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (GPG Key ID:58449F6F) - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C UL P- L+++ E--- W+++ N o K+ w--- O- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b+++ DI D G e* h! !r y? - --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iJwEAQECAAYFAko09GcACgkQ+9DWHFhEn2+mhgQAuemewKLyHJC0J/Lu7F9TjfsJ 6zaq9s8QmlNVFEfOphfGrHx9/KBykW9K4OOO2ObOVihUetXh5gWTram/zUImdN3Z UsNVWDrwv+lOHUNhEMdPyexl6d/ObcbZK4ZLwyxGId+IErIN8p+hWxXmS+5x2H4n ete6OL8umYbm0yaPw5Q= =3eEy -END PGP SIGNATURE- Looked it up. Seems to be they're gonna push it again. It says, on the site (the current page for the project) you need to be running the latest 3.5 Beta for it. :/ As I said, XMarks (formerly Foxmarks) does me for just now. --Michael -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, Swiftfox and Swiftweasel
I have started to notice that the windows Firefox version 3.0.7 crashes every now and then. The same can be said for the apple version as well, On Ubuntu 8.10 i don't get that and i notice last night that it loaded pictures faster than both the apple and windows cussons. On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:06 PM, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote: I too have had problems with Firefox. Mostly sites with Flash. I have tried various recent versions of Flash, and most Flash-heavy sites just cause Firefox to crash or else I get an error saying that Flash is not installed. I also use Flock which works perfectly with Flash sites, e.g. the new Street View on Google Maps. I have not heard of Swiftweasel, but I have heard of Iceweasel. Is it worth trying one of those to replace Firefox? I like Firefox, but not its lack of ability to use Flash properly in Linux. David King Jai Harrison wrote: Hey everyone, I've been experiencing some issues with Firefox lately (freezing during general use, lagging during Flash video playback, etc.). So I looked into it and it appears that the binary provided in Ubuntu for Firefox doesn't use some special compiler/compile method that is used on the Windows binaries. Next I found Swiftfox but because it is proprietary software I continued to search the web until I came across Swiftweasel (which is AFAIK the same thing but without the Firefox branding). Unfortunately the latest *.deb provided is for version 3.0.3 (there have been numerous security patches since then) and the tar.gz along with instructions for 3.0.8 does not appear to work on Ubuntu (I've tried it). So I've been using Swiftweasel 3.0.3 lately and didn't notice much difference which led me to believe that my Firefox profile might have been damaged by an extension or simply have gotten crowded over the years. Thus I created a new profile but when trying to install Google Gears in Swiftweasel it wouldn't acknowledge installation on any Gears enabled websites. So I copied my profile over to Firefox and got Gears to work in that now leaving me running a newish profile under Firefox with a few questions. 1) How much better will the performance be from Swiftweasel? Is it worth migrating this profile back to the browser with the understanding that Gears will probably work now it's been installed? As such should I spend further time trying to get the Firefox 3.0.8 tar.gz to work in Ubuntu or just settle for 3.0.3 knowing there is exposed security flaws in it? 2) How come Firefox is so slow on GNU/Linux anyway? I've been looking at threads on the Ubuntu forums where people go as far as to say that Firefox is as much as twice as fast on Windows XP. Surely someone inside Canonical will compile Firefox using the same compiling technique as used with Windows if that is what's causing the problem. Otherwise how come that a FOSS browser is slower on the most open platform OS when the majority of its users on said platform are developers? I have an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU (2MB Cache) T5750 @ 2.00GHz along with 2GB of RAM (over half of which isn't being used). This doesn't seem to be a question of insufficient hardware to me. I await your replies, Jai Venko -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Robert Flatters, AMBSC -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Firefox, Swiftfox and Swiftweasel
Hey everyone, I've been experiencing some issues with Firefox lately (freezing during general use, lagging during Flash video playback, etc.). So I looked into it and it appears that the binary provided in Ubuntu for Firefox doesn't use some special compiler/compile method that is used on the Windows binaries. Next I found Swiftfox but because it is proprietary software I continued to search the web until I came across Swiftweasel (which is AFAIK the same thing but without the Firefox branding). Unfortunately the latest *.deb provided is for version 3.0.3 (there have been numerous security patches since then) and the tar.gz along with instructions for 3.0.8 does not appear to work on Ubuntu (I've tried it). So I've been using Swiftweasel 3.0.3 lately and didn't notice much difference which led me to believe that my Firefox profile might have been damaged by an extension or simply have gotten crowded over the years. Thus I created a new profile but when trying to install Google Gears in Swiftweasel it wouldn't acknowledge installation on any Gears enabled websites. So I copied my profile over to Firefox and got Gears to work in that now leaving me running a newish profile under Firefox with a few questions. 1) How much better will the performance be from Swiftweasel? Is it worth migrating this profile back to the browser with the understanding that Gears will probably work now it's been installed? As such should I spend further time trying to get the Firefox 3.0.8 tar.gz to work in Ubuntu or just settle for 3.0.3 knowing there is exposed security flaws in it? 2) How come Firefox is so slow on GNU/Linux anyway? I've been looking at threads on the Ubuntu forums where people go as far as to say that Firefox is as much as twice as fast on Windows XP. Surely someone inside Canonical will compile Firefox using the same compiling technique as used with Windows if that is what's causing the problem. Otherwise how come that a FOSS browser is slower on the most open platform OS when the majority of its users on said platform are developers? I have an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU (2MB Cache) T5750 @ 2.00GHz along with 2GB of RAM (over half of which isn't being used). This doesn't seem to be a question of insufficient hardware to me. I await your replies, Jai Venko -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, Swiftfox and Swiftweasel
I have Firefox on two machines side-by-side right now, one running Ubuntu 8.10 and the other running Windows XP, and Firefox runs extremely fast on the Ubuntu machine and extremely slow on the Windows one. I admit the machine running Ubuntu has a faster CPU, but the freezing and lagging you describe are and have always been Windows-related problems for me, and I have had none of them on the Ubuntu machine at all. Perhaps you are using an older version of Ubuntu, like 8.04? On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 21:02 +0100, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: Message: 8 Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:52:23 +0100 From: Jai Harrison j...@jaiharrison.com Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, Swiftfox and Swiftweasel To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: 37eeeb790903311152o36ef84c0l640b95400b400...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hey everyone, I've been experiencing some issues with Firefox lately (freezing during general use, lagging during Flash video playback, etc.). So I looked into it and it appears that the binary provided in Ubuntu for Firefox doesn't use some special compiler/compile method that is used on the Windows binaries. Next I found Swiftfox but because it is proprietary software I continued to search the web until I came across Swiftweasel (which is AFAIK the same thing but without the Firefox branding). Unfortunately the latest *.deb provided is for version 3.0.3 (there have been numerous security patches since then) and the tar.gz along with instructions for 3.0.8 does not appear to work on Ubuntu (I've tried it). So I've been using Swiftweasel 3.0.3 lately and didn't notice much difference which led me to believe that my Firefox profile might have been damaged by an extension or simply have gotten crowded over the years. Thus I created a new profile but when trying to install Google Gears in Swiftweasel it wouldn't acknowledge installation on any Gears enabled websites. So I copied my profile over to Firefox and got Gears to work in that now leaving me running a newish profile under Firefox with a few questions. 1) How much better will the performance be from Swiftweasel? Is it worth migrating this profile back to the browser with the understanding that Gears will probably work now it's been installed? As such should I spend further time trying to get the Firefox 3.0.8 tar.gz to work in Ubuntu or just settle for 3.0.3 knowing there is exposed security flaws in it? 2) How come Firefox is so slow on GNU/Linux anyway? I've been looking at threads on the Ubuntu forums where people go as far as to say that Firefox is as much as twice as fast on Windows XP. Surely someone inside Canonical will compile Firefox using the same compiling technique as used with Windows if that is what's causing the problem. Otherwise how come that a FOSS browser is slower on the most open platform OS when the majority of its users on said platform are developers? I have an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU (2MB Cache) T5750 @ 2.00GHz along with 2GB of RAM (over half of which isn't being used). This doesn't seem to be a question of insufficient hardware to me. I await your replies, Jai Venko -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, Swiftfox and Swiftweasel
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:52:23 +0100, Jai Harrison wrote: I've been experiencing some issues with Firefox lately (freezing during general use, lagging during Flash video playback, etc.). I'm using FF on 2 machines with Ubuntu 8.04. Yes, starting at the first time FF does it damn slow. Sometimes it takes it from 6 to 10 seconds to appear. Otherwise it runs just fine, no complaints. So I've been using Swiftweasel 3.0.3 lately and didn't notice much difference I've tried Swiftweasel 3.0.3 PGO myself and did not notice much difference comparing with FF either. If it starts a little faster the difference might be in a second or two, if any. There was one website that did not work with FF but surprisingly worked with Swiftweasel. So, FF lost on that. But for me it was not a big deal, so I prefered to keep FF as my default browser. BTW, I actually liked Swiftweasel but... It's pretty hard to favour Swiftweasel more then FF considering the developer's support depends of his OS preferences. E.g. he used to provide deb packages for Ubuntu and then stopped just because he switched from Ubuntu to Arch. So, currently and further on the only option to install the latest would be a tarball. But keeping that thing up to date would be then a permanent job. Especially considering that starting from version 3.0 Swiftweasel does not support importing FF profile. Thus in addition to manual install new/remove old one would have to take care of manual profiles moving too. Well, after a thought I decided that using it would require to much of effort. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wulfy wrote: I removed my .mozilla directory in /home/wulfy. Nothing in /etc, /usr/bin, /usr/lib or /usr/share. I reinstall Firefox... I click on Tools/add-ons.. and there is a list of all the add-ons I used to have waiting to be uninstalled when I restart Firefox... It looks like extensions in my setup go into the .mozilla directory. Does anyone have any idea what is happening? Am I alone in having problems like this? Sorry Wulfy, never had issues like these - I have FF2 and FF3 side by side. I can't see anything 'crazy' in what you're doing though if that helps. - -- Stephen O'Neill w: http://www.thefloatingfrog.co.uk/ e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFIcbRMJ+Auntu1v4QRAlN/AJ4hO/4z+OYAW6Ngy8TpJZAJuBZ8/ACfX6i7 2druAjC4BfyJ+IC9YuA6+nw= =q/y2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox?
Stephen O'Neill wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wulfy wrote: I removed my .mozilla directory in /home/wulfy. Nothing in /etc, /usr/bin, /usr/lib or /usr/share. I reinstall Firefox... I click on Tools/add-ons.. and there is a list of all the add-ons I used to have waiting to be uninstalled when I restart Firefox... It looks like extensions in my setup go into the .mozilla directory. Does anyone have any idea what is happening? Am I alone in having problems like this? Sorry Wulfy, never had issues like these - I have FF2 and FF3 side by side. I can't see anything 'crazy' in what you're doing though if that helps. Stephen O'Neill Thanks, Stephen. I upgraded to FF3 when it came out of beta. It was working fine. Then I had to change the motherboard and reinstall, which fixed my sound problem but screwed up FF... sigh It does seem to work intermittently now. I just never know when it's going to crash. :@( -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the elders. Teach the young. Co-operate with the pack. Play when you can. Hunt when you must. Rest in between. Share your affections. Voice your opinion. Leave your Mark. Copyright July 17, 1988 by Del Goetz -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox?
Wulfy wrote: I was having problems with Firefox-3.0 crashing so I thought I'd remove it and re-install Firefox-2. This did not go well... So, after removing all the add-ons (which didn't go) and still having problems I decided to purge everything to do with Firefox and start from scratch. Fat chance. I removed my .mozilla directory in /home/wulfy. Nothing in /etc, /usr/bin, /usr/lib or /usr/share. I reinstall Firefox... I click on Tools/add-ons.. and there is a list of all the add-ons I used to have waiting to be uninstalled when I restart Firefox... sigh Where is Firefox hiding the data? How can I start fresh? I'm beginning to really hate this program... Kubuntu Hardy up-to-date Update: Now FF3 won't start at all. I get the following error repeated a few times: ** (firefox:32394): WARNING **: Exception in gr::RangeSegment In safe-mode that's all I get and a frozen unresponsive GUI. In normal mode I get: *** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/firefox: realloc(): invalid next size: 0x090cc758 *** And a long backtrace, which itself freezes after a large amount of data is printed. Does anyone have any idea what is happening? Am I alone in having problems like this? -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the elders. Teach the young. Co-operate with the pack. Play when you can. Hunt when you must. Rest in between. Share your affections. Voice your opinion. Leave your Mark. Copyright July 17, 1988 by Del Goetz -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox?
Wulfy wrote: I was having problems with Firefox-3.0 crashing so I thought I'd remove it and re-install Firefox-2. This did not go well... So, after removing all the add-ons (which didn't go) and still having problems I decided to purge everything to do with Firefox and start from scratch. Fat chance. I removed my .mozilla directory in /home/wulfy. Nothing in /etc, /usr/bin, /usr/lib or /usr/share. I reinstall Firefox... I click on Tools/add-ons.. and there is a list of all the add-ons I used to have waiting to be uninstalled when I restart Firefox... sigh Where is Firefox hiding the data? How can I start fresh? I'm beginning to really hate this program... Kubuntu Hardy up-to-date What are the add-ons that you have listed? Were they installed via apt-get, or through firefox itself? And are they uninstalled when you restart Firefox? John -- John Levin http://www.technolalia.org/blog/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox?
John Levin wrote: Wulfy wrote: I was having problems with Firefox-3.0 crashing so I thought I'd remove it and re-install Firefox-2. This did not go well... So, after removing all the add-ons (which didn't go) and still having problems I decided to purge everything to do with Firefox and start from scratch. Fat chance. I removed my .mozilla directory in /home/wulfy. Nothing in /etc, /usr/bin, /usr/lib or /usr/share. I reinstall Firefox... I click on Tools/add-ons.. and there is a list of all the add-ons I used to have waiting to be uninstalled when I restart Firefox... sigh Where is Firefox hiding the data? How can I start fresh? I'm beginning to really hate this program... Kubuntu Hardy up-to-date What are the add-ons that you have listed? Were they installed via apt-get, or through firefox itself? And are they uninstalled when you restart Firefox? John That seems to have sorted itself... all the add-ons have gone. I reinstalled a couple (Basics (in place of tab mix plus) and Sage Too) and they seem to work. I can't change preferences. FF3 crashes in two different ways on different occasions, one: it will close the program just opening preferences; the other: it freezes as soon as I click on a tab on the dialogue. It also freezes on some pages loading (I think those that have flash content) and just shows a busy cursor. I have no idea where to go next with this. -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the elders. Teach the young. Co-operate with the pack. Play when you can. Hunt when you must. Rest in between. Share your affections. Voice your opinion. Leave your Mark. Copyright July 17, 1988 by Del Goetz -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Firefox?
I was having problems with Firefox-3.0 crashing so I thought I'd remove it and re-install Firefox-2. This did not go well... So, after removing all the add-ons (which didn't go) and still having problems I decided to purge everything to do with Firefox and start from scratch. Fat chance. I removed my .mozilla directory in /home/wulfy. Nothing in /etc, /usr/bin, /usr/lib or /usr/share. I reinstall Firefox... I click on Tools/add-ons.. and there is a list of all the add-ons I used to have waiting to be uninstalled when I restart Firefox... sigh Where is Firefox hiding the data? How can I start fresh? I'm beginning to really hate this program... Kubuntu Hardy up-to-date -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the elders. Teach the young. Co-operate with the pack. Play when you can. Hunt when you must. Rest in between. Share your affections. Voice your opinion. Leave your Mark. Copyright July 17, 1988 by Del Goetz -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox?
Wulfy wrote: I was having problems with Firefox-3.0 crashing so I thought I'd remove it and re-install Firefox-2. This did not go well... So, after removing all the add-ons (which didn't go) and still having problems I decided to purge everything to do with Firefox and start from scratch. Fat chance. I removed my .mozilla directory in /home/wulfy. Nothing in /etc, /usr/bin, /usr/lib or /usr/share. I reinstall Firefox... I click on Tools/add-ons.. and there is a list of all the add-ons I used to have waiting to be uninstalled when I restart Firefox... sigh Where is Firefox hiding the data? How can I start fresh? I'm beginning to really hate this program... Kubuntu Hardy up-to-date Did you try sudo apt-get purge Firefox before installing Firefox 2? Or in synaptic marking Firefox as Mark for Complete Removal that should remove pretty much every trace of Firefox. I must say for a while I was running Firefox 2 and 3 side by side with no problems. -- Jason Liquorish -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox?
Jason Liquorish wrote: Wulfy wrote: Did you try sudo apt-get purge Firefox before installing Firefox 2? Or in synaptic marking Firefox as Mark for Complete Removal that should remove pretty much every trace of Firefox. I must say for a while I was running Firefox 2 and 3 side by side with no problems. Yep. I purged everything. firefox, firefox-2, firefox-3.0. I checked everywhere I could think of to confirm that. They were GONE. Yet when I reinstalled, there were the add-ons... *still* waiting to be uninstalled after Firefox is restarted. I've been using Firefox-3 for ages. No problem. Then suddenly today it started crashing. Now I seem to have totally screwed everything up and I can't even start again with a clean slate because there's some data that FF stores that I can't find. -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the elders. Teach the young. Co-operate with the pack. Play when you can. Hunt when you must. Rest in between. Share your affections. Voice your opinion. Leave your Mark. Copyright July 17, 1988 by Del Goetz -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox?
It's a long-shot, but might they be in /usr/lib/firefox? There are a couple of folders /usr/lib/firefox, /usr/lib/firefox-3.0 etc. on my computer. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox?
Dark Otter wrote: It's a long-shot, but might they be in /usr/lib/firefox? There are a couple of folders /usr/lib/firefox, /usr/lib/firefox-3.0 etc. on my computer. I looked in /usr/lib for anything to do with FF... I even looked in /usr/lib32... all gone. I'm baffled. -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the elders. Teach the young. Co-operate with the pack. Play when you can. Hunt when you must. Rest in between. Share your affections. Voice your opinion. Leave your Mark. Copyright July 17, 1988 by Del Goetz -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Firefox Download Day (Slightly OT)
Hey Everyone A bit of fun... let's all help our favourite browser (that's Firefox of course) get the Guinness World Record for the most downloads in 24 hours... a great accomplishment for the (F)OSS world! BTW, the States are killing us here... we can do better! http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord Later -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox Download Day (Slightly OT)
2008/6/4 Michael Holloway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey Everyone A bit of fun... let's all help our favourite browser (that's Firefox of course) get the Guinness World Record for the most downloads in 24 hours... a great accomplishment for the (F)OSS world! BTW, the States are killing us here... we can do better! Are they? Considering they have a population about five times greater than here, we are actually doing quite well. That said, I see no harm in doing even better :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox Download Day (Slightly OT)
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Philip Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/4 Michael Holloway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey Everyone A bit of fun... let's all help our favourite browser (that's Firefox of course) get the Guinness World Record for the most downloads in 24 hours... a great accomplishment for the (F)OSS world! BTW, the States are killing us here... we can do better! Are they? Considering they have a population about five times greater than here, we are actually doing quite well. That said, I see no harm in doing even better :-) -- Philip Stubbs They have my download... again... -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Company No. 6135915 Registered in England -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox Download Day (Slightly OT)
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 11:49 +0100, Michael Holloway wrote: A bit of fun... let's all help our favourite browser (that's Firefox of course) get the Guinness World Record for the most downloads in 24 hours... a great accomplishment for the (F)OSS world! BTW, the States are killing us here... we can do better! http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord Given most (if not all) of us Ubuntu users get our Firefox crack from the repo or an install CD, the number of people who download firefox is probably much higher than whatever that site says. Of course they can only measure actual downloads from their site, and not from all the Ubuntu mirrors and CDs. Then again, note that all non-ubuntu versions of firefox phone home to check for updates periodically (unless you tell them not to) so I suspect they can get a good idea of how many copies (and of what version) are in use at any time (although proxies will naff that up a little). Cheers, Al. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox Download Day (Slightly OT)
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 11:49 +0100, Michael Holloway wrote: A bit of fun... let's all help our favourite browser (that's Firefox of course) get the Guinness World Record for the most downloads in 24 hours... a great accomplishment for the (F)OSS world! BTW, the States are killing us here... we can do better! Thanks for this! This is a great idea, and a hopefully very successful way to promote open source world wide, even if the site is very American. Holland have almost as much as us. Shameful. Sent it to all my contacts though, hopefully world will catch on. Craig -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox Download Day (Slightly OT)
Hey Everyone A bit of fun... let's all help our favourite browser (that's Firefox of course) get the Guinness World Record for the most downloads in 24 hours... a great accomplishment for the (F)OSS world! BTW, the States are killing us here... we can do better! Are they? Considering they have a population about five times greater than here, we are actually doing quite well. That said, I see no harm in doing even better :-) -- Philip Stubbs at the minute we are ahead of the States. My question is: Why are we not beating Poland!!!, Italy, Germany or France?! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox 3 bookmarks
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 21:18 +0100, Mac wrote: Can anyone advise how best to revert Hardy to Firefox 2? sudo apt-get install firefox-2 ? Cheers, Al. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox 3 bookmarks
There are a few similar apps... I use one on my desktop with ffx3. I'll get the name when i get home. On 5/7/08, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 21:18 +0100, Mac wrote: Can anyone advise how best to revert Hardy to Firefox 2? sudo apt-get install firefox-2 ? Cheers, Al. -- Sent from Google Mail for mobile | mobile.google.com Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Company No. 6135915 Registered in England And Northern Ireland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox 3 bookmarks
I use Foxmarks with FF3.. there is a Beta testing team running Works fine Rgds Ken On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 07:30 +0100, Sean Anderson wrote: An option would be to use Foxmarks syncronisation from addons.mozilla.org... It was my understanding that Foxmarks has not been migrated to FF3 yet? Sean. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
