On a slightly (more) off-topic question - does any one know how fnord
Ubuntu gets around the Mozilla Corp. restrictions with Firefox?
I know that Ubuntu's Firefox install comes with an addon named Ubuntu
Firefox Modifications - I assume they just use that for all their changes.
IIRC the FF
On 18/09/10 12:52, Bret Busby wrote:
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Scott Ferguson wrote:
(a pyrrhic victory!)
What?
Rebirth from the ashes - Phoenix had complications so Firefox was chosen
to symbolise the victorious rebirth of, um, - the spirit/ghost of
Netscape(?).
Supposedly the revenge
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Scott Ferguson wrote:
I understood that some of the functionality
(subroutines/modules/whatever) did not comply with the Debian
philosophy, and so were removed, to make the resultant applications
compliant with the
On 17/09/10 16:40, Bret Busby wrote:
snip read that... (scott) /snip
Please note: in an effort to trim the message to which I am
responding, I cut most of it out, apart from the stuff above, and the
stuff above Mozilla Corp, above, was posted by me, and from there
down, was posted by Scott
On Friday 17 September 2010 06:06:19 Marc Shapiro wrote:
Am I glad that I get my Firefox and Thunderbird direct from Mozilla.
The ability to save its session is one of the things I love about Firefox.
I am running Lenny and use Iceweasel 3.0.6. Sessions get saved automagically.
Lisi
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On 17/09/10 19:01, Lisi wrote:
On Friday 17 September 2010 06:06:19 Marc Shapiro wrote:
Am I glad that I get my Firefox and Thunderbird direct from Mozilla.
The ability to save its session is one of the things I love about Firefox.
I am running Lenny and use Iceweasel 3.0.6. Sessions get
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 00:21, Scott Ferguson
prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote:
On 17/09/10 16:40, Bret Busby wrote:
snip read that... (scott) /snip
Please note: in an effort to trim the message to which I am
responding, I cut most of it out, apart from the stuff above, and the
stuff
On 17/09/10 23:14, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 00:21, Scott Ferguson
prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
(Going from memory here - so someone please correct me if I'm wrong.)
Once apon a time there was Netscape suite - which became Mozilla suite
In spirit only.
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Scott Ferguson wrote:
(a pyrrhic victory!)
What?
Rebirth from the ashes - Phoenix had complications so Firefox was chosen
to symbolise the victorious rebirth of, um, - the spirit/ghost of
Netscape(?).
Supposedly the revenge of Netscape on fnord Microsoft.
Bret Busby wrote:
I understood that some of the functionality
(subroutines/modules/whatever) did not comply with the Debian
philosophy, and so were removed, to make the resultant applications
compliant with the Debian philosophy.
It was a trademark issue. And a philosophy issue. See this
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:13:00 -0600
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:
Bret Busby wrote:
I understood that some of the functionality
(subroutines/modules/whatever) did not comply with the Debian
philosophy, and so were removed, to make the resultant applications
compliant with the Debian
On 09/13/10 01:33, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Klistvud wrote:
Dne, 13. 09. 2010 09:49:17 je Merciadri Luca napisal(a):
Is one obliged to simulate a crash to save its Iceweasel session?
'Simulate'? Isn't it supposed to crash, erm ... automagically?
Well, I generally kill the iceweasel process to
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 19:52, Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 08:57, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote:
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Kelly Clowers wrote:
You say Moz (?) but, if you refer to Seamonkey, that is
On 16/09/10 13:11, Bret Busby wrote:
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 19:52, Kelly Clowers
kelly.clow...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 08:57, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote:
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Kelly Clowers wrote:
You say Moz (?) but, if
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 04:32, Merciadri Luca
luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote:
Klistvud wrote:
Dne, 13. 09. 2010 10:33:42 je Merciadri Luca napisal(a):
You mean, ctrl-q doesn't work?
It works! Nice! I did not know that there was this
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Kelly Clowers wrote:
You say Moz (?) but, if you refer to Seamonkey, that is diifferent (from
what I understand) to iceape, which has, from what I understand, some of the
Mozilla stuff that makes Mozilla software what it is, removed.
The only thing that should be
On Tuesday 14 September 2010 16:48:46 Bret Busby wrote:
Because the Debian people (I believe) omitted iceape and iceweasel from
Debian 5, I had to search, and installed the previous release packages.
Iceweasel is there:
l...@tux:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
5.0.6
l...@tux:~$ aptitude show
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 05:05:11PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
On Tuesday 14 September 2010 16:48:46 Bret Busby wrote:
Because the Debian people (I believe) omitted iceape and iceweasel from
Debian 5, I had to search, and installed the previous release packages.
Iceweasel is there:
l...@tux:~$
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 19:52, Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 08:57, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote:
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Kelly Clowers wrote:
You say Moz (?) but, if you refer to Seamonkey, that is diifferent (from
what I understand) to iceape, which
On 09/14/2010 10:53 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 19:52, Kelly Clowerskelly.clow...@gmail.com wrote:
/snip/
If by some of the functionality was removed, you mean the standard Firefox
and SeaMonkey Icons, then sure. That's about it AFAIK. Trouble with the icon
licensing
On 09/14/2010 10:53 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 19:52, Kelly
Clowerskelly.clow...@gmail.com wrote:
/snip/
If by some of the functionality was removed, you mean the
standard Firefox
and SeaMonkey Icons, then sure. That's about it AFAIK. Trouble with
the icon
Bret Busby wrote:
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 23:45, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote:
Iceape can be convenient, especially beinfg a suite, so it is easy
to click
on a mailto link, and open up the integrated email composer. But,
iceape
appears to be
Dne, 13. 09. 2010 09:49:17 je Merciadri Luca napisal(a):
Is one obliged to simulate a crash to save its Iceweasel session?
'Simulate'? Isn't it supposed to crash, erm ... automagically?
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Klistvud wrote:
Dne, 13. 09. 2010 09:49:17 je Merciadri Luca napisal(a):
Is one obliged to simulate a crash to save its Iceweasel session?
'Simulate'? Isn't it supposed to crash, erm ... automagically?
Well, I generally kill the iceweasel process to make it believe that it
crashed. By this
On 13/09/10 18:33, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Klistvud wrote:
Dne, 13. 09. 2010 09:49:17 je Merciadri Luca napisal(a):
Is one obliged to simulate a crash to save its Iceweasel session?
'Simulate'? Isn't it supposed to crash, erm ... automagically?
Well, I generally kill the iceweasel process to
Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Mon September 13 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Is one obliged to simulate a crash to save its Iceweasel session? That's
generally what I do, but I find it very stupid.
when I have multiple tabs open, and hit the big X to close iceweasel, it
askes
me if I
Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 13/09/10 18:33, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Klistvud wrote:
Dne, 13. 09. 2010 09:49:17 je Merciadri Luca napisal(a):
Is one obliged to simulate a crash to save its Iceweasel session?
'Simulate'? Isn't it supposed to crash, erm ...
Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Mon September 13 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Simply because it does not ask me anymore if I want to save tabs or not.
And that, most of the time, I want to close iceweasel without keeping my
current tabs in memory.
try in iceweasel: about:config
Dne, 13. 09. 2010 10:33:42 je Merciadri Luca napisal(a):
You mean, ctrl-q doesn't work?
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Klistvud wrote:
Dne, 13. 09. 2010 10:33:42 je Merciadri Luca napisal(a):
You mean, ctrl-q doesn't work?
It works! Nice! I did not know that there was this command!
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On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 22:54, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote:
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 23:45, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote:
Iceape can be convenient, especially beinfg a suite, so it is easy to
click
on a mailto link, and open up the integrated
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 04:32, Merciadri Luca
luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote:
Klistvud wrote:
Dne, 13. 09. 2010 10:33:42 je Merciadri Luca napisal(a):
You mean, ctrl-q doesn't work?
It works! Nice! I did not know that there was this command!
In theory, all Linux gui apps should
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 23:45, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote:
Iceape can be convenient, especially beinfg a suite, so it is easy to click
on a mailto link, and open up the integrated email composer. But, iceape
appears to be devoid of memory
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:16:26AM -0400, B. Alexander wrote:
I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable. I
have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a 3.0GHz C2D with a
(lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or xulrunner-stub) have memory
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 08:49, Jens Stimpfle jstimp...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com
wrote:
With 4GB I am never really memory constrained, and everything works
fine with 100+
tabs open continuously for days. It's hard to
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:43:35 +0200 ed3lt...@googlemail.com wrote:
Am 09/07/2010 03:16 PM, schrob B. Alexander:
This morning, after idling all weekend, iceweasel on my work system was
chewing up between 70 and 100% of my cpus, and scrolling pages were
hesitating for several seconds.
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, B. Alexander wrote:
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:16:26 -0400
From: B. Alexander stor...@gmail.com
To: Debian-user List debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Straw poll: What browser do you use?
Resent-Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 13:16:42 + (UTC)
Resent-From:
Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr writes:
Epiphany is (marginally) better than Iceweasel/Firefox. Internet
browsing on GNU/Linux, frankly, just plain sucks -- I mean, it sucks up
all my CPU and all my RAM, permanently. It also makes my machine(s)
heat up and my fans roar like a fully
On 2010-09-09 11:48 +0200, Miles Bader wrote:
chromium (6.0.472.53) has the very nice close a tab and get all its
memory back feature which makes it useful on my relatively
memory-constrained work machine. However it does tend to use more
memory than iceweasel while actually performing
On 9/8/2010 2:00 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In4c872f30.4060...@allums.com, Mark Allums wrote:
Chrome allows me to avoid using Windows IE for certain web sites that I
visit regularly. No other Linux browser is capable of that, in my
experience.
Odd. I haven't had a MS Windows system
Dne, 09. 09. 2010 11:48:24 je Miles Bader napisal(a):
My god, what on earth are you browsing?! (or are you running an
ancient version?)
I'm on stock Lenny with stock IceWeasel 3.0.6. If it only happened on
one machine, I'd think it was some misconfiguration on my part ... but
it does
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes:
Iceweasel (3.6.9) tends to grab memory and keep it (closing tabs may
free some memory, may not), but eventually reaches a stable point and
seems to do OK with memory once it reaches that (it may have long term
leaks, but I generally close my browser every
On Mi, 08 sep 10, 19:24:11, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
On 09/08/2010 06:04 PM, Celejar wrote:
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:25:44 -0400
Gilbert Sullivanwhirly...@comcast.net wrote:
...
youtube.com watching dumb stuff I don't need to be watching. I used to
just use youtube-dl, and that tended to
Angus Hedger wrote:
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:58:19 +0200
Steven redalert.comman...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
While I was comparing browsers I did some quick and dirty benchmarking,
results here [1]
With swiftfox AMD64 (downloaded from there site today) showing as
snip
[1]
On 09/09/2010 12:29 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mi, 08 sep 10, 19:24:11, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
On 09/08/2010 06:04 PM, Celejar wrote:
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:25:44 -0400
Gilbert Sullivanwhirly...@comcast.net wrote:
...
youtube.com watching dumb stuff I don't need to be watching. I used
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 05:56:41PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote:
I never said they would die. I only said that Microsoft is putting more
effort into HTML5 for IE than Silverlight. It's evident by the lack of
even Silverlight pages on Microsoft's own site, as well as partner sites.
No,
On 9/7/10, Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt wrote:
Running Sid on amd64.
Me too, on both amd64 and i686...
...
3. Midori - webkit-based, crashes more than Kazehakase.
...
I've been testing Midori for a while, and it doesn't crash on me. It
has some limitations though:
1.- Java
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Bret Busby wrote:
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 14:45:25 +0800 (WST)
From: Bret Busby b...@busby.net
To: Debian-user List debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, B. Alexander wrote:
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:16:26 -0400
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 23:45, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote:
Iceape can be convenient, especially beinfg a suite, so it is easy to click
on a mailto link, and open up the integrated email composer. But, iceape
appears to be devoid of memory management, and it appears to have a viral
use for
Am 09/07/2010 03:16 PM, schrob B. Alexander:
This morning, after idling all weekend, iceweasel on my work system was
chewing up between 70 and 100% of my cpus, and scrolling pages were
hesitating for several seconds.
So what do others use?
Plain Vanilla flavour of Firefox. Simply
For those who dislike Chrome, how long has it been since you tried it?
I tried it at version 1 (one) and removed it immediately.
But they are up to version 6 (six) now. A lot of changes and
improvements have been made.
Chrome allows me to avoid using Windows IE for certain web sites that I
In 4c872f30.4060...@allums.com, Mark Allums wrote:
Chrome allows me to avoid using Windows IE for certain web sites that I
visit regularly. No other Linux browser is capable of that, in my
experience.
Odd. I haven't had a MS Windows system available in my household for 6 years.
While Konq used
Dne, 08. 09. 2010 01:20:22 je Angus Hedger napisal(a):
[1] http://clients.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/results.action?key=4I7n
Great link, thanx!
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Dne, 08. 09. 2010 02:23:42 je Celejar napisal(a):
browsing on GNU/Linux, frankly, just plain sucks -- I mean, it
sucks up
all my CPU and all my RAM, permanently. It also makes my machine(s)
Permanently? I assume you mean that closing tabs / windows doesn't
help? That's not usually my
Dne, 08. 09. 2010 09:00:29 je Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napisal(a):
I haven't had a MS Windows system available in my household for 6
years.
It's only been about 2 years since I've got rid of the last
dual-booting machine in our household. Now, I'd install debian even on
our toaster if
Dne, 08. 09. 2010 11:04:17 je Klistvud napisal(a):
Someone should make branding stickers so we could stick proud
'Debian-ready' stickers over those gooey spots where 'Windows-ready'
stickers used to be.
Or, better, 'Debian at heart' instead of 'Intel inside'. But I'm geting
off topic
Odd. I haven't had a MS Windows system available in my household for 6 years.
Not really that odd if you play a lot of the latest games on a high spec
PC :)
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In 4c875d58.3050...@sharescope.co.uk, Michal wrote:
Odd. I haven't had a MS Windows system available in my household for 6
years.
Not really that odd if you play a lot of the latest games on a high spec
PC :)
Really? I was playing StarCraft II earlier tonight. Wine is quite adept at
many
I'm running 3.5.11 on sid.
One of the problems that I have (and maybe one of my problems with
performance) is that there are several extensions that I can't live without.
I have a slew of them installed, but the main ones I use on a daily basis
include:
* AdBlock Plus
* Readability
* Secure
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 16:16, B. Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable. I
have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a 3.0GHz C2D with a
(lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or xulrunner-stub) have memory
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:08:14 +0200
Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote:
Hello Klistvud,
Or, better, 'Debian at heart' instead of 'Intel inside'. But I'm
geting off topic ...
Not Debian at Heart, but look at;
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 04:15, B. Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm running 3.5.11 on sid.
One of the problems that I have (and maybe one of my problems with
performance) is that there are several extensions that I can't live without.
I have a slew of them installed, but the main ones I
I didn't figure that was a problem, but I thought I would mention it, both
from a this may be your problem perspective, and (more importantly) a
this is why I really don't want to part from firefox...especially the
adblock plugin. I worked at a site where we had to use windows and IE, and I
never
On 09/07/2010 10:03 PM, Celejar wrote:
On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:29:43 -0500
Kent Westwe...@acu.edu wrote:
...
I just aptitude install'd links, and had no graphics mode. I googled a
solution, and aptitude install'd links2 and ran links2 -g, which
kicked it into graphics mode, but it was WAY
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:02:25 +0200
Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote:
Dne, 08. 09. 2010 01:20:22 je Angus Hedger napisal(a):
[1]
http://clients.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/results.action?key=4I7n
Great link, thanx!
No problem, due to not having anything better todo, I did some
On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 09:11:40 -0400
B. Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote:
I didn't figure that was a problem, but I thought I would mention it, both
from a this may be your problem perspective, and (more importantly) a
this is why I really don't want to part from firefox...especially the
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:30:33 +0200
Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote:
Dne, 08. 09. 2010 02:23:42 je Celejar napisal(a):
browsing on GNU/Linux, frankly, just plain sucks -- I mean, it
sucks up
all my CPU and all my RAM, permanently. It also makes my machine(s)
Permanently? I
On 09/08/2010 08:50 AM, Angus Hedger wrote:
No problem, due to not having anything better todo, I did some
comparisons of windows 7 vs Debian, see here [1] and [2], I ran
everything I could get to finish the test and install.
All tests where ran with clean profiles.
[1]
Really? I was playing StarCraft II earlier tonight. Wine is quite adept at
many games now.
I wouldn't consider myself a PC gamer, but I did build this system with 2x
7800 GTX, overclocked, in SLI mode back in 2005. I simply don't buy games
that wine won't run, or I buy them for my Wii, XBoX
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:49:25 -0500
Kent West we...@acu.edu wrote:
...
Here's the screenshot I saw at the
http://links.twibright.com/features.php link:
http://links.twibright.com/shots/shot1.png
And here's what I see on my machine:
http://goshen.acu.edu/westk/links_shot1.png
This
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:16:26AM -0400, B. Alexander wrote:
I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable. I
have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a 3.0GHz C2D with a
(lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or xulrunner-stub) have memory
On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:16:26 +0200, B. Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote:
So what do others use?
--b
Opera 10.
Oh, it seems that I'm only one that's using Opera as default on my Debian
box. On Win, It's been my #1 for years and I'm so used that I simply can't
abandon all that so-comfy-comfy
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:12:56 -0500
Kent West we...@acu.edu wrote:
On 09/08/2010 08:50 AM, Angus Hedger wrote:
No problem, due to not having anything better todo, I did some
comparisons of windows 7 vs Debian, see here [1] and [2], I ran
everything I could get to finish the test and
B. Alexander wrote:
I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting
unusable. I have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a
3.0GHz C2D with a (lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or
xulrunner-stub) have memory leaks, and after a couple of days, it eats
up
On 09/08/2010 02:17 PM, hugo vanwoerkom wrote:
B. Alexander wrote:
I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting
unusable. I have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a
3.0GHz C2D with a (lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or
xulrunner-stub) have memory
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:06:05 -0400
Gilbert Sullivan whirly...@comcast.net wrote:
I'll be looking at the the version 6 chromium-browser when it shows
up in testing. (The version 5 browser was removed today.) I'm
especially interested in seeing what they're doing for flash support.
I understand
On 09/08/2010 03:50 PM, Angus Hedger wrote:
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:06:05 -0400
Gilbert Sullivanwhirly...@comcast.net wrote:
I'll be looking at the the version 6 chromium-browser when it shows
up in testing. (The version 5 browser was removed today.) I'm
especially interested in seeing what
On 2010-09-08 21:06 +0200, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
I'll be looking at the the version 6 chromium-browser when it shows up
in testing. (The version 5 browser was removed today.)
Could be a long time until this happens. Meanwhile, there is no real
reason why you couldn't try the sid version.
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:53:58 -0400
Gilbert Sullivan whirly...@comcast.net wrote:
Ah! That makes more sense. I was kind of feeling dirty for a little
bit there, wondering just who the GNU/Linux developers might be
crawling into bed with!
Chromium is all BSD, its google chrome that is a bit
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:16 PM, B. Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable. I
have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a 3.0GHz C2D with a
(lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or xulrunner-stub) have
On 09/08/2010 04:55 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-09-08 21:06 +0200, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
I'll be looking at the the version 6 chromium-browser when it shows up
in testing. (The version 5 browser was removed today.)
Could be a long time until this happens. Meanwhile, there is no real
On 09/08/2010 05:07 PM, Angus Hedger wrote:
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:53:58 -0400
Gilbert Sullivanwhirly...@comcast.net wrote:
Ah! That makes more sense. I was kind of feeling dirty for a little
bit there, wondering just who the GNU/Linux developers might be
crawling into bed with!
Chromium is
On 9/8/2010 3:07 PM, Angus Hedger wrote:
Flash might be one of the evils of the web, but it better than
moonlight as most silverlight stuff wont work in moonlight 2.2 where
as flash v10.1 works with pretty much everything (ignoring the total
lack of a good 64bit plug-in and the instability of
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:25:44 -0400
Gilbert Sullivan whirly...@comcast.net wrote:
...
youtube.com watching dumb stuff I don't need to be watching. I used to
just use youtube-dl, and that tended to make me more choosy about what I
would bother with.
+1 for youtube-dl. I just grab whatever I
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:54:07 -0600
Aaron Toponce aaron.topo...@gmail.com wrote:
I was disappointed that Silverlight didn't take off. The reason being,
the GNU/Linux community really doesn't have a solid Flash alternative.
Yeah there's Gnash and others, but they don't play well with a lot of
On 09/08/2010 06:04 PM, Celejar wrote:
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:25:44 -0400
Gilbert Sullivanwhirly...@comcast.net wrote:
...
youtube.com watching dumb stuff I don't need to be watching. I used to
just use youtube-dl, and that tended to make me more choosy about what I
would bother with.
+1
On 9/8/2010 5:22 PM, Angus Hedger wrote:
I highly doubt Silverlight, .Net, and thus by extension moonlight and
mono will die, for example MS's new phone OS is pretty much all
Silverlight and .Net
I never said they would die. I only said that Microsoft is putting more
effort into HTML5 for IE
Aaron Toponce aaron.topo...@gmail.com wrote:
AT Except with text-only browsers, you lose the ability to view images,
AT video, and other interactive features that the web provides.
well, not quite. i continue to use lynx as my primary browser,
with zgv in my .mailcap svgalibs still
On 9/7/2010 8:16 AM, B. Alexander wrote:
So what do others use?
--b
I'm very happy with Google Chrome.
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Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote:
On 9/7/2010 8:16 AM, B. Alexander wrote:
So what do others use?
--b
I'm very happy with Google Chrome.
+1 I use the version from the google repo
$ aptitude show google-chrome-unstable
Package:
Dne, 07. 09. 2010 15:16:26 je B. Alexander napisal(a):
(lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or xulrunner-stub) have
memory
leaks, and after a couple of days, it eats up a significant amount
(10-30%)
of memory. The work box has 3GB and the home box has 4GB. It also
eats up a
B. Alexander stor...@gmail.com writes:
I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable. I
have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a 3.0GHz C2D with a
(lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or xulrunner-stub) have memory
leaks, and after a couple
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, B. Alexander wrote:
I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable. I
have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a 3.0GHz C2D with a
(lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or xulrunner-stub) have memory
leaks, and after a couple
I tried chrome once, and really wasn't impressed with it. First of all, it
didn't play nicely with my kde4 desktop, had its own fisher-price looking
borders, etc. I also wonder how much of my browsing experience that google
is caching and phoning home. I know I use gmail, though I have been
Hi, Alexander:
On Tuesday 07 September 2010 15:16:26 B. Alexander wrote:
I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable.
It's not unusable for me.
I'm using Stable and my browser of preference is Konqueror with Iceweasel when
the site doesn't work properly with
On Tuesday 07 September 2010 15:35:38 Jesús M. Navarro wrote:
On Tuesday 07 September 2010 15:16:26 B. Alexander wrote:
I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable.
It's not unusable for me.
I'm using Stable and my browser of preference is Konqueror with
So what do others use?
Iceweasel 3.5.9. Works fine. The instance I'm using now has been up
for four days but I've had it up for weeks with no problems.
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On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 03:47:00PM +0200, Klistvud wrote:
Epiphany is (marginally) better than Iceweasel/Firefox. Internet
browsing on GNU/Linux, frankly, just plain sucks -- I mean, it sucks
up all my CPU and all my RAM, permanently. It also makes my
machine(s) heat up and my fans roar like a
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:16:26AM -0400, B. Alexander wrote:
I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable.
What is unusable about Iceweasel?
I have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a 3.0GHz C2D with
a (lame) ATI card at work. I find that
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B. Alexander xxx wrote:
I tried chrome once, and really wasn't impressed with it. First of
all, it didn't play nicely with my kde4 desktop, had its own
fisher-price looking borders
Those can be easily fixed if
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