On Sunday 03 January 2016 21:56:46 David Christensen wrote: > On 01/03/2016 02:14 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Well, slashdot can crash chrome just sitting there on the front > > page, presumably when an attempt is made to load some off-my-screen > > bit of slashdot. > > > > http://www.cbsnews.com/news/armed-militia-takeover-oregon-debate-mea > >ning-of-terrorist/ > > Testing IceWeasel 38.5.0 on a fresh install of > debian-7.9.0-amd64-xfce, I see a web page with lots of text and > images. I do not see any error messages. > > > http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-marshal-south-dakota-shoots-kills-sou > >th-carolina-murder-suspect/ > > I see a pop-up/ overlay for ~10 seconds, then I see the web page. > > > http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-quiet-power-of-meditation/ > > I see the web page. > > > http://www.cbsnews.com/news/activists-target-gun-makers-with-unload- > >your-401k/ > > I see the web page. > > > Thats 4 that give this: > > Error 413 Request Entity Too Large, purported from the varnish cache > > server, whatever the heck that is. > > Did you click on something to produce that error message? > Yes, the listed links.
> > http://freedomoutpost.com/2016/01/isis-to-activate-thousands-of-slee > >per-cells-in-2016-to-destabilize-the-west/ > > I see the web page. > > > There I found a flash, tried to play it, > > Following the paragraph "Baghdadi added: ...", I see a grayed area > with the text "A plugin is needed to display this content". Clicking > on it has no effect. > > > If I browse to YouTube, and click on the top video "Coldplay - Birds > (Official video)", it plays. Testing two others, they work fine. > Note that I did not need to install browser-plugin-gnash, so YouTube > is likely detecting what IceWeasel supports OOTB and sending a > suitable video stream. > > > clicked on the update now > > button. it went thru the download of a 32 bit version in a tar.gz, > > supposedly saving it in ~/Downloads. This is the only flash file in > > Downloads: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 5979889 Aug 25 2013 > > flashplayer_11_sa.i386.tar.gz > > I have unpacked it and installed it several times, no effect. > > I think you've boogered your machine. Put in another system drive (or > USB stick), do a plain vanilla install of Wheezy with Xfce, take an > image, and then try IceWeasel. > > > David Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
