OK. The issue is with the embedding plugins and OS 10.6, as my issue was. There is no workaround that I know of. The author of the plugin is working on a revision, but it is not clear when that will be available and if it will be useful for current versions of firefox. The beta versions of Firefox 4 have a place marker where the plugin directory ought to be, and no plugins. I do not know if they plan to implement plugins and what effect that will have down the road. I am about to edit my index page to tell Mac users to avoid firefox for my tutorials for the time being.
I believe the browser warning for Firefox 4 is from Jmol. Phil Bays On Aug 16, 2010, at 5:37 PM, Alexander Rose wrote: > Hi, > > Am 16.08.2010 um 17:48 schrieb Philip Bays: > >> This seems to be another example of Mac Firefox (and I suspect Camino and >> SeaMonkey) behaving differently. I would be interested in the results of >> the following three experiments: >> >> 1. What happens if you use the signed rather than the unsigned applet? >> > > still slow: http://weirdbyte.de/jmol-test/html/slow_callbacks_signed.html > >> 2. What happens if you remove the javaembedding plugin files >> (Firefox>contents>MacOS>Plugins)? There are two: JavaEmbeddingPlugin and >> MRJplugin. Don't throw them away, since once removed manipulating the >> structure in the applet will be disabled. But does it affect the callback >> speed. >> > > both removed: fast, but callbacks seem to be ignored, no messages > JavaEmbeddingPlugin removed: Error _jmolSetCodebase is not defined > MRJplugin removed: 1st load opens a program called Java Applet Host, fast, > but callbacks seem to be ignored, 2nd & subsequent loads (with Java Applet > Host program open), fast callbacks with messages > > >> 3. What happens if you use Firefox 4.0b3 to open the page? >> > > first, there is a warning the browser would not be fully compatible with > jmol, but nevermind, because... > ... the slow callbacks are gone :-) > > Alex > >> >> Phil Bays >> >> >> >> On Aug 16, 2010, at 9:50 AM, Alexander Rose wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> does someone else experience painfully slow callbacks in firefox on mac osx? >>> >>> http://weirdbyte.de/jmol-test/html/slow_callbacks.html >>> >>> I did some measurements. The numbers do very, but there is always a huge >>> difference between callbacks registered and not. >>> >>> Best >>> Alexander >>> >>> >>> The numbers: >>> >>> * Firefox 2.6.8 on Mac OSX 10.6.4: >>> >>> === NO CALLBACKS REGISTERED === >>> START load pdb: 3:10:09.660 >>> END load pdb: 3:10:10.155 >>> DURATION [495 ms]load pdb >>> START load append pdb: 3:10:10.158 >>> END load append pdb: 3:10:10.510 >>> DURATION [352 ms]load append pdb >>> >>> === CALLBACKS REGISTERED === >>> START load pdb: 3:10:10.652 >>> jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 >>> http://weirdbyte.de/jmol-test/data/1u19.pdb 1u19.pdb 1U19 null 3 1.1 >>> jmol_load_struct_callback: 3:10:19.638 >>> jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 0 1 1 1000001 1000001 0 1 1 >>> jmol_anim_frame_callback: 3:10:19.705 >>> jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 >>> jmol_anim_frame_callback: 3:10:19.763 >>> jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 0 1 1 1000001 2000001 0 1 1 >>> jmol_anim_frame_callback: 3:10:19.821 >>> END load pdb: 3:10:19.857 >>> DURATION [9205 ms]load pdb >>> START load append pdb: 3:10:19.862 >>> jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 1 2 1 1000001 2000001 0 1 1 >>> jmol_anim_frame_callback: 3:10:24.416 >>> jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 >>> http://weirdbyte.de/jmol-test/data/1u19.pdb 1u19.pdb 1U19 (modified) null 3 >>> 1.1 >>> jmol_load_struct_callback: 3:10:24.420 >>> END load append pdb: 3:10:24.423 >>> DURATION [4561 ms]load append pdb >>> >>> >>> >>> * Safari 5.0.1 on Mac OSX 10.6.4: >>> >>> === NO CALLBACKS REGISTERED === >>> START load pdb: 3:45:35.845 >>> END load pdb: 3:45:36.496 >>> DURATION [651 ms]load pdb >>> START load append pdb: 3:45:36.497 >>> END load append pdb: 3:45:36.734 >>> DURATION [237 ms]load append pdb >>> >>> === CALLBACKS REGISTERED === >>> START load pdb: 3:45:36.782 >>> jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 0 1 1 1000001 2000001 0 1 1 >>> jmol_anim_frame_callback: 3:45:36.801 >>> jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 >>> jmol_anim_frame_callback: 3:45:36.935 >>> jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 0 1 1 1000001 1000001 0 1 1 >>> jmol_anim_frame_callback: 3:45:36.989 >>> jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 >>> http://weirdbyte.de/jmol-test/data/1u19.pdb 1u19.pdb 1U19 3 1.1 1.1 >>> jmol_load_struct_callback: 3:45:37.000 >>> END load pdb: 3:45:37.161 >>> DURATION [379 ms]load pdb >>> START load append pdb: 3:45:37.161 >>> jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 >>> http://weirdbyte.de/jmol-test/data/1u19.pdb 1u19.pdb 1U19 (modified) 3 1.1 >>> 2.1 >>> jmol_load_struct_callback: 3:45:37.230 >>> jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 1 2 1 1000001 2000001 0 1 1 >>> jmol_anim_frame_callback: 3:45:37.360 >>> END load append pdb: 3:45:37.408 >>> DURATION [247 ms]load append pdb >>> jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 0 1 1 1000001 2000001 0 1 1 >>> jmol_anim_frame_callback: 3:45:37.430 >>> jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 -1 0 0 1000001 2000001 0 1 1 >>> jmol_anim_frame_callback: 3:45:37.437 >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> This SF.net email is sponsored by >>> >>> Make an app they can't live without >>> Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Jmol-users mailing list >>> Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users >> >> J. 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