Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-19 Thread Ruben van Staveren
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16 Jan 2007, at 20:09, Luigi Rizzo wrote: Additionally, i could not find a way to make the flash plugin work, which is a major annoyance given the amount of flash content that one finds in the services i use daily (some work related too). You

Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-17 Thread Greg Black
On 2007-01-17, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 17 January 2007 at 3:16:44 +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > > Personally I like tabbed browsing a lot, but different strokes for > > different folks. > > It probably depends on your window manager. Tabs are a reasonable > workaround for windo

Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 17 January 2007 at 3:16:44 +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:37:53AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >> I can't agree. It has hijacked some keys used by Wikipedia (alt-S, >> alt-P), and so far I've found it impossible to disable tabs, something >> that was

Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:37:53AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > I can't agree. It has hijacked some keys used by Wikipedia (alt-S, > alt-P), and so far I've found it impossible to disable tabs, something > that was barely possible under 1.5. Tell me how to fix that and I'll > be margina

Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 17 January 2007 at 9:56:51 +1000, Greg Black wrote: > On 2007-01-16, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > >> The 1.5.x version _is_ working for me. It is 2.0.x that >> exhibits severe problems. > > I was surprised and annoyed when I found that the reasonably reliable > 1.5.x version had been replace

Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Greg Black
On 2007-01-16, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > The 1.5.x version _is_ working for me. It is 2.0.x that > exhibits severe problems. I was surprised and annoyed when I found that the reasonably reliable 1.5.x version had been replaced by 2.0, partly because I expected it to be less reliable and partly because

Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:07:39PM +, Pete French wrote: > > If you had any idea how many RFC's IE violates and and how many bugs there > > are in it you would never have made a statement like that. > > I don't think here ever said that IE was *better*, just that it was > necessary for certai

Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 11:41:22PM +0100, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > On 1/16/07, Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So i am just advocating to keep the "stable" version around while > > the "current" one becomes stable enough. > > You can get that port back to a specific date (e.g. with >

Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Vladimir Botka
Hello, linux-firefox-2.0.0.1 works fine for me. Cheers, -vlado vlado.srv# uname -a FreeBSD srv.g1.netng.org 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #1: Fri Nov 3 20:20:33 CET 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usrmnt/src/sys/SRV i386 vlado.srv# ll /var/db/pkg/ | grep firefox drwxr-xr-x 2 root

Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On 1/16/07, Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So i am just advocating to keep the "stable" version around while the "current" one becomes stable enough. You can get that port back to a specific date (e.g. with sysutils/portdowngrade) and reinstall the version which better applies your nee

Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Pete French
as the IE only sites (which are becomming rare). In the end I bundle any such jobs up and do them at home where I keep an x64-XP box for such things. If the most stable flash enabled player on FreeBSD is linux-firefox 1.5 then it would be nice to hav

Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:14:41PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: ... > If linux-firefox isn't working for youhere, I really don't have any The 1.5.x version _is_ working for me. It is 2.0.x that exhibits severe problems. My complaint (to get back on the topic) is that 1.5 disappe

Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
use daily (some work related too). If linux-firefox isn't working for youhere, I really don't have any good suggestions. I would prefer that a stable, working flash plugin for native firefox, which would install with a simple portinstall. A man can dream, can't he? > firefox i

Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Clayton Milos
ssage - From: "Luigi Rizzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Torfinn Ingolfsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 8:09 PM Subject: Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ? On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 07:37:22PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Tue, 1

Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 07:37:22PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:06:45 -0800 > Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Would it be possible to resurrect the linux-firefox 1.5 > > port (under a separate name) so at least people have a choi

Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:06:45 -0800 Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would it be possible to resurrect the linux-firefox 1.5 > port (under a separate name) so at least people have a choice > on which set of bugs they prefer ? What makes native firefox unsuitable for y

can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Luigi Rizzo
[sorry if i don't post this to -ports, but i feel that this is really a -stable issue as it affects one widely used port] I am not sure if i am the only one, but on RELENG_6, linux-firefox 2 is basically unusable (see details below), while linux-firefox 1.5 is at least usable (even though i

Re: Linux-firefox

2006-11-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Minette Pamela wrote: Ppass on Q1 .. what Vladimir said. > Now, maybe is somehow related to the errors I always get when I try > to download files or open files from the linux-firefox browser like : > "/tmp/, could not be saved, because you cannot change the

Re: Linux-firefox

2006-11-10 Thread Vladimir Botka
Install flash plugin from the port. "cd /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin7 & make install". In firefox options change the default download directory to where you can write. HTH,-vlado On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Minette Pamela wrote: hi, i got this problem with linux-firefox.

Re: Linux-firefox

2006-11-10 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 19:31:59 -0800 (PST) Minette Pamela wrote: > hi, i got this problem with linux-firefox. I Installed it before in my > KDE in FreeBSD with no problems and been able to use flash > plugins. Then, I changed to Gnome recently and installed > linux-firefox. Now, whe

Linux-firefox

2006-11-09 Thread Minette Pamela
hi, i got this problem with linux-firefox. I Installed it before in my KDE in FreeBSD with no problems and been able to use flash plugins. Then, I changed to Gnome recently and installed linux-firefox. Now, when I tried to install plugins by clicking on a site with a plugin requirement, I was

Re: a problem about linux-firefox

2006-10-22 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:36:40 +0800 bin wan wrote: > wan# linux-firefox > /usr/local/lib/linux-firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared > libraries: /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: ELF file OS ABI invalid You may consider reading /usr/ports/UPDATING "20060616: AFFECTS user

Re: a problem about linux-firefox

2006-10-22 Thread Iulian M
On Sunday 22 October 2006 11:36, bin wan wrote: > > /usr/local/lib/linux-firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared > > libraries: /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: ELF file OS ABI invalid > > It seems firefox-bin is trying to use the freebsd's native libgtk. You need >

Re: a problem about linux-firefox

2006-10-22 Thread Iulian M
On Sunday 22 October 2006 11:36, bin wan wrote: > /usr/local/lib/linux-firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared > libraries: /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: ELF file OS ABI invalid It seems firefox-bin is trying to use the freebsd's native libgtk. You need to install linux-gtk2

Re: a problem about linux-firefox

2006-10-22 Thread Iulian M
On Sunday 22 October 2006 11:36, bin wan wrote: > I used firefox based on FreeBSD perviously. but it wasn't able to run > plugin of flash player. because flash player has only Linux version. Hi, native firefox works well ( read usable ) with linux-flashplugin and linuxpluginwrapper. I have writ

Re: a problem about linux-firefox

2006-10-22 Thread Vladimir Botka
Hi, there is some problem in your linux-firefox installation. The firefox binary is: vlado.srv# ll /usr/local/bin/linux-firefox -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 57 15 říj 19:15 /usr/local/bin/linux-firefox vlado.srv# brandelf /usr/local/bin/linux-firefox brandelf: file '/usr/local/bin/linux-fi

a problem about linux-firefox

2006-10-22 Thread bin wan
I used firefox based on FreeBSD perviously. but it wasn't able to run plugin of flash player. because flash player has only Linux version. so I installed linux-firefox by ports. Install is no error. However when the linux-firefox actually run , I get wan# linux-firefox /usr/local/lib/

Re: linux-firefox does not run on FreeBSD 6.1

2006-07-22 Thread Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner
On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 12:00 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hiho! :-) > > When trying to start linux-firefox on: > > FreeBSD greatsheep 6.1-RC FreeBSD 6.1-RC #5: Tue May 2 > 20:33:32 CEST > 2006 [EMAIL PROTEC

linux-firefox does not run on FreeBSD 6.1

2006-07-21 Thread UBM
Hiho! :-) When trying to start linux-firefox on: FreeBSD greatsheep 6.1-RC FreeBSD 6.1-RC #5: Tue May 2 20:33:32 CEST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SUBMARINE_SMP i386 it complains about: /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: /usr