M 0.9.8 Net installer fails -- Linux
Hi, The Net installer fails soon after it starts downloading the *xpi files. It downloads approx. 750KB and the installation process dies with core dump (Linux). A message flashes for a moment, saying something like Missing files or so. The Full installer worked OK. -- Minko
bug or feature? (Moz. on Linux/X)
Hi, I just noticed something, both 0.9.7 and the latest nightly. Clicking the middle mouse button *not* on a hyperlink, but simply somewhere in a page, causes na attempt to open an url with the current X clipboard selection. Say, the last X selection you did was in an xterm (kterm in my case), you selected the network.pdf string. Afterwards, in Mozilla, you try to middle-button-click a hyperlink, in order to open it in a new window, but you miss the the hyperlink and middle-button-click somewhere next to it. Then you get a message www.network.pdf could not be found. Please check the name and try again :)) That's how I discovered it. Seems like a feature, but can be confusing for someone that is not aware of it. If the clipboard content is big -- e.g. the above paragraph -- mozilla would still try to open an url with this name, and then the error message is very confusing. It basically quotes the whole text, followed by the Please check the name and try again thing, which the user will most likely miss. Worse, if the selection is accidentally a valid url, or can be expanded to one with .com at the end, one goes to a some seemingly random page and has no clue how he/she got there. Just some thoughts. Regards, Minko Markov
Re: bug or feature? (Moz. on Linux/X)
Travis Crump [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is a 'feature'. If you are like me and hate this 'feature', it can be disabled with user_pref(middlemouse.contentLoadURL, false); in user.js/prefs.js. Thanks! -- MM
Re: 0.9.7: fast, but seems buggy
Jonas Jørgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Minko Markov wrote: How can one check whether this security manager is ... http://gemal.dk/browserspy/psm.html -- /Jonas VariableSetting == Version 2.2 Algorithms supportedPersonal Security Manager not loaded or object not supported! Algorithms Info Personal Security Manager not loaded or object not supported! More info about Personal Security Manager at Netscape at Mozilla What does that mean, no ssl connections? I doubt it, since http://gemal.dk/browserspy/security.html says Encryption Strength -- Strong. Hmmm.. -- Minko
Re: 0.9.7: fast, but seems buggy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David W. Fenton) writes: Mozilla 0.9.3 had worked fine, because, apparently, I'd installed the security manager. When I re-installed and included the security manager, it then worked. It is not so apparent to me that this is the reason. Maybe, maybe not, but the lack of error message like you must have the security manager installed before proceeding suggests the reason is something else, most likely a bug. I quoted an https URL that works with 0.9.7 == most likely, 0.9.7 can work with encrypted connection. How can one check whether this security manager is installed? I mean, it is pointless arguing about that here, if one can check that in a second. -- MM
0.9.7: fast, but seems buggy
Hi, Just upgraded to 0.9.7 from 0.9.5. My impression is that 0.9.7 is faster (Linux). Several points about it: After the install, it was not with the modern skin, but the classical. I have always used the modern, and the previous upgrades correctly detected that. Corrected the skin with the preferences later. The Preferences dialog box has an annoying bug. When I start opening the fields (like Navigator, Advanced), no scrollbar shows, even when the height of the items is more than the height of the area of the window. To get a scrollbar, I have to close one of the open fields. The first time I started the browser, started typing an URL, but nothing was actually input in the URL input field. After resizing the window or something like that, it was possible to type URLs. Try www.britishairways.com, it offers login with ID and password. With 0.9.5, it worked fine. 0.9.7 seems unable to log me in: after typing the ID and the pass, I can't proceed. Neither Return nor clicking the small arrow button work. Seems like a Javascript issue? It is possible to test that with empty pass and ID, 0.9.5 proceeds in that case (to a message wrong password) There is another bug with www.specialized.com which I just reported. Right now bugzilla.mozilla.org seems down :( , otherwise I would have reported the british airways one as well. Anyone feeling that 0.9.7 is buggy? I will keep both 0.9.5 and 0.9.7 trees for the moment. Regards, Minko
Is the flash plug-in part of mozilla?
Hi all, Mozilla 2001110112 (latest build), Linux, with flash plug-in Shockwave Flash 5.0 r47. The flash animation is mostly all right. However, this site: http://www.lordoftherings.net/ freezes the browser. In order to freeze the browser, load the page and click on any item, say the circles in the middle. Even before clicking anything there, the CPU utilization as shown by top is 90%, but the navigation still works. After clicking anything, navigation is impossible and only kill -9 helps, although the animation seems alive and the music goes on. I am tempted to do a bug report, but I am not sure whether it is appropriate. Is the plug-in part of mozilla? Probably not, I got it from the home page of flash (whatever it was, I forgot). However, the flash capabilities are important, more and more sites use flash animation. I have given up completely on Java, there too many sites on which Java + Javascript hang mozilla. I hope the the flash problems are easier and solvable... Any advise on flash in mozilla? Thanks, Minko Markov
Re: Problems with Mozilla 0.9.2
Alejandro Alvarez Melcon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having a lot of problems with Mozilla 0.9.2; a bit surprised though, since 0.9.1 worked just fine. Apparently the plugins do not work even if they are copied into the plugins directory (for instance flash player does not work in 0.9.2). Hi, AFAIK, the plugin for Netscape 4* and Mozilla * is the same. That's what I have in mozilla's plugin directory: ShockwaveFlash.class - /usr/local/pack/netscape/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class libflashplayer.so - /usr/local/pack/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so Two symlinks to the plugin files of Netscape, that's all. Works OK for mozilla. Are you sure you have the lates version of the plugin? The version here is Macromedia Flash Player 5 Netscape Plug-in for Linux 15 February 2001 The file sizes are 2363 Feb 15 19:39 ShockwaveFlash.class 947992 Feb 15 19:39 libflashplayer.so Good luck, Minko
mozilla 0.9.2 chokes on this file
Hi, In a certain LUG I came across an indication of a possible bug in Mozilla 0.9.2 Someone was complaining his mozilla died when opening this trivial html file: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//IETF//DTD HTML//EN HTML HEAD META HTTP-EQUIV=Content-Type CONTENT=text/html; charset=x-user-defined TITLEtesting mozilla-092/TITLE /HEAD BODY BGCOLOR=#FF TEXT=#00 PPPRE -- A HREF=http://www.ldffdfdfdfdfa.net/;http://www.dfdbrttrt.net//A Mozilla-0.9.2 is dying - blah.!? /PRE P HR P /BODY /HTML My mozilla does not crash on it, but takes about 15-20sec to load it! Netscape 4.77 loads it in an instant, as one might expect. The guy claimed that mozilla 0.9.1 has no problems opening it either. Before we report a bug, can someone more experienced in html comment on that? I found that the problem is caused by the META-field. When either one of HTTP-EQUIV=... or CONTENT=... is removed, the file opens OK. Also, when charset is, say, iso-8859-1 Thanks a lot, Minko Markov
Re: Mozilla and RealPlayer 8
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (HeadTechnican @ Mathco.com) writes: I have a question. I run slackware 7.1 and i have the following problem. Has anyone gotten RealPlayer 8 to work with the latest Mozilla release? yes :) I have Mozilla installed under /usr/local/Mozilla and RealPlayer 8 installed under /usr/local/Realplayer8. I have entered the mimetypes correctly as specified for Netscape 6 and copied the plugins to /use/local/Mozilla/plugins. What happens is when i click on a link it only brings up a Save To Disk Window even if I don't have the save to disk box checked. The about:plugins URL tells you which plugins are available to your mozilla at the moment. Most likely, you don't have RealPlayer available in mozilla. I had a similar problem. My RealPlayer is an rpm. The plugin for netscape/Mozilla is rpnp.so, and there is another file, raclass.zip, I dunno its function. In order netscape/ mozilla to see the plug-in, these files have to be in some plugins directory, where netscape/mozilla looks for plug-ins at start. Well, the RealPlayer rpm installs both rpnp.so and raclass.zip in two directories, /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/ and /usr/local/netscape/plugins/. My netscape and mozilla are elsewhere, so they could not see the plug-ins. I simply made symlinks to the plugins. In your case, that will be (assuming rpnp.so and raclass.zip are in /usr/lib/netscape/plugins): cd /usr/local/Mozilla/package/plugins (or wherever the plugins directory is) ln -s /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/rpnp.sp rpnp.so ln -s /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/raclass.zip raclass.zip and restart mozilla. With about:plugins you should see the real plugin activated. If you have RealPlayer as an rpm, to see whether indeed rpnp.so and raclass.zip are in /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/, do rpm -ql RealPlayer | grep plugins Otherwise, find / -name rpnp.so -print 2 /dev/null Good luck, Minko
Re: bug in M 0.7, or bad page design?
Micah Harwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... http://www.dir.bg/ and http://www-us.capital.bg/ The cyrillic letters are over-large in M 0.7, and the spacing is wrong. Netscape 4.7* shows them correctly. By "over-large", do you mean the letters are really big, or only slightly larger? OK, you can say "slightly" larger, not 24pt or anything, :) but they still look wrong. The huge spaces between them are much more annoying, however. For example, at http://www-us.capital.bg , at the very top line, there is an English word, "Advertising", which looks good. Compared to the cyrillic text around, I would say the difference is 3 or 4 pts in height. Plus, the space between two cyrillic letters is huge, it is enough to fit another letter in. The strange thing is that one or two screens down (on a 1024x768 screen, Mozilla maximized), the cyrillic text (hyperlinks to articles) looks OK. That's how everything on the page should look like. I don't know why this is, but I ran into this same issue when designing my site. Netscape 4.x displays text smaller I guess. Note that IE also renders the text in the larger size. It is true that Netscape displays some pages in a barely readable way. But in this case there is something wrong, either the page design or Mozilla. I mean, the "bad" characters even overlap a little the borders of the regions around. Can't believe that it is so under IE. And the spacing between the letters... When I first looked at the page, it appeared normal. Then we are seeing different things. BTW, I just tried the option "Always use my font settings...", and now the page looks correct! But this is not a good solution, the page should look good with dynamic fonts as well. Regards, Minko Markov
bug in M 0.7, or bad page design?
Hi, The pages I have in mind are in Bulgarian, but I think that it will be clear what I mean even if you don't know the language. http://www.dir.bg/ and http://www-us.capital.bg/ The cyrillic letters are over-large in M 0.7, and the spacing is wrong. Netscape 4.7* shows them correctly. I am really hesitant to call it a bug and to report it. Maybe, the pages break some standards? Since my knowlegde of WWW standards is minimal, I ask someone more knowledgable for an opinion: is it a fault of Mozilla, or the Web designers? I asked here the same question about M 0.6 (that was before 0.7). Someone told me that the nightly builds - as opposed to 0.6 - don't have the problem. I did not report a bug, therefore. Now I really wonder, if some builds between 0.6 and 0.7 were OK, how come the problem resurrects? Thanks a lot for any suggestion. That issue aside, M 0.7 is great. Thanks! -- Minko Markov Victoria, BC, Canada
