Re: [Rd] Firefox 3 and HTML Search
Firefox 3.0.7 has been released, and it fixes the bug described below. Duncan Murdoch On 1/12/2009 8:22 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 1/9/2009 11:59 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: I finally upgraded to Firefox 3.05 from 2.x, and now I can reproduce a bug a colleague has been complaining about but which I hadn't been able to reproduce before. In Windows, set Firefox as the default browser. Then in Rgui (seems to affect all versions up to R-devel), use the menu to open HTML Help, and choose Search Engine and Keywords. Enter a keyword (e.g. plot), and click on Search. Things are a lot slower than they used to be with Firefox 2, but eventually I get a result, starting out Search Results The search string was plot base-defunct Defunct Functions in Base Package expression Unevaluated Expressions However, the current URL is not the same as it was before: it is now listed as file:///RHOME/doc/html/index.html so the links don't work: they are entered as ../../../library/base/html/base-defunct.html, etc. in the source, and the expect the current directory to be file:///RHOME/doc/html/search/ If I set Internet Explorer as my default browser (yuck), things are fine, so this is a Firefox 3 bug, or a new Java bug, or an R bug that was masked before. Any suggestions of workarounds? As Brian and Marc pointed out, this is a Firefox 3.0 bug. As it turns out, it was repaired in November, but not approved for release in 3.0.5 or 3.0.6 (due this month??). I've been told it will make it into 3.0.7. For more on this, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445004 Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] Firefox 3 and HTML Search
On 1/9/2009 11:59 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: I finally upgraded to Firefox 3.05 from 2.x, and now I can reproduce a bug a colleague has been complaining about but which I hadn't been able to reproduce before. In Windows, set Firefox as the default browser. Then in Rgui (seems to affect all versions up to R-devel), use the menu to open HTML Help, and choose Search Engine and Keywords. Enter a keyword (e.g. plot), and click on Search. Things are a lot slower than they used to be with Firefox 2, but eventually I get a result, starting out Search Results The search string was plot base-defunct Defunct Functions in Base Package expression Unevaluated Expressions However, the current URL is not the same as it was before: it is now listed as file:///RHOME/doc/html/index.html so the links don't work: they are entered as ../../../library/base/html/base-defunct.html, etc. in the source, and the expect the current directory to be file:///RHOME/doc/html/search/ If I set Internet Explorer as my default browser (yuck), things are fine, so this is a Firefox 3 bug, or a new Java bug, or an R bug that was masked before. Any suggestions of workarounds? As Brian and Marc pointed out, this is a Firefox 3.0 bug. As it turns out, it was repaired in November, but not approved for release in 3.0.5 or 3.0.6 (due this month??). I've been told it will make it into 3.0.7. For more on this, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445004 Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] Firefox 3 and HTML Search
Hmm, from NEWS o help.search() has new argument 'searchEngine' to go directly to the search form: this is needed by users of Firefox 3 to workaround a bug in interpreting the search results pages. and CHANGES (2.7.2) o Rgui has a new menu item 'Html search page' on the Help menu, which goes directly to the HTML search form. This is needed by users of Firefox 3, which generates incorrect links in search results when the page is accessed via the 'Html help' menu item (or via help.start()). It is a Firefox bug, documented in the R-admin manual. On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Duncan Murdoch wrote: I finally upgraded to Firefox 3.05 from 2.x, and now I can reproduce a bug a colleague has been complaining about but which I hadn't been able to reproduce before. In Windows, set Firefox as the default browser. Then in Rgui (seems to affect all versions up to R-devel), use the menu to open HTML Help, and choose Search Engine and Keywords. Enter a keyword (e.g. plot), and click on Search. Things are a lot slower than they used to be with Firefox 2, but eventually I get a result, starting out Search Results The search string was plot base-defunct Defunct Functions in Base Package expression Unevaluated Expressions However, the current URL is not the same as it was before: it is now listed as file:///RHOME/doc/html/index.html so the links don't work: they are entered as ../../../library/base/html/base-defunct.html, etc. in the source, and the expect the current directory to be file:///RHOME/doc/html/search/ If I set Internet Explorer as my default browser (yuck), things are fine, so this is a Firefox 3 bug, or a new Java bug, or an R bug that was masked before. Any suggestions of workarounds? Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UKFax: +44 1865 272595 __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
