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 I was surprised and annoyed when I found that the reasonably reliable 1.5.x version had been replaced by 2.0, partly because I expected it to be less reliable and partly because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 wheel

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
> 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 certain sites (which is undeniably true) and that if all you have available i

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 disappeared from the

Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:09:35 -0800 Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the many times i tried (up to a few months ago and with 1.0.5 or > 1.0.7) it crashed randomly while browsing, within a few hours of use, > and this was enough for me to give up. First: I find that running native firefox _

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 choice > > on which set of bugs

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 you? -- Regards, Torfi

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 it has s