Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:12:32 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reporting problems with Firefox (?) Message-ID: <1182319952.60352.32.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <41960.1182280454@monkeys.com> References: <41960.1182280454@monkeys.com>
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--=-JIudU1lvylNRDjWoV7ye Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 12:14 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >=20 > Is this address (gnome@FreeBSD.org) the proper place to send bug/problem > reports regarding Firefox? If not, could you please direct me to the > Right Place to do this? >=20 > Problem(s) summary: >=20 > I've just upgraded my main work/desktop system from (ancient) FreeBSD 4.1= 1 > to 6.2-RELEASE, and thus, switched from some ancient rev of Mozilla to > Firefox, and I'm having some really serious problems with it. I hope you rebuilt all of your ports when you did this. >=20 > In particular, it locks up (and pegs CPU usage to 100%) each time I eithe= r > (a) try to download a file, to disk, from any web site or (b) try to > switch back and forth a few times between the cute icons at the top of > the little pop-up window that comes up when one tries to adjust "Preferen= ces". I don't see this here. You should follow the steps listed at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/bugging.html to get a backtrace from the running process when it pegs the CPU. >=20 > (Also, with Mozilla, I found that I could use Cntl-K to delete the part o= f > any text line to the right of the current cursor position, i.e. within an= y > text entry area on any wab page. But now that seems to no longer work. > Is that a X11 issue? Or is it a Fixefox issue?) This is a GTK+ issue. See http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q25 . >=20 > Last question: Is Firefox being built ``native'' for FreeBSD? Or is it > being built for Linux and then run under the compatability mode? If the > former, then where may I download the latest and greatest FreeBSD-compati= ble > FireFox sources? (The problems above are sufficiently annoying to me tha= t > I might actually take a whack and building and debugging Fixefox myself.) It depends on the port you installed. www/firefox is a native FreeBSD application. The www/linux-firefox port is the Linux binary. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-JIudU1lvylNRDjWoV7ye Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGeMVOb2iPiv4Uz4cRAhVtAKCQNnCSuwfYR1DT4jFqjowQRYKucwCbBlaU VoH+t6iZ+mzzmKrooKx+mOY= =nxrG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-JIudU1lvylNRDjWoV7ye--
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