From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 20 06:12:38 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EB6116A400 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:12:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (creme-brulee.marcuscom.com [24.172.16.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F321213C48C for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:12:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:2464::4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:2464::4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l5K6DR5s084252; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:13:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" In-Reply-To: <41960.1182280454@monkeys.com> References: <41960.1182280454@monkeys.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-JIudU1lvylNRDjWoV7ye" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:12:32 -0400 Message-Id: <1182319952.60352.32.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS autolearn=no version=3.2.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.0 (2007-05-01) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reporting problems with Firefox (?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:12:38 -0000 --=-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--