firefox3 ignores Enter key when run by user
thef...@gmail.com
box, so I used that as an excuse do a clean install of 7.0. Everything
went fine. firefox3 comiled and runs great when started by root. But
If a user starts it it loads, takes a URL in the address bar but does
nothing when I hit Enter. The keyboard works perfectly (so far) with
every other task or application I try, although I still have a lot of
apps to compile so there might be another oddity out there. Has anyone
else seen this?
thanks,
tf
Warren Block
Maybe:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=445596+0+current/freebsd-ports
Both main and numeric keypad Enter work here:
firefox-3.0_2,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
FreeBSD speedy.wonkity.com 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Mon Jun 23 09:20:32 MDT 2008
ro...@speedy.wonkity.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SPEEDY i386
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Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota * USA
thef...@gmail.com
> thefro...@gmail.com <thefro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > For whatever reason, I couldn't seem to compile firefox3 on my 6.3
> > box, so I used that as an excuse do a clean install of 7.0. Everything
> > went fine. firefox3 comiled and runs great when started by root. But
> > If a user starts it it loads, takes a URL in the address bar but does
> > nothing when I hit Enter. The keyboard works perfectly (so far) with
> > every other task or application I try, although I still have a lot of
> > apps to compile so there might be another oddity out there. Has anyone
> > else seen this?
>
> Maybe:
>
>
> Both main and numeric keypad Enter work here:
>
> firefox-3.0_2,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
>
> FreeBSD speedy.wonkity.com 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Mon Jun 23 09:20:32 MDT 2008
>
> --
> Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota * USA
Thanks for the link, on my wife's W2k/firefox3 machine it displays a
mostly empty page. But I'll poke around. As an aside, my firefox3
doesn't have the 'big slider' backwards button; it looks like some
boring default 2.0.0.14 theme. Perhaps I'm missing some widgets or
gnome-ish thing. 7.0 certainly seems faster to my eyes but the whole
thing is rather underwhelming; my fault for thinking 7 would fold the
laundry, but then I go where the ports are pushing and, like 4.x, I
imagine support for the 6.x desktop will fade eventually. If it didn't
I'd still be running 4.11. I have half a gmirror mirror with 6.3 out
there and the itch to fall back is pretty strong but I'll keep
plugging away at this for now. Really, everything except firefox3 has
been a slam dunk. Nice work by the FBSD folks.
thanks again,
tf
Warren Block
> On Jul 12, 3:01 pm, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote:
>> thefro...@gmail.com <thefro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > If a user starts it it loads, takes a URL in the address bar but does
>> > nothing when I hit Enter. The keyboard works perfectly (so far) with
>> > every other task or application I try, although I still have a lot of
>> > apps to compile so there might be another oddity out there. Has anyone
>> > else seen this?
>>
>> Maybe:
>>
>> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=445596+0+current/freebsd...
>>
> mostly empty page. But I'll poke around. As an aside, my firefox3
> doesn't have the 'big slider' backwards button; it looks like some
> boring default 2.0.0.14 theme. Perhaps I'm missing some widgets or
> gnome-ish thing.
The current release of Firefox 3 looks like beta quality here. The
image bug is very evident:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414928
> 7.0 certainly seems faster to my eyes but the whole thing is rather
> underwhelming; my fault for thinking 7 would fold the laundry,
7.0 doesn't seem any faster to me. I see a lot more obvious contention
when doing background compiles with ULE, delayed screen updates and
such. Maybe that would be different if I had a multicore processor.
thef...@gmail.com
> > For whatever reason, I couldn't seem to compile firefox3 on my 6.3
> > box, so I used that as an excuse do a clean install of 7.0. Everything
> > went fine. firefox3 comiled and runs great when started by root. But
> > If a user starts it it loads, takes a URL in the address bar but does
> > nothing when I hit Enter. The keyboard works perfectly (so far) with
> > every other task or application I try, although I still have a lot of
> > apps to compile so there might be another oddity out there. Has anyone
> > else seen this?
>
> Maybe:
>
>
> Both main and numeric keypad Enter work here:
>
> firefox-3.0_2,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
>
> FreeBSD speedy.wonkity.com 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Mon Jun 23 09:20:32 MDT 2008
>
> --
> Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota * USA
Warren, et al
Just this morning I was compiling firefox-2.0.0.16 on 7.0 and it
failed with some indecipherable (to me) error message. In some kind of
epiphany I recalled that Open Office 2.x + will also fail because, for
space issues, I had nfs mounted a filesystem and linked to ports from
there, and in doing so ran in to some type of 255 character limit on
path names in OO's compile scripts. I have 18GB disks on my machine so
I'm in a bit of a pickle there, but I do have space enough to compile
firefox. I'm guessing firefox3 compiled (and finished) but failed at
some widget code that didn't cause the entire compile to throw and
error. So I created a local ports directory, csup-ed it and am
compiling firefox3 now. I'm at work but I bet it's going to be fine,
and I have an excuse now to buy some bigger SCSIs...
thanks,
tf
thef...@gmail.com
> I'm at work but I bet it's going to be fine,
>
> thanks,
>
> tf
For the record, no, it wasn't fine. But 2.0.0.16 is snappy and I don't
see the memory problems people say plague 2.x so now I don't really
care; I'm going back to getting work done.
tf
dfeu...@mindspring.com
I am running 64-bit AMD FreeBSD 7.0. I have both Firefox 2 and 3 installed
and I am seeing several i/o problems, especially with 3. At times both the
keyboard and the mouse simply stop working. Restarting Firefox takes care
of the problem. Vim also now ocasionally exhibits keyboard catatonia.
The Firefox 2 program seems to have spontaneously disappeared (which firefox
no longer displays a filename).