Problem with Firefox

[Viviane Pons]

Dear all,

I connected on SMC with firefox and noticed that the Jupyter notebook are not supported anymore. What is this due to? Is this likely to be resolved?

This might cause a problem for my class as I am not sure of what are the browsers currently installed by default on the machines. And anyway, it seems to be that it is quite a big problem as firefox is a widely used browser!

Best

Viviane

[William Stein]

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Viviane Pons <vivia...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all,

I connected on SMC with firefox and noticed that the Jupyter notebook are not supported anymore. What is this due to?

Here are the (currently three) open Firefox issues with SMC:

   https://github.com/sagemathinc/smc/labels/A-firefox

Not only is Firefox + Jupyter disabled in SMC (due to massive corruption it will cause to Jupyter notebooks), but in fact, any time you visit SMC using Firefox for any purpose, there is a big message in the upper right suggesting to using any other browser instead of Firefox.  There are massive performance issues due to (known reported with test cases for over a year) issues with the flex layout implementation in Firefox.

 

Is this likely to be resolved?

Yes, but I can't tell you when.

 

This might cause a problem for my class as I am not sure of what are the browsers currently installed by default on the machines. And anyway, it seems to be that it is quite a big problem as firefox is a widely used browser!

During the month of October, before we had an explicitly message saying not to use Firefox, almost 15% of visitors to the SMC website used Firefox. 

 -- William

 

Best

Viviane

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[Viviane Pons]

Yes I've see the message. Good luck on fixing the issue.

Best

Vivane

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[William Stein]

When does your class start?

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[William Stein]

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Viviane Pons <vivia...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes I've see the message. Good luck on fixing the issue.

Now fixed -- you can safely use Jupyter + Firefox again with SMC and sync.

https://github.com/sagemathinc/smc/issues/1262

>
>
> Best
>
> Vivane
>
> 2016-12-04 22:54 GMT+01:00 William Stein <wst...@sagemath.com>:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Viviane Pons <vivia...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I connected on SMC with firefox and noticed that the Jupyter notebook are not supported anymore. What is this due to?
>>
>>
>> Here are the (currently three) open Firefox issues with SMC:
>>
>> https://github.com/sagemathinc/smc/labels/A-firefox
>>
>> Not only is Firefox + Jupyter disabled in SMC (due to massive corruption it will cause to Jupyter notebooks), but in fact, any time you visit SMC using Firefox for any purpose, there is a big message in the upper right suggesting to using any other browser instead of Firefox. There are massive performance issues due to (known reported with test cases for over a year) issues with the flex layout implementation in Firefox.
>>
>>>
>>> Is this likely to be resolved?
>>
>>
>> Yes, but I can't tell you when.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This might cause a problem for my class as I am not sure of what are the browsers currently installed by default on the machines. And anyway, it seems to be that it is quite a big problem as firefox is a widely used browser!
>>
>>
>> During the month of October, before we had an explicitly message saying not to use Firefox, almost 15% of visitors to the SMC website used Firefox.
>>
>> -- William
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best
>>>

>>> Viviane
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Best Regards,
>> William Stein
>>
>> CEO, SageMath, Inc.
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[William Stein]

We just spent months rewriting Jupyter from scratch for SMC and the
rewrite is now live! See

http://blog.sagemath.com/jupyter/2017/05/05/jupyter-rewrite-for-smc.html

This is a complete rewrite meant to address all Firefox sync issues, etc.

At the same time, it's compatible (both file format and look and feel)
with the classical Jupyter notebook.

-- William