Re: firefox unuseable?

On 1 Jul 2005 ccjpb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (JP. Baker) wrote:

> In article <834397804d.pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Dr Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>On 25 Jun 2005 druck <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Mine crashes occationally, mostly on text entry it seems. Its isn't
>>> any worse than certain other browsers on RISC OS though, none of
>>> whose stability is absolute.

>>Not so here; I did once manage to order something with Firefox (OS
>>5.08 at the time), but now (5.08 and then 5.09) I invariably find it
>>disappears with text entry. This doesn't happen with O2, NetSurf or
>>Webster, albeit that these all have other problems.
>
> OK. I have done some googling as I was getting this repeatedly as well.
> It looks as it may be a known Unix port error.

[snip instructions]

Fantastic, that's done the trick nicely; the directory in UnixHome was
called something else, but was easily identified. I now have a fully
functional Firefox, and I can't thank you enough. I won't have to go
to the Dark Side nearly so often now.

However, this raises some questions:

1) What is this file supposed to do? Its contents don't make any sense
to me, but I expected that.

2) Will its absence means that FF will run into other problems later?

3) Why have only a few people had this problem with it?

4) Will it affect other apps which use UnixHome? (Presumably not, is
it's in a Firefox directory.)

5) Does Peter N know about this? I think he reads this group.

6) Should something about this be posted on the unixpp mailing list?
I'm wary of posting there because of the risk of offending powerful
people.

Very many thanks again,

With best wishes,

Peter.


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