Browse-105 does not work for me

Mikus Grinbergs mikus at bga.com
Fri Mar 27 06:12:02 UTC 2009


Tested Browse-105 (as installed in rawhide-xo 20090325) in an 
environment with an AP.  Browse would launch, but as soon as it was 
asked to show an useful webpage, it would disappear.  [The only page 
it managed to display was the main search page at the Google site -- 
but when I clicked within the search results, Browse vanished.  In 
contrast, the Firefox-6 Activity ran fine (in Sugar on 20090325); 
(in Gnome on 20090325, rawhide's firefox executable itself failed 
with the error message: "illegal instruction").]

The first set of activity logs showed that (when using a wireless 
connection) the pages Browse sought to display needed additional 
modules not installed in 20090325.  [For instance, for one webpage 
it needed 'm4' -- Browse-102 explicitly installs 'm4' in 
Browse.activity/bin (but Browse-105 does not)!!  After I used yum to 
fetch and install 'm4', Browse-105 kept failing for lack of other 
modules, such as 'acroread'.

And with some webpages Browse-105 would vanish after starting to 
display the page -- but the activity's log would show only 
'ordinary' lines -- I'm guessing that whatever crashed Browse, did 
not give it a chance to write any error description to its log.

Tried Browse-105 without an AP (with rawhide-xo 20090326).  It 
vanished when I tried to go to about:config (for use at home, I 
needed to tell Browse how my home is connected to the internet).

mikus




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