[FX] PowerBook: 2005-07-16 [Trunk/OS X] (G4, O3, Altivec)
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Wow, glad it wasn't just me. Only happens sometimes as well for me. I just close Firefox (good thing I have SessionSaver installed!) and run Firefox again. Fixes it, if only for a short period.
Also, is your FF build best only for G4? What about the G5 processor? Is there anything for that, or is your build still the 'best' (in your opinion...) for that as well? Or is the normal Firefox build best for G5? I'm asking because I'm using a Mac Mini now, so your build is good for it since it is G4, but I'm exchanging for a G5 iMac soon
Thanks!
Also, is your FF build best only for G4? What about the G5 processor? Is there anything for that, or is your build still the 'best' (in your opinion...) for that as well? Or is the normal Firefox build best for G5? I'm asking because I'm using a Mac Mini now, so your build is good for it since it is G4, but I'm exchanging for a G5 iMac soon
Thanks!
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drumsticks build G5 optimized Firefox and Thunderbird builds.
My G4 build should run on a G5, but you will not get the full potential of the G5 processor. While a G5 build dont run on a G4 at all.
I have a rev. b 15" PowerBook (1.5GHz, 1GB ram +++). It will do until I get my hands on a PowerBook G5, or an Intel powered PowerBook.
My G4 build should run on a G5, but you will not get the full potential of the G5 processor. While a G5 build dont run on a G4 at all.
I have a rev. b 15" PowerBook (1.5GHz, 1GB ram +++). It will do until I get my hands on a PowerBook G5, or an Intel powered PowerBook.
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Gary W wrote:We really need to get more people to vote on bug 289973 so that it gets more attention Are we allowed to post a thread asking for people to vote on it? I suppose not? Too bad
No, bumping a bug report like that would be really bad!
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.htmlBugzilla Etiquette
1. No pointless comments. Unless you have something constructive and helpful to say, do not add a comment to a bug.
So since neither of us have the needed coding skill, we can just place our vote and wait.
This bug should get some attention as well:
298677 - Vertical scrollbar draws over toolbar and tabs when location or search bar has focus during scrolling.
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ref copy & paste.
That is a problem that I've experienced occasionaly for a long time. Maybe it has been a bit more frequent the past few days (bug 282940 ??). But as powerbook said, it is very random, and I never could make sense out of it. Maybe it is the weather....
How do you guys experience this? When using the keyboard shortcuts? Or when using the menu (Edit > Copy)? (or right-click on selected text and select Copy?).
On my side - and as said, this happens very randomly, which makes it difficult to track - it is mostly the keyboard shortcut that doesn't do anything, the keyboard event is not passed. Using the menu item always seem to work. And once I've used the menu item once, the keyboard shortcut works rather well.
(and in the 20050702 build, it works rather well, on my side).
That is a problem that I've experienced occasionaly for a long time. Maybe it has been a bit more frequent the past few days (bug 282940 ??). But as powerbook said, it is very random, and I never could make sense out of it. Maybe it is the weather....
How do you guys experience this? When using the keyboard shortcuts? Or when using the menu (Edit > Copy)? (or right-click on selected text and select Copy?).
On my side - and as said, this happens very randomly, which makes it difficult to track - it is mostly the keyboard shortcut that doesn't do anything, the keyboard event is not passed. Using the menu item always seem to work. And once I've used the menu item once, the keyboard shortcut works rather well.
(and in the 20050702 build, it works rather well, on my side).
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I have had problems with missing/unresponsive menus the last 4-5 days or so.
Just about the time CFRunLoop was turned on by default (bug # 298293). The problem is that its pattern when it happends, it just strikes randomly.
I usually notice it when copy and paste dont work anymore. Select some text and click cmd-c and nothing happends. The Edit - Copy menu are greyed out as well.
At the same time it blocks all context menus, ctrl-click and "Open Link in New tab" do nothing...
Its a major bug, but hard to report since there are no pattern to reproduce it.
Yes, it seems to "heal" itself on my side as well. Just switch between tabs some times and suddenly it works again. Strange!
I have seen it 2 or 3 times with my 20050702 build
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Perhaps we should just report it anyway, with as much information as we have?
Hopefully the developers have the same problem and we could work together to track it down.
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I'm reporting as we speak.
Edit3:
Bug # 299514 - Random unresponsive keyboard shortcuts and context menus
Please reply to the bug report if you have more information, or at least vote for it!
Just about the time CFRunLoop was turned on by default (bug # 298293). The problem is that its pattern when it happends, it just strikes randomly.
I usually notice it when copy and paste dont work anymore. Select some text and click cmd-c and nothing happends. The Edit - Copy menu are greyed out as well.
At the same time it blocks all context menus, ctrl-click and "Open Link in New tab" do nothing...
Its a major bug, but hard to report since there are no pattern to reproduce it.
Yes, it seems to "heal" itself on my side as well. Just switch between tabs some times and suddenly it works again. Strange!
I have seen it 2 or 3 times with my 20050702 build
Edit:
Perhaps we should just report it anyway, with as much information as we have?
Hopefully the developers have the same problem and we could work together to track it down.
Edit2:
I'm reporting as we speak.
Edit3:
Bug # 299514 - Random unresponsive keyboard shortcuts and context menus
Please reply to the bug report if you have more information, or at least vote for it!
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I think you are CFRunLoop with bfast cache . The pref you try to turn of is for bfast cache (try setting it to 0 , as in zero).
CFRunLoop is bug 282940, and on my side, the problems happen more frequently, I think, since that one landed.
It is very weird thing, when I posted my previous message, I did a copy paste (with the keyboard), and the 'Edit' menu didn't light up; now I just did the same and the menu did light up. But in both cases I could copy paste.
Powerbook, did you try with a fresh profile ?
BTW - very handy, that new [QE] button...
CFRunLoop is bug 282940, and on my side, the problems happen more frequently, I think, since that one landed.
It is very weird thing, when I posted my previous message, I did a copy paste (with the keyboard), and the 'Edit' menu didn't light up; now I just did the same and the menu did light up. But in both cases I could copy paste.
Powerbook, did you try with a fresh profile ?
BTW - very handy, that new [QE] button...
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phiw13 wrote:ref copy & paste.
That is a problem that I've experienced occasionaly for a long time.
I think this is down to focus issues with tabs (the program getting confused about what tab is active), which is also probably responsible for 258285. If I was king of Firefox, that'd be the one I had fixed though making scrolling not suck on OS X would be a close #2.
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powerbook wrote:I have random problems with copy, paste etc. as well.
Its been like this for some days now, but I have not been able to nail it.
I have been using your latest builds on my PowerBook G4 (10.3.9 and 10.4.1 dual boot on 1.25 GHz G4). I have not been able to paste into Firefox for over a week. Copying from Firefox sometimes works, but not always. I will look for a pattern and post here and to bugzilla with more information.
I have also been using your "FX-ppc7400-1.0.4.dmg" build on my upgraded iMac. It was faster than Safari 10.3.8, however now it seems like Safari 10.3.9 is slightly faster. Once the copying/pasting bug is fixed from the latest trunk version I would like a nice fresh build for the PPC 7400/7410 if it is possible.
Thank you for your hard work and dedication to this project! We G4 users salute you!
PowerBook G4 and Blueberry iMac upgraded to 500MHz G4