Good afternoon,
Apologies if this topic has come up before but I've found that the Firefox 45.1.0 stability to be somewhat lacking.
For example, I can't use it for Twitter because it crashes. It also crashes when I log into gmail. This happens every time I try these URL's.
Any suggestions on improving the stability?
Thanks!
Jeff
On 05/06/2016 11:54 AM, Jeff Layton wrote:
Good afternoon,
Apologies if this topic has come up before but I've found that the Firefox 45.1.0 stability to be somewhat lacking.
For example, I can't use it for Twitter because it crashes. It also crashes when I log into gmail. This happens every time I try these URL's.
Any suggestions on improving the stability?
It has not crashed on twitter at all for me.
I do run privacy badger on Twitter which blocks a lot of resources that want to track me, maybe some of those resources are what firefox is having trouble with?
I also don't have flash installed, nore Java plugin (not even iced-tea)
Alice Wonder wrote:
On 05/06/2016 11:54 AM, Jeff Layton wrote:
Good afternoon,
Apologies if this topic has come up before but I've found that the Firefox 45.1.0 stability to be somewhat lacking.
For example, I can't use it for Twitter because it crashes. It also crashes when I log into gmail. This happens every time I try these URL's.
Any suggestions on improving the stability?
It has not crashed on twitter at all for me.
I do run privacy badger on Twitter which blocks a lot of resources that want to track me, maybe some of those resources are what firefox is having trouble with?
I also don't have flash installed, nore Java plugin (not even iced-tea)
Right, well I can't do that at work. And I just had to downgrade firefox from 45, because I was *trying* to do my annual required privacy and security refresher, and it opened, it has, I think, flash audio, and firefox crashed, fired it up again, restored, and started and it crashed *again*, and a third time, and that was it: I downgraded, didn't have to (also couldn't) downgrade flash-plugin, but had no trouble at all completing the training. Note that I *could* play streaming media and youtube with 45, but... and, no, you've *got* to be joking to think I'm going to convince upper management to ban flash....
mark
Guys if you are using my repo on CentOS 6 then the new Firefox might not like the old ffmpeg I ship.
There is new and apparently working stuff in my testing repo; try to upgrade and see if that solves the problem. Feedback welcome so I can move the testing packages in the main repo sooner, rather than later.
yum --enablerepo=nux-dextop-testing update ffmpeg
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Nux! www.nux.ro
----- Original Message -----
From: "m roth" m.roth@5-cent.us To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Sent: Friday, 6 May, 2016 21:20:15 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Firefox 45.1.0 stability
Alice Wonder wrote:
On 05/06/2016 11:54 AM, Jeff Layton wrote:
Good afternoon,
Apologies if this topic has come up before but I've found that the Firefox 45.1.0 stability to be somewhat lacking.
For example, I can't use it for Twitter because it crashes. It also crashes when I log into gmail. This happens every time I try these URL's.
Any suggestions on improving the stability?
It has not crashed on twitter at all for me.
I do run privacy badger on Twitter which blocks a lot of resources that want to track me, maybe some of those resources are what firefox is having trouble with?
I also don't have flash installed, nore Java plugin (not even iced-tea)
Right, well I can't do that at work. And I just had to downgrade firefox from 45, because I was *trying* to do my annual required privacy and security refresher, and it opened, it has, I think, flash audio, and firefox crashed, fired it up again, restored, and started and it crashed *again*, and a third time, and that was it: I downgraded, didn't have to (also couldn't) downgrade flash-plugin, but had no trouble at all completing the training. Note that I *could* play streaming media and youtube with 45, but... and, no, you've *got* to be joking to think I'm going to convince upper management to ban flash....
mark
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Nux! wrote:
Guys if you are using my repo on CentOS 6 then the new Firefox might not like the old ffmpeg I ship.
Nope.
Yes, I'm on CentOS 6, but as this is a US federal organization (civil sector), I did ask, and was told no repos Over There. Security issues....
Thanks, though.
There is new and apparently working stuff in my testing repo; try to upgrade and see if that solves the problem. Feedback welcome so I can move the testing packages in the main repo sooner, rather than later.
yum --enablerepo=nux-dextop-testing update ffmpeg
-- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology!
Nux! www.nux.ro
----- Original Message -----
From: "m roth" m.roth@5-cent.us To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Sent: Friday, 6 May, 2016 21:20:15 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Firefox 45.1.0 stability
Alice Wonder wrote:
On 05/06/2016 11:54 AM, Jeff Layton wrote:
Good afternoon,
Apologies if this topic has come up before but I've found that the Firefox 45.1.0 stability to be somewhat lacking.
For example, I can't use it for Twitter because it crashes. It also crashes when I log into gmail. This happens every time I try these URL's.
Any suggestions on improving the stability?
It has not crashed on twitter at all for me.
I do run privacy badger on Twitter which blocks a lot of resources that want to track me, maybe some of those resources are what firefox is having trouble with?
I also don't have flash installed, nore Java plugin (not even iced-tea)
Right, well I can't do that at work. And I just had to downgrade firefox from 45, because I was *trying* to do my annual required privacy and security refresher, and it opened, it has, I think, flash audio, and firefox crashed, fired it up again, restored, and started and it crashed *again*, and a third time, and that was it: I downgraded, didn't have to (also couldn't) downgrade flash-plugin, but had no trouble at all completing the training. Note that I *could* play streaming media and youtube with 45, but... and, no, you've *got* to be joking to think I'm going to convince upper management to ban flash....
mark
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On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 16:44 -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Nux! wrote:
Guys if you are using my repo on CentOS 6 then the new Firefox might not like the old ffmpeg I ship.
Nope.
Yes, I'm on CentOS 6, but as this is a US federal organization (civil sector), I did ask, and was told no repos Over There. Security issues....
Romania has been a EU member State since 1 January 2007.
On Sat, May 7, 2016 6:38 pm, Always Learning wrote:
On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 16:44 -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Nux! wrote:
Guys if you are using my repo on CentOS 6 then the new Firefox might
not
like the old ffmpeg I ship.
Nope.
Yes, I'm on CentOS 6, but as this is a US federal organization (civil sector), I did ask, and was told no repos Over There. Security issues....
The same (their answer I mean) will probably apply to CentOS itself, will it? Where CentOS headquarters are situated, where CentOS team members live? And the same will apply to majority of open source systems, many BSD flavors will fall under the same category. My answer (to myself) is: I do trust open source. Be it closed source, then the company ownership would matter. But with open source, developers situated in Russia (where the KGB is which I'm awfully scared of) have my full trust as the ones living in US (where NSA is situated which I'm scared of no less). I though have no idea if at all I would be able to find right argument when told something by government bureaucrats.
Valeri
Romania has been a EU member State since 1 January 2007.
-- Regards,
Paul. England, EU. England's place is in the European Union.
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On 2016-05-06, Nux! nux@li.nux.ro wrote:
Guys if you are using my repo on CentOS 6 then the new Firefox might not like the old ffmpeg I ship.
There is new and apparently working stuff in my testing repo; try to upgrade and see if that solves the problem. Feedback welcome so I can move the testing packages in the main repo sooner, rather than later.
yum --enablerepo=nux-dextop-testing update ffmpeg
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Nux! www.nux.ro
That fixed it for me. Many thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "m roth" m.roth@5-cent.us To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Sent: Friday, 6 May, 2016 21:20:15 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Firefox 45.1.0 stability
Alice Wonder wrote:
On 05/06/2016 11:54 AM, Jeff Layton wrote:
Good afternoon,
Apologies if this topic has come up before but I've found that the Firefox 45.1.0 stability to be somewhat lacking.
For example, I can't use it for Twitter because it crashes. It also crashes when I log into gmail. This happens every time I try these URL's.
Any suggestions on improving the stability?
It has not crashed on twitter at all for me.
I do run privacy badger on Twitter which blocks a lot of resources that want to track me, maybe some of those resources are what firefox is having trouble with?
I also don't have flash installed, nore Java plugin (not even iced-tea)
Right, well I can't do that at work. And I just had to downgrade firefox from 45, because I was *trying* to do my annual required privacy and security refresher, and it opened, it has, I think, flash audio, and firefox crashed, fired it up again, restored, and started and it crashed *again*, and a third time, and that was it: I downgraded, didn't have to (also couldn't) downgrade flash-plugin, but had no trouble at all completing the training. Note that I *could* play streaming media and youtube with 45, but... and, no, you've *got* to be joking to think I'm going to convince upper management to ban flash....
mark
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Sat, 7 May 2016, Liam O'Toole wrote:
On 2016-05-06, Nux! nux@li.nux.ro wrote:
Guys if you are using my repo on CentOS 6 then the new Firefox might not like the old ffmpeg I ship.
There is new and apparently working stuff in my testing repo; try to upgrade and see if that solves the problem. Feedback welcome so I can move the testing packages in the main repo sooner, rather than later.
yum --enablerepo=nux-dextop-testing update ffmpeg
-- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology!
Nux! www.nux.ro
That fixed it for me. Many thanks.
My Firefox ESR 45.1.0 on CentOS 6 crashes a lot, usually while I am scrolling. So far as I can tell, I'm not using ffmpeg lately. Is this still likely to help?
On Sat, 7 May 2016, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Sat, 7 May 2016, Liam O'Toole wrote:
On 2016-05-06, Nux! nux@li.nux.ro wrote:
Guys if you are using my repo on CentOS 6 then the new Firefox might not like the old ffmpeg I ship.
There is new and apparently working stuff in my testing repo; try to upgrade and see if that solves the problem. Feedback welcome so I can move the testing packages in the main repo sooner, rather than later.
yum --enablerepo=nux-dextop-testing update ffmpeg
-- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology!
Nux! www.nux.ro
That fixed it for me. Many thanks.
My Firefox ESR 45.1.0 on CentOS 6 crashes a lot, usually while I am scrolling. So far as I can tell, I'm not using ffmpeg lately. Is this still likely to help?
This time it crashed when I tried to close a tab. Don't know if it worked.
On 2016-05-07, Michael Hennebry hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
On Sat, 7 May 2016, Liam O'Toole wrote:
On 2016-05-06, Nux! nux@li.nux.ro wrote:
Guys if you are using my repo on CentOS 6 then the new Firefox might not like the old ffmpeg I ship.
There is new and apparently working stuff in my testing repo; try to upgrade and see if that solves the problem. Feedback welcome so I can move the testing packages in the main repo sooner, rather than later.
yum --enablerepo=nux-dextop-testing update ffmpeg
-- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology!
Nux! www.nux.ro
That fixed it for me. Many thanks.
My Firefox ESR 45.1.0 on CentOS 6 crashes a lot, usually while I am scrolling. So far as I can tell, I'm not using ffmpeg lately. Is this still likely to help?
It will help if ffmpeg is installed. But ffmpeg is not in the official repository, so it will not be installed unless you went of your way to get it.
What you can try is to refresh your FF profile[1]. I found that FF 45 was crashing on gmail (so no video involved) until I did that.
1: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-setti...
On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 21:32 +0100, Nux! wrote:
Guys if you are using my repo on CentOS 6 then the new Firefox might not like the old ffmpeg I ship.
There is new and apparently working stuff in my testing repo; try to upgrade and see if that solves the problem. Feedback welcome so I can move the testing packages in the main repo sooner, rather than later.
yum --enablerepo=nux-dextop-testing update ffmpeg
Installed on my box I normally remote into via RealVNC and gave it a good woorkout (for me anyway).
Looks good. Couldn't yet test with a Flash video but did test with whatever youtube is now providing.
Fired up all the FF windows and did things I normally do and a couple extras - still looks good.
Only difference is the data feed from Investorshub isn't streaming live data, but it did pring up the last of Friday's stuff in three tabs, which is the normal weekend behavior.
I'm going to put it on my primary box now - I expect similar good results.
Bill
<snip>
On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 21:32 +0100, Nux! wrote:
Guys if you are using my repo on CentOS 6 then the new Firefox might not like the old ffmpeg I ship.
There is new and apparently working stuff in my testing repo; try to upgrade and see if that solves the problem. Feedback welcome so I can move the testing packages in the main repo sooner, rather than later.
yum --enablerepo=nux-dextop-testing update ffmpeg
<snip>
Got it on my primary box and fired everything up. Same sorts of tests as on the other bo produced only one aggravation - slow response.
I don't think this is related to your stuff though. I tend to have nay windows open with many tabs in each FF window and I think I'm just overloading it.
Sites try to "push" content, which I don't allow, pop-up adds, which I don't allow, ...
Couldn't get the Flash plugin to work on that login - suspected the load. So I switched to another login, went to Bloomberg.tv, which delivers content in flash, and all worked just fine.
So AFAICT, your new stuff is GTG for me.
Bill
On Fri, 6 May 2016, Nux! wrote:
Guys if you are using my repo on CentOS 6 then the new Firefox might not like the old ffmpeg I ship.
There is new and apparently working stuff in my testing repo; try to upgrade and see if that solves the problem. Feedback welcome so I can move the testing packages in the main repo sooner, rather than later.
yum --enablerepo=nux-dextop-testing update ffmpeg
On the test pages I had problems with, the crash is gone, and h264 video playback works fine.
I've not seen any new problems.
jh
On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 02:54:06PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
Good afternoon,
Apologies if this topic has come up before but I've found that the Firefox 45.1.0 stability to be somewhat lacking.
For example, I can't use it for Twitter because it crashes. It also crashes when I log into gmail. This happens every time I try these URL's.
Any suggestions on improving the stability?
It's been running well for me on C7. All the posts I've seen about crashing refer to C6.
Oops - I should have mentioned that I'm running C6 (I do need to upgrade at some point).
Jeff
On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 02:54:06PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
Good afternoon,
Apologies if this topic has come up before but I've found that the Firefox 45.1.0 stability to be somewhat lacking.
For example, I can't use it for Twitter because it crashes. It also crashes when I log into gmail. This happens every time I try these URL's.
Any suggestions on improving the stability?
It's been running well for me on C7. All the posts I've seen about crashing refer to C6.
On 05/06/2016 02:55 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
Oops - I should have mentioned that I'm running C6 (I do need to upgrade at some point).
Jeff
On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 02:54:06PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
Good afternoon,
Apologies if this topic has come up before but I've found that the Firefox 45.1.0 stability to be somewhat lacking.
For example, I can't use it for Twitter because it crashes. It also crashes when I log into gmail. This happens every time I try these URL's.
Any suggestions on improving the stability?
It's been running well for me on C7. All the posts I've seen about crashing refer to C6.
If you look the the FF SOURCES, they include newer GCC to compile things, etc.
Where are you getting your flash from?
On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 06:31:18PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 05/06/2016 02:55 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
Oops - I should have mentioned that I'm running C6 (I do need to upgrade at some point).
Jeff
On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 02:54:06PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
Good afternoon,
Apologies if this topic has come up before but I've found that the Firefox 45.1.0 stability to be somewhat lacking.
For example, I can't use it for Twitter because it crashes. It also crashes when I log into gmail. This happens every time I try these URL's.
Any suggestions on improving the stability?
It's been running well for me on C7. All the posts I've seen about crashing refer to C6.
If you look the the FF SOURCES, they include newer GCC to compile things, etc.
Where are you getting your flash from?
Johnny, are you asking me, or the OP? Mine comes straight from Adobe.
On Fri, May 6, 2016 1:54 pm, Jeff Layton wrote:
Good afternoon,
Apologies if this topic has come up before but I've found that the Firefox 45.1.0 stability to be somewhat lacking.
<rant> I've found that about Firefox in general some 5 years ago. Or rather "releases" that seem never have been debugged before the release. But I still have not found decent replacements for it. I've tried, trust me ;-( </rant>
Valeri
For example, I can't use it for Twitter because it crashes. It also crashes when I log into gmail. This happens every time I try these URL's.
Any suggestions on improving the stability?
Thanks!
Jeff
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++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On Fri, 6 May 2016, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On Fri, May 6, 2016 1:54 pm, Jeff Layton wrote:
Good afternoon,
Apologies if this topic has come up before but I've found that the Firefox 45.1.0 stability to be somewhat lacking.
<rant> I've found that about Firefox in general some 5 years ago. Or rather "releases" that seem never have been debugged before the release. But I still have not found decent replacements for it. I've tried, trust me ;-( </rant>
After years of FF changing things in not good ways (the current way the back button behaves was the last straw), I was finally able to switch to chrome on C-6 using the directions found @ http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/ (thanks to Richard Lloyd for figuring this out)
It works so well I have not looked back. Is Chrome perfect, not at all BUT it is way more stable then FireFox has been for years now.
Just my $.02
Regards,
On Sat, May 7, 2016 12:07 pm, me@tdiehl.org wrote:
On Fri, 6 May 2016, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On Fri, May 6, 2016 1:54 pm, Jeff Layton wrote:
Good afternoon,
Apologies if this topic has come up before but I've found that the Firefox 45.1.0 stability to be somewhat lacking.
<rant> I've found that about Firefox in general some 5 years ago. Or rather "releases" that seem never have been debugged before the release. But I still have not found decent replacements for it. I've tried, trust me ;-( </rant>
After years of FF changing things in not good ways (the current way the back button behaves was the last straw), I was finally able to switch to chrome on C-6 using the directions found @ http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/ (thanks to Richard Lloyd for figuring this out)
It works so well I have not looked back. Is Chrome perfect, not at all BUT it is way more stable then FireFox has been for years now.
I usually include it into my rant, I forgot this time. No google chrome for me, thank you very much. Nothing google to a degree possible. I don't like my everything going to google (and NSA and whichever others) databases. I know that 50% of my e-mail end up in googlemail anyway, like this one definitely will, still...
Thanks for the hint though. It will help those who don't care to be watched after like [those regimes all of us can name themselves]
Valeri
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On 05/07/2016 11:14 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
I usually include it into my rant, I forgot this time. No google chrome for me, thank you very much. Nothing google to a degree possible. I don't like my everything going to google (and NSA and whichever others) databases. I know that 50% of my e-mail end up in googlemail anyway, like this one definitely will, still...
Thanks for the hint though. It will help those who don't care to be watched after like [those regimes all of us can name themselves]
Valeri
LOL!
Google use to say "Don't be Evil"
So the motto of a new service I am trying to start =
"Don't be G**gl*"
(I'm hoping the * is enough, but I'm not a lawyer, I think it would be okay under parody use anyway but...)
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