Firefox disasters

[Martin Kho]

On Wednesday 11 November 2009 00:33:18 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 20:01 +0100, Martin Kho wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 November 2009 19:45:45 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 18:49 +0100, Martin Kho wrote:
> > > > > Unfortunately I've never managed to get Chromium to connect to any
> > > >
> > > > web
> > > >
> > > > > site, even its own help page. I keep it up to date via the repo,
> > > > > but
> > > >
> > > > no
> > > >
> > > > > version has ever worked for me. It just sits there with a spinning
> > > > > cursor and the message "Connecting ..." in the lower left corner.
> > > > >
> > > > > Fedora 11 fully updated, 64-bit.
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > That's strange. I use it on both FC11 and FC12 x86_64. Current build
> > > > is 4.0.227.0. It can even show Google Wave and is usable :-)
> > >
> > > Same here. I've no idea why this happens. Are you also using it with
> > > KDE?
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Yes. Are you using nspluginwrapper for flash etc? I had always troubles
> > with this wrapper (high cpu usage, memory leaks and crashes) so I now use
> > the 64- bit alpha flash player.
> 
> I also use the 64-bit alpha player, besides which I'm not even trying to
> visit a Flash site.
> 
> poc
> 
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I don't like Adobe's Flash player either, but the open source variants - gnash 
and swfdec - are still not very useful. swfdec makes good progress, though. 
We'll have to wait a while, a suppose :-(

What me keeps puzzling is why Chromium is not working for you. What do you get 
when you open a new tab?

Martin Kho