[opensuse-factory] Firefox not working

Donn Washburn

12 Jan 2010 12 Jan '10

01:15

Hey group; How come firefox will not show "About" or "Preferences". And why is that a factory version will fail to work correctly? It seems openSuSE has made it with less than complete version (compare the number of files). It will not see OpenOffice3 for pps downloaded from Thunderbird after written to /tmp/file.pps. Firefox just states it doesn't know how to handle the pps file. OpenOffice3 does. And in the past you could tell Firefox Preferences to do that. Oh by the way Blender 2.49b still fails to come up openSuSE 11.3 -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email:" n5xwb@comcast.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb@arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

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Ken Schneider - openSUSE

12 Jan 12 Jan

04:18

On 01/11/2010 08:15 PM, Donn Washburn pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

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Hey group;

How come firefox will not show "About" or "Preferences". And why is that a factory version will fail to work correctly? It seems openSuSE has made it with less than complete version (compare the number of files). It will not see OpenOffice3 for pps downloaded from Thunderbird after written to /tmp/file.pps. Firefox just states it doesn't know how to handle the pps file. OpenOffice3 does. And in the past you could tell Firefox Preferences to do that.

Oh by the way Blender 2.49b still fails to come up

openSuSE 11.3

Report the problems on bugzilla instead of just complaining here. This is factory after all. Expect problems and report them or don't use factory, your choice. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

Carlos E. R.

21:24

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2010-01-11 at 23:18 -0500, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:

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On 01/11/2010 08:15 PM, Donn Washburn pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

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Hey group;

How come firefox will not show "About" or "Preferences". And why is that a factory version will fail to work correctly? It seems openSuSE has made it with less than complete version (compare the number of files). It will not see OpenOffice3 for pps downloaded from Thunderbird after written to /tmp/file.pps. Firefox just states it doesn't know how to handle the pps file. OpenOffice3 does. And in the past you could tell Firefox Preferences to do that.

Oh by the way Blender 2.49b still fails to come up

openSuSE 11.3

Report the problems on bugzilla instead of just complaining here. This is factory after all. Expect problems and report them or don't use factory, your choice.

This list is the proper place to report problems on factory before writing a bugzilla. It may be a known problem, it may be a configuration problem, and somebody may know about it and comment. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktM6H4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UqDQCfXHwX9hS9NXtG6Ld74rMVNJgR /+8An22sy47Uu18tg0QXdsEKgVJqyJ2B =riMU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

Donn Washburn

23:51

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On Monday, 2010-01-11 at 23:18 -0500, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:

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On 01/11/2010 08:15 PM, Donn Washburn pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

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Hey group;

How come firefox will not show "About" or "Preferences". And why is that a factory version will fail to work correctly? It seems openSuSE has made it with less than complete version (compare the number of files). It will not see OpenOffice3 for pps downloaded from Thunderbird after written to /tmp/file.pps. Firefox just states it doesn't know how to handle the pps file. OpenOffice3 does. And in the past you could tell Firefox Preferences to do that.

Oh by the way Blender 2.49b still fails to come up

openSuSE 11.3

Report the problems on bugzilla instead of just complaining here. This is factory after all. Expect problems and report them or don't use factory, your choice.

This list is the proper place to report problems on factory before writing a bugzilla. It may be a known problem, it may be a configuration problem, and somebody may know about it and comment.

- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. Besides which bug list should this be on KDE4, Firefox or openSuSE?. Or in the case of OOO3 not writing do a hard disk. By the way my

On 01/12/2010 03:24 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: problem with OOO3 was caused by gvfs. Works now. -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email:" n5xwb@comcast.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb@arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

Basil Chupin

13 Jan 13 Jan

00:36

On 13/01/10 10:51, Donn Washburn wrote:

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On 01/12/2010 03:24 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On Monday, 2010-01-11 at 23:18 -0500, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:

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On 01/11/2010 08:15 PM, Donn Washburn pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

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Hey group;

How come firefox will not show "About" or "Preferences". And why is that a factory version will fail to work correctly? It seems openSuSE has made it with less than complete version (compare the number of files). It will not see OpenOffice3 for pps downloaded from Thunderbird after written to /tmp/file.pps. Firefox just states it doesn't know how to handle the pps file. OpenOffice3 does. And in the past you could tell Firefox Preferences to do that.

Oh by the way Blender 2.49b still fails to come up

openSuSE 11.3

Report the problems on bugzilla instead of just complaining here. This is factory after all. Expect problems and report them or don't use factory, your choice.

This list is the proper place to report problems on factory before writing a bugzilla. It may be a known problem, it may be a configuration problem, and somebody may know about it and comment.

- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. Besides which bug list should this be on KDE4, Firefox or openSuSE?.

A most excellent question - who to put the blame on? :-) Which is why Carlos correctly suggested to raise a problem here in the first instance before running to the bugzilla. BC -- Take the bull by the tail and look the facts in the face. W C Fields -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

Ken Schneider - openSUSE

01:52

On 01/12/2010 07:36 PM, Basil Chupin pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

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On 13/01/10 10:51, Donn Washburn wrote:

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On 01/12/2010 03:24 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On Monday, 2010-01-11 at 23:18 -0500, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:

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On 01/11/2010 08:15 PM, Donn Washburn pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

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Hey group;

How come firefox will not show "About" or "Preferences". And why is that a factory version will fail to work correctly? It seems openSuSE has made it with less than complete version (compare the number of files). It will not see OpenOffice3 for pps downloaded from Thunderbird after written to /tmp/file.pps. Firefox just states it doesn't know how to handle the pps file. OpenOffice3 does. And in the past you could tell Firefox Preferences to do that.

Oh by the way Blender 2.49b still fails to come up

openSuSE 11.3

Report the problems on bugzilla instead of just complaining here. This is factory after all. Expect problems and report them or don't use factory, your choice.

This list is the proper place to report problems on factory before writing a bugzilla. It may be a known problem, it may be a configuration problem, and somebody may know about it and comment.

- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. Besides which bug list should this be on KDE4, Firefox or openSuSE?.

A most excellent question - who to put the blame on? :-) Which is why Carlos correctly suggested to raise a problem here in the first instance before running to the bugzilla.

BC

No offense to anyone but bugzilla should be a source of information as well as reporting problems. If the problem can't be found there (yes it has a poor search function) then report it here and enter it in bugzilla. :-) -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

Basil Chupin

05:44

On 13/01/10 12:52, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote: [To keep the mail list kop, Patrick, off my tail I have heavily trimmed this post :-) ]

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No offense to anyone

I, at least take no offence.

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but bugzilla should be a source of information as well as reporting problems.

A legitimate view, Ken. But not accepted by a number of people. Why, you ask?

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If the problem can't be found there (yes it has a poor search function)

Aha! "...a poor search function". You answered the question yourself :-)

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then report it here and enter it in bugzilla. :-)

(But then we have all read about where reports to bugzilla have been rejected. "What is a girl to do?!",I ask you :-D ) BC -- Take the bull by the tail and look the facts in the face. W C Fields -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

Patrick Shanahan

15:11

* Basil Chupin [01-13-10 00:47]:

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On 13/01/10 12:52, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:

[To keep the mail list kop, Patrick, off my tail I have heavily trimmed this post :-) ]

Basil, you clearly have placed your head where the "sun don't shine", for evermore and, one for twenty is *not* a good average. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

Basil Chupin

22:36

On 14/01/10 02:11, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Basil Chupin [01-13-10 00:47]:

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On 13/01/10 12:52, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:

[To keep the mail list kop, Patrick, off my tail I have heavily trimmed this post :-) ]

Basil, you clearly have placed your head where the "sun don't shine", for evermore

and, one for twenty is *not* a good average.

You're right, Patrick, my batting average has not been good recently. Time to go and gaze at the clouds and smell the flowers. BC -- Take the bull by the tail and look the facts in the face. W C Fields -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

Donn Washburn

22:53

On 01/13/2010 04:36 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:

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On 14/01/10 02:11, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Basil Chupin [01-13-10 00:47]:

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On 13/01/10 12:52, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:

[To keep the mail list kop, Patrick, off my tail I have heavily trimmed this post :-) ]

Basil, you clearly have placed your head where the "sun don't shine", for evermore

and, one for twenty is *not* a good average.

You're right, Patrick, my batting average has not been good recently. Time to go and gaze at the clouds and smell the flowers.

BC

Hey Group; I download from Mozilla Firefox 3.5.7 and installed it over openSuSE's 3.5.6 and very thing is now working including About and Preference. Just to let folks know it may have been a 3.5.6 problem solved by Mozilla -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email:" n5xwb@comcast.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb@arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

Wolfgang Rosenauer

23:04

Hi, Am 13.01.2010 23:53, schrieb Donn Washburn:

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Hey Group;

I download from Mozilla Firefox 3.5.7 and installed it over openSuSE's 3.5.6 and very thing is now working including About and Preference. Just to let folks know it may have been a 3.5.6 problem solved by Mozilla

I finally came around to test on Factory. I had 3.5.7 already installed and it works for me (actually the original report was not very detailed so not sure if I've tested everything or the right thing at all). After that I updated to the real current Factory version which is 3.6rc1 and still it does what it's expected to do for me. So please if anyone seeing an issue can describe it so that it's actually reproducible or at least has some more information besides "it's not working" please speak up now with as most information as you can get. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

Sid Boyce

23:34

On 13/01/10 23:04, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:

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Hi,

Am 13.01.2010 23:53, schrieb Donn Washburn:

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Hey Group;

I download from Mozilla Firefox 3.5.7 and installed it over openSuSE's 3.5.6 and very thing is now working including About and Preference. Just to let folks know it may have been a 3.5.6 problem solved by Mozilla

When installing such stuff, it's better to use /opt or /usr/local so the original is left in place to be returned to when the new one misbehaves.

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I finally came around to test on Factory. I had 3.5.7 already installed and it works for me (actually the original report was not very detailed so not sure if I've tested everything or the right thing at all). After that I updated to the real current Factory version which is 3.6rc1 and still it does what it's expected to do for me.

So please if anyone seeing an issue can describe it so that it's actually reproducible or at least has some more information besides "it's not working" please speak up now with as most information as you can get.

Wolfgang

Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

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