Browsers acting weird.
Hello, sorry for posting in this dev mailing list but there's no mailing list for GNOME users in Debian and since I'm using GNOME 3 from mainly experimental, maybe you might be interested.
I'll mention something that may be relevant to what is causing these quirks: about two days ago I run 'deborphan' and 'apt-get autoremove --purge' to clean the cruft from my system. The relevant operations (from /var/log/apt/history.log ) are:
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Start-Date: 2011-09-02 19:45:22
Commandline: apt-get purge libqt4-gui libqt4-webkit ttf-droid gstreamer0.10-pitfdll libtracker-client-0.10-0 libqt4-core
Purge: libqt4-core:i386 (4.7.3-7), gstreamer0.10-pitfdll:i386 (0.9.1.1+cvs20080215-1), libqt4-webkit:i386 (4.7.3-7), libqt4-gui:i386 (4.7.3-7), libtracker-client-0.10-0:i386 (0.10.24-1), ttf-droid:i386 (20101110+git-2)
End-Date: 2011-09-02 19:45:27
Start-Date: 2011-09-02 19:47:21
End-Date: 2011-09-02 19:47:21
Start-Date: 2011-09-02 19:48:38
Commandline: apt-get purge fonts-droid libmysqlclient16 libqt4-designer libqt4-script libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-mysql libqt4-svg libqtlocation1 libqtmultimediakit1 libqtwebkit4 mysql-common
Purge: libqtmultimediakit1:i386 (1.2.0-1), libqt4-sql-mysql:i386 (4.7.3-7), libqtwebkit4:i386 (2.1.0~2011week13-2), mysql-common:i386 (5.1.58-1), libqtlocation1:i386 (1.2.0-1), libqt4-sql:i386 (4.7.3-7), libqt4-svg:i386 (4.7.3-7), libqt4-designer:i386 (4.7.3-7), libmysqlclient16:i386 (5.1.58-1), fonts-droid:i386 (20101110+git-2), libqt4-script:i386 (4.7.3-7)
End-Date: 2011-09-02 19:48:50
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After that, Google Chrome (my default browser) started to crash when trying to open its Preferences tab or when visiting a site that has login (like a forum). Then I suspected that it could've been having trouble with sqlite files and checked the packages I had removed but none of them was a dependency and since I don't understand about this sql thing I didn't want to install them again.
While messing with this I temporarily installed
libsqlite0:i386 (2.8.17-6.1, automatic), libsqliteodbc:i386 (0.91-3)
which were suggestions for libreoffice and then, besides Chrome still crashing, whenever I visited a forum site with Epiphany the Libreoffice startpage opened (!). What's weird is that after removing libsqlite0 and libsqliteodbc this behaviour continued.
I deleted cache, and configs for Chrome and Epiphany and it didn't solve Chrome's crash (well, actually yesterday I used Chrome for quite a while without it crashing but today it started to crash again) nor Epiphany calling Libreoffice's start page.
I then removed Epiphany today (replaced it for Chomium to satisfy gnome-core; but didn't use Chromium) and installed Midori. Guess what? Midori at first crashed too, then I disabled its extensions and when visiting a forum page it opened Libreoffice's start page too!
I'm writing this from Firefox, which seems to be the only unaffected browser.
I have another sid system with KDE and Chrome works fine there so it must be related with the packages that were removed plus GNOME 3.
So I may eventually try to reinstall those mysql stuff, although I have no idea about why it should be causing this nor do I currently use that but if anyone reading this has ever encounterd this strange behaviour of the browser (specially Epiphany) opening Libreoffice's start page when visiting a page that has authentication support and knows how to fix it then please point it out to me.
P.S. - another maybe relevant info is that I had upgraded libreoffice from 3.4.2 to 3.4.3 just before those purging operations. So it may be due to this new version.
Regards.
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