Re: Giving up on Iceweasel 3.0

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 07/03/08 06:21, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > Well, I struggled with iceweasel 3.0 from Sid for a week but have now
> > given up. First, printing no longer worked (see earlier posts). I got it
> > to work, sort of, by using inotifywait and printing the mozilla.ps file
> > but it wasn't a good solution. Then I found I could no longer listent to
> > the BBC: attempts to do so caused a crash. This makes it largely useless
> > so far as I am concerned.
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> While I have no doubt that you are having problems, neither of those
> issues are happening to me.  My printer (blandly named "lp") shows
> up in the Print dialog box, and have RealPlayer 10.0.9-0.1 installed
> from debian-multimedia.org, so that's the format I choose when I
> click on a BBC Radio station.
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> Here are the pages I tested:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/

After installing realplayer, this does not cause a crash but a hang. I 
have to get rid of iceweasel manually with htop+kill sigterm.

Hugo


> http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0806/ref.shtml
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> > So I've installed the version from Testing and propose to stay with that
> > unless and until these bugs are fixed. I know there are said to be
> > security issues with older versions of the browser but I shall have to
> > hope for the best.