Re: vivaldi?

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On Sunday 03 January 2016 21:56:46 David Christensen wrote:

> On 01/03/2016 02:14 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Well, slashdot can crash chrome just sitting there on the front
> > page, presumably when an attempt is made to load some off-my-screen
> > bit of slashdot.
> >
> > http://www.cbsnews.com/news/armed-militia-takeover-oregon-debate-mea
> >ning-of-terrorist/
>
> Testing IceWeasel 38.5.0 on a fresh install of
> debian-7.9.0-amd64-xfce, I see a web page with lots of text and
> images.  I do not see any error messages.
>
> > http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-marshal-south-dakota-shoots-kills-sou
> >th-carolina-murder-suspect/
>
> I see a pop-up/ overlay for ~10 seconds, then I see the web page.
>
> > http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-quiet-power-of-meditation/
>
> I see the web page.
>
> > http://www.cbsnews.com/news/activists-target-gun-makers-with-unload-
> >your-401k/
>
> I see the web page.
>
> > Thats 4 that give this:
> > Error 413 Request Entity Too Large, purported from the varnish cache
> > server, whatever the heck that is.
>
> Did you click on something to produce that error message?
>
Yes, the listed links.

> > http://freedomoutpost.com/2016/01/isis-to-activate-thousands-of-slee
> >per-cells-in-2016-to-destabilize-the-west/
>
> I see the web page.
>
> > There I found a flash, tried to play it,
>
> Following the paragraph "Baghdadi added: ...", I see a grayed area
> with the text "A plugin is needed to display this content".  Clicking
> on it has no effect.
>
>
> If I browse to YouTube, and click on the top video "Coldplay - Birds
> (Official video)", it plays.  Testing two others, they work fine. 
> Note that I did not need to install browser-plugin-gnash, so YouTube
> is likely detecting what IceWeasel supports OOTB and sending a
> suitable video stream.
>
> > clicked on the update now
> > button. it went thru the download of a 32 bit version in a tar.gz,
> > supposedly saving it in ~/Downloads. This is the only flash file in
> > Downloads:
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene    5979889 Aug 25  2013
> > flashplayer_11_sa.i386.tar.gz
> > I have unpacked it and installed it several times, no effect.
>
> I think you've boogered your machine.  Put in another system drive (or
> USB stick), do a plain vanilla install of Wheezy with Xfce, take an
> image, and then try IceWeasel.
>
>
> David


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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