Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
There is no software without bugs. But there are bugs and BUGS. Second ones are annoying, well known and no one work on getting them fixed. Few examples:
FireFox/Iceweasel — many people use it, many people want to kill their developers. Why? It leaks memory, it eats memory, it can take 6GB of memory just because there is no more memory available in system. Problem exists in 2.0.x but also in 3.0 trunk version. No solution developed.
KMail — flagship of KDE PIM. It can fetch mail, send mail and do many other things with mails. And it can handle OpenPGP/GnuPG signed/encrypted ones. But a way how it handle them is horror. Whole UI freezes, no updates for several seconds just because someone decided to sign all his mails. Bug was submitted over 5 (FIVE) years ago, there was one major KDE release and many minor ones but bug is still present. No one even marked is as important.. No comments
I can live with first bug as for most of time I use Konqueror. But solving second one needs to wait until Mailody will get more usable so I will be able to switch to it. I lost faith that KDE PIM will get into more usable state then it is now.
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Thursday, November 30th, 2006 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
As desktop environment I use KDE 3.5.x but for developing websites I use Firefox and this force me into evil side of world — GTK one…
Each time when I have to upload file into system I need to think ‘does test17.png is <10K or not’ because GTK developers follow some kind of GNOME way to simplicity in removing anything which can be removed and more. I am not requesting thumbnails and other things from KDE filerequester but possibility to see sizes would be great.
I can not understand why there is no possibility to check file sizes — each other library which I used over years gave it.
Good thing is that Firefox allow to be configured to use own filerequester instead of shitty one.
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Thursday, November 16th, 2006 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
As I already wrote I switched to amd64 platform and reinstalled Debian on it. Everything works now… except Firefox.
Yes Firefox… I understand that Debian developers decided to not ship it due some licensing problems. But there was discussion about Iceweasel instead of it — too bad that it was only discussion ;( Today I have few possibilities:
- use Firefox 1.5.0.x which is old
- forget about Firefox and stick to Konqueror
- switch to Ubuntu which I do not want to do as I use Debian for years
- build Firefox 2.0 from source
- build Firefox 2.0 from Ubuntu sources
Probably will select one of last ones when will find some free time.
And Opera does not provide amd64 packages too ;(
UPDATE: I have Firefox 2.0 working now. To get it installed and working few steps need to be done:
- add
experimental into APT sources
- upgrade
libc6 and libgtk2 to ones from experimental
- fetch
firefox and libnss3 libnspr4 from Ubuntu
- install fetched packages
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Thursday, October 26th, 2006 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
IN Tuesday Mozilla Foundation released Firefox 2.0 version. Many websites wrote about it so I will not list what is new. There is one more reason to not do it — for me most of those new features are not new — during last 2 years I mostly use nightly builds of Firefox^W Bon Echo — first it was 1.5 nightly when other people used 1.0.x line, then I used 2.0 nightly during 1.5.0.x times.
Many extensions needed a bit of hacking (mostly bumping of MaxVersion), I had to edit my favorite theme (LittleFox) to get proper displaying but it was easy. Some authors were releasing updated (mostly ‘developers’) versions for 2.0-pre/rc versions.
Yesterday I tried Firefox^W Minefield 3.0 and now I have to decide will I use 2.0 or move to 3.0 version. One of nice things is plugin for del.icio.us bookmarks integration, which replace normal bookmarks. But installing it also means user cannot create non-del.icio.us bookmarks so I will rather remove it..
Anyway with release of Firefox 2.0 it is time to switch — from 1.5.0.x to 2.0 for ones and 2.0 -> 3.0 for me.
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Thursday, December 1st, 2005 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
Foxylicious extension was lately updated to Firefox 1.5 so finally I have all my del.icio.us bookmarks integrated with browser.
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
Today I looked into my FF 1.5beta extensions list and after little cleaning (removed few not recently used ones) I have 21 external extensions installed. Some of them are little tweaks which imho should be integrated in FireFox itself (like AutoMarks, Bookmarks Full Titles or LiveBookmarkThis).
Many extensions does not work out-of-box with 1.5beta — I changed MaxVersion for them and tested does they work.
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