--- On Sat, 4/10/10, Temlakos <temlakos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Temlakos <temlakos@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: firefox rant, thanks for konqueror to the KDE devs.
> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, April 10, 2010, 2:00 PM
> On 04/10/2010 04:51 PM, Rahul
> Sundaram wrote:
> > On 04/11/2010 02:13 AM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> >
> >> Dear fellow Fedora users,
> >>
> >> \begin{rant}
> >> I have tried to use firefox on/off for a while,
> and I know since it is opensource, Fedora will stick with it
> even though it has become a big and ugly resource taker :(.
> >>
> >> The other day I was giving it a chance and
> browsing the web happily, and then all of a sudden my
> machine died on me, I could not move the mouse, I could not
> CTRL+ALT+F2 to get a terminal(since CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE was
> removed by Xorg(thanks guys))
> >>
> > This functionality was disabled by default but never
> removed.
> >
> >
> >> I submitted it and it says it went to the kernel
> and not to FIREFOX. How sad it was a kernel oops and
> not a FIREFOX oops. I beg to differ.
> >>
> >>
> > What you have shown is quite clearly a kernel bug
> although Firefox might
> > have triggered it. It seems a misdirected rant
> to me.
> >
> > Rahul
> >
>
> The kernel has had this very odd bug since version
> 2.6.32.10, but once
> even 2.6.32.9 did it--though it had not done this before I
> used
> 2.6.32.10 for the first time. And it happened just a couple
> of hours or
> so ago with 2.6.32.11. And it usually happens when I have
> Firefox
> running, especially in the foreground, and move the cursor
> to the bottom
> of the screen to reveal the panel, which I keep hidden.
>
> But I have not been able to capture any debugging
> information.
>
> I happen to think that Firefox does a lot of things for me
> that
> Konqueror cannot handle. For example, Konqueror cannot
> handle the many
> Java scripts that, say, Digg.com has. "Digging," even when
> I am logged
> on, always seems to go nowhere in Konqueror.
>
> Temlakos
> --
Bless you sir! I am thankful that I am not the only one that this has happened to.
It would be nice that konqueror become more feature rich to accomodate those Java scripts that you mention in Digg, but that has to come from upstream I believe(KDE.org itself) and in no way blame Fedora packagers for it, right?
Regards,
Antonio
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