From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:14 WST-8WST,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,0 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 2097 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Sunday 28 April 2013 Number 2097 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Firefox fun : Peter Moylan **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:18:57 +1000 From: Peter Moylan Subject: Re: Firefox fun On 27/04/13 23:51, John Angelico wrote: > On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 20:31:53 +1000 Peter Moylan wrote: > > Hi Peter. > >> >> Here's an update for those of you with an interest in the right-click >> Firefox crash. (But I'm afraid it adds nothing on how to fix the >> problem. It's just an excuse for a gripe.) I'm running Firefox 10.0.11. > > I'm on 10.0.12, any reason you are still on 11? Somehow I missed the announcement of 10.0.12. I've now installed it, but something's gone wrong with the installation. It's probably because I am running Build_MZFNTCFGFT_RUNTIME.cmd from the wrong directory, or something like that. I've copied the DLLs from that that cmd file produced into my firefox10.0.12 directory, but apparently that's not enough. After a bit of a disk search I've discovered a WPI file called D:\mozilla dot org\MZFNTCFGFT_RUNTIME\History\MZFNTCFGFT_RUNTIME-10-0-12.wpi, but I don't know whether that has already executed. I'll figure it out eventually. > >> While reading my e-mail I clicked on an "unsubscribe" link. (From >> myheritage dot com. They have a habit of signing you up to other people's >> family trees.) Being a multitasking sort of person, I then went off to >> do other things while Firefox was starting up. > >> When I right-clicked on a desktop folder, I got the familiar "expanding >> menus" symptom, and then the whole WPS crashed. I had to reboot. > > > I don't get even that far. If FF isn't running, my PMMail "explore > URL" option goes into nothingness. > > I have to make sure FF is up and running. THEN a link to a URL works > fine. I have a similar problem with Thunderbird. The "Internet Application Integration Tool" is supposed to fix this, but somehow it never does. The http: links from Thunderbird work,but the ftp: ones don't. > >> I've always been annoyed by an OS/2 "feature" that even Microsoft >> finally got right. When a new program is starting, it grabs control of >> the keyboard and mouse long before it opens any window on the screen. >> Most of the time this just means that you lose a line or two of what you >> were typing. Sometimes, as in the present case, it has a fatal result. >> Of course, it's far too late to ask IBM to fix this problem. > > But isn't there still some WPS work going on? Yes, but programs should be opening up their main window _behind_ whatever is already running. Instead, almost all programs seize the focus immediately, and at normal typing speed I can type quite a lot before I realise that what I've been typing hasn't gone into the window I thought I was typing into. > >> As for Firefox, I guess I'd better go back to version 4. From what I >> hear, there just isn't enough manpower available to track down this >> major bug. > > That sounds like a drastic back-levelling... I've tested all the releases in between, and version 4 is the last version that doesn't have the "expanding menus" problem. -- Peter Moylan peter at pmoylan dot org http://www.pmoylan dot org -------------------------------------------------- ===