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Eugene Gorbunoff

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Firefox and youtube
« on: April 10, 2019, 10:31:38 pm »
Please confirm, does Firefox 38 support youtube?

I am using ArcaOS 5.0 and Firefox doesn't support playback of videos.
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David Graser

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Re: Firefox and youtube
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2019, 11:42:39 pm »
Please confirm, does Firefox 38 support youtube?

I am using ArcaOS 5.0 and Firefox doesn't support playback of videos.
Related: Google CAPTCHA doesn't work => it's impossible use popular web-sites.

Eugene

If I remember correctly, no.

You need to try the latest FF.  I have used both the  FFPentium and the FFSandyBrige and both work good.

https://bitbucket.org/dryeo/dry-comm-esr31/downloads/


FFSandyBridge 45.9.0 runs just about everything I throw at it except for sites that require a Windows browser.  I use the OS/4 kernel, the FFSandyBridge, and the AVX libs since the OS/4 kernel can use AVX.  For some reason, I cannot find Dave's AVX libs on line.

The FFPentium runs good with the OS/2 kernel.

« Last Edit: April 10, 2019, 11:59:37 pm by David Graser »

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Re: Firefox and youtube
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2019, 12:08:19 am »
Please confirm, does Firefox 38 support youtube?

I am using ArcaOS 5.0 and Firefox doesn't support playback of videos.

With Firefox 38.8.0 I could play Youtube videos, but some months ago that stopped.
Apparently Youtube no longer supports Firefox 38.8.0 , but it still allows Firefox 45.9.

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Re: Firefox and youtube
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2019, 12:26:08 am »
Please confirm, does Firefox 38 support youtube?

I am using ArcaOS 5.0 and Firefox doesn't support playback of videos.

With Firefox 38.8.0 I could play Youtube videos, but some months ago that stopped.
Apparently Youtube no longer supports Firefox 38.8.0 , but it still allows Firefox 45.9.

Tom, you are right.  It worked for a very short time and quit working.  That was when I switched to FF45.9.0.

Dave Yeo

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Re: Firefox and youtube
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2019, 12:43:18 am »
Please confirm, does Firefox 38 support youtube?

I haven't tried it in sometime but others have answered. Make sure you have the FFmpeg libs installed.

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I am using ArcaOS 5.0 and Firefox doesn't support playback of videos.
Related: Google CAPTCHA doesn't work => it's impossible use popular web-sites.

This is a known problem, fixed by updating to FF45.9 for now.
My latest Firefox builds are now at https://bitbucket.org/dryeo/mozilla-os2/downloads/. Using a newer compiler seems to have helped with stability.

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« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2019, 11:29:52 pm »
Here the appreciated i686 build appends entries to POPUPLOG.OS2, albeit I haven't rebooted yet. But I did type the matching SET LIBPATHSTRICT and SET BEGINLIBPATH commands before typing FIREFOX.EXE:

Code: [Select]
04-11-2019  23:18:58  SYS2070  PID 0042  TID 0001  Slot 008f
D:\FIREFOX\FIREFOX.EXE
XUL->LIBCX0._waitpid
127
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04-11-2019  23:18:58  SYS3170  PID 0042  TID 0001  Slot 008f
D:\FIREFOX\FIREFOX.EXE
c0010001
0f260740
EAX=00000000  EBX=1282eccc  ECX=00000000  EDX=00000000
ESI=1282ec3c  EDI=00000000 
DS=0053  DSACC=f0f3  DSLIM=ffffffff 
ES=0053  ESACC=f0f3  ESLIM=ffffffff 
FS=150b  FSACC=00f3  FSLIM=00000030
GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********
CS:EIP=005b:11b5c49b  CSACC=f0df  CSLIM=ffffffff
SS:ESP=0053:0019ff6c  SSACC=f0f3  SSLIM=ffffffff
EBP=0019ff78  FLG=00012293

XUL.DLL 0001:00430740
XUL.DLL is the distributed one, without markng it as 'high' yet. The LIBCX0.DLL in use is, FWIW:

17-04-18  1:29         40.345      0 a---  libcx0.dll

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Re: Firefox and youtube
« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2019, 01:04:26 am »
Yes, you need to update libcx and reboot. The one I have is dated for new years eve 2018,version 0.64-1

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« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2019, 11:19:57 am »
Solved. The only technically required change since FF 45.5 for i686+ CPUs. I didn't use the newer, experimental LIBCX0.DLL. Just curious: is the icon of FF 45.9 (i686, one (ZIP file) size fits all, including sometimes limited disk sizes) a new FF icon?

Generic remark, without FFTURBO.EXE in use: closing FF too soon after deleting the cache files, before a Pentium 4 desktop CPU calmed down, triggered the quick creation of a TRP file. Apparently in a section of code related to closing FF. Patience seems to be an obvious solution.

Dave Yeo

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« Reply #8 on: April 12, 2019, 04:15:49 pm »
The icon hasn't been changed in a while, and then it was just making it lower bit depth to work around a lxlite issue, which corrupts 32 bit colour icons.
Yes others have reported that it is best to wait till the CPU calms down before closing.

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« Reply #9 on: April 13, 2019, 05:08:01 am »
Why not take the icon that comes with the ArcaOS browser and delete the 24 bit icons and leave the 8 bit.  It still looks good on the desktop.  I have attached the icons I was talking about
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Re: Firefox and youtube
« Reply #10 on: April 13, 2019, 06:04:01 am »
Why not take the icon that comes with the ArcaOS browser and delete the 24 bit icons and leave the 8 bit.  It still looks good on the desktop.  I have attached the icons I was talking about

As far as I know, I am using the 8bit versions. Here's the ones in the source tree.
Edit, why don't mine show up here?
Edit2, OK, it is your png file that shows. Not sure how to make one.
Edit3, screen capture. Seems the nightly/thunderbird-os2.ico is broken.
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« Reply #11 on: April 13, 2019, 01:49:54 pm »
Dave

I worked on your FFnightly icon to see if it could possibly be improved.  Can't upload from work.  The differences are  that the 40x40 icon is larger and that the white pixels on the icon rims are less.  Will upload after work.  If you like the old one after seeing my modifications, just trash it.

One of the things I just learned is that jpg's are better for converting  to OS/2 icons.
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« Reply #12 on: April 13, 2019, 05:44:43 pm »
I'm sure all the icons could be improved. They're just the Windows icons converted to OS/2 format.
As I said, they have to be low colour to survive being lxlited as lxlite has a bug that corrupts high colour icons.

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« Reply #13 on: April 14, 2019, 02:23:09 am »
FWIW, I redrew the Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey icons for ArcaOS.  (They're the same design, just updated from upstream, rescaled, and touched up.)  If you have any ArcaOS DVD you can find them zipped in the \CID\SERVER\MOZILLA directory - feel free to take and use them, since obviously we have no IP claim on them.  As you say, you would probably want to delete the 24-bit devices if compiling them into the binary. 

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« Reply #14 on: April 14, 2019, 03:13:00 am »
Dave

I worked on your FFnightly icon to see if it could possibly be improved.  Can't upload from work.  The differences are  that the 40x40 icon is larger and that the white pixels on the icon rims are less.  Will upload after work.  If you like the old one after seeing my modifications, just trash it.

One of the things I just learned is that jpg's are better for converting  to OS/2 icons.
Here is the modified nightly.  Main change is that the 40x40 icon is just that and not 32x32.  Also eliminated some of the outer white pixels.