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Internet / Re: Firefox - 45.9.0 for OS/2 GA1.1...anyone...anyone???
« on: July 23, 2018, 07:12:42 pm »
Tested running SeaMonkey from the ram drive, not much faster here as the bottleneck is all the windows and tabs I have open, it peaks one core for a couple of minutes.
What did help was defragging my profile by moving it to a different partition and back. It also helps that it has its own partition. In a default install with MOZILLA_HOME=HOME and installed on the boot drive, room can get tight and things like places.sqlite can get pretty fragmented. Same with large mailboxes.

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Internet / Re: Firefox - 45.9.0 for OS/2 GA1.1...anyone...anyone???
« on: July 23, 2018, 01:59:20 am »
You should be able to copy it to any directory and as long as you run the firefox.exe you copied, it should work. Looks in ..\lib\firefox-45.9.0 and . for its DLLs.
SeaMonkey xul.dll is 44 MBs, and 464 MBs before lxlite removes the debug stuff and compresses it.

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Internet / Re: Firefox - 45.9.0 for OS/2 GA1.1...anyone...anyone???
« on: July 22, 2018, 07:37:10 pm »
@Olafur, there is no problem with licensing, the GCC libs are GPL with a linking exception and everything else is more permissive. Those libraries that need an offer of source, well there are source RPMs that are hosted besides the regular RPMs.

@Ivan, the problem is that the direction that Bitwise took with development has resulted in a whole mess of DLLs. I'll attach the DLL tree for the latest Firefox. Some of these DLLs have to be the latest versions as some fixes for Firefox have been applied to them and there are enough inter-dependencies that it quickly can turn into a nightmare manually updating and keeping track of versions. This isn't helped by our old systems DLL support. 8.3 names that have to correspond to the internal name though there is a push to put bldlevel info in all the binaries, they don't all have it yet and some may never get it.
I don't really like how development has gone but it is what we have and without Bitwise, our system would be a lot more out of date and less useful.

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Internet / Re: Firefox - 45.9.0 for OS/2 GA1.1...anyone...anyone???
« on: July 22, 2018, 07:22:53 pm »
Looks like that libcx0.dll is the problem, but I might be wrong.

LIBCX0    0001:00009970
EXCEPTQ   0001:00001270  MYHANDLER
LIBC066   0001:000111E4  between __init + C4 and __ctype - 40C
LIBCX0    0001:00009CE1
LIBC066   0001:00046D10  _libc_Back_exceptionHandler
LIBC066   0001:00011172  between __init + 52 and __ctype - 47E
LIBC066   0001:0002887B  between __init_app + B and _sys_init_ret - 1
DOSCALL1  0004:0000C188

I have still a P4 system and as mentioned before, there is no libcx0.dll compiled for P4. May be that's the problem.

The exception handler crashed, probably due to Firefox crashing in such a way that the stack or such was corrupted, and since exceptq is supported through libcx... Really you should also have the debug info for libcx to be sure.
BTW, the P4 runs i686 code fine, though perhaps a bit slower and for some programs, P4 will use things like SSE which also helps performance.

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Applications / Re: Unicode Images on Firefox
« on: July 21, 2018, 07:33:45 pm »
Well depending on jurisdiction, that would probably be considered fair use and/or slide by as being none commercial, which the license allows.
There's also the point that it is usually only if the copyright owner decides to sue or prosecute that copyright comes into play.
The problem comes if someone like Arca Noae starts including the fonts (version licensed for non-commercial use) in ArcaOS and the author doesn't like that. Even if Arca Noae could win, it's a big hassle and likely expensive to go to court and America has some pretty draconian copyright laws.
One way around it could be for Arca Noae to have a script that when clicked, pointed out the license, and if the user agrees, download and install the fonts.

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Internet / Re: New SeaMonkey builds
« on: July 21, 2018, 04:29:59 pm »
Which settings, with an installed dictionary add-on, are required to force a website's MLE to use the right language?

In this case a dictionary language being "right" may be defined by e.g. a phpBB website's <html lang="de"> setting.

Not sure exactly what you mean but under Preferences-->Browser-->Languages you can change the order of how dictionaries are checked.
Our language support has been a bit mickey moused to keep code page support so it is quite possible there are bugs.

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Internet / Re: Security Certs
« on: July 20, 2018, 02:19:22 am »
http://os2news.warpstock.org/Warpzilla.html should have zips of all the needed DLLs.
For the hell of it, I might try recompiling FF17 tonight just to see if it will compile with GCC 4.92 and link against the RPM installed NSS. Be interesting how fast it builds, the latest takes a good 3 hours with my current 2.4Ghz quad core C2D.

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Internet / Re: Security Certs
« on: July 19, 2018, 05:46:02 pm »
I don't think so without recompiling and linking against the system NSS (and NSPR) library and I'm not sure if that is possible.
You could try replacing cert8.db in your profile with one from a newer Firefox. Make sure you back up your profile first. Unluckily I don't think that'll help with the root certificates and I'm not even sure if FF17 can support the newer security features out of the box.

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General Discussion / Re: Display issue !
« on: July 19, 2018, 07:02:45 am »
I get similar after running Mozilla apps for a while. Here I've always assumed it was from running out of low memory.

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Internet / Re: New SeaMonkey builds
« on: July 19, 2018, 02:21:11 am »
Bit surprising that the hosts file made that much difference.
One thing that does make a difference here is what page is displayed. This page, with scripts disabled, gives about 3% on one core with the others offline. If I go to the "Show unread posts since last visit" page, CPU usage goes way up with peeks that would be about 120% if on one core. It's strange as the page is simple.

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Applications / Re: Unicode Images on Firefox
« on: July 18, 2018, 01:00:31 am »
Actually if you look at the included PDF and click the licence URL, Symbola is only free to use for personal use. http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/License.pdf is linked from http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ which is linked from the included PDF.
I hate licensing like this as the PDF says one thing and the authours web site says something else.

edit: It may be that the earlier versions such as 9.17 linked from http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_index.html is free for any use whereas the newest version 11 is not. Still not very clear and I'm sure Arca Noae for example wouldn't carry them without more clear licensing.

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@Remy. Which driver are you using? It might be worth trying some alternatives and/or opening an issue at Arca Noae. I'm currently using a Realtek® 8111 Gigabit LAN or such and get not bad speeds with the mmre driver but I understand Realtek changes things often and sometimes different drivers are better.

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speedtest-cli will find the closest server, based on ping. Not the most accurate as it claims the server is only 1.55 km away, when Vancouver is 80 kms away, perhaps 100km by fibre.
Quote
E:\test>python speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Telus Communications (209.52.88.204)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Skyway West Business Internet Services (Vancouver, BC) [1.55 km]: 56.0
 ms
Testing download speed..........................................................
......................
Download: 22.92 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed............................................................
....................................
Upload: 2.20 Mbit/s

Not too bad for wireless LTE connection. Gets much slower in the evening when everyone is watching netflix etc.

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Applications / Re: Unicode Images on Firefox
« on: July 17, 2018, 01:36:04 am »
You need the fonts installed. I just installed http://xahlee.info/comp/i/Symbola.zip and now all the fonts except one display.
To install, you can do it the regular way or copy them to a directory which fontconfig checks for fonts and run fc-cache -f and then restart the browser.
Fontconfig uses @UNIXROOT/etc/fonts/fonts.conf to read where the fonts are installed, including the special OS2FONTDIR, which actually reads the ini files to get the installed fonts.
I added a line,
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<dir>e:/psfonts</dir> under the Font directory list area to pick up all the fonts that I installed under Warp v4 when we were first getting mzfntcfgft to work.
fc-list will list the fonts that fontconfig sees, best to pipe it to less or a file,
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fc-list | less

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Found this for testing,
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wget -O speedtest-cli https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py
python speedtest-cli

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