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Internet / Re: Firefox and disck cache - not using it, but why?
« Last post by Dariusz Piatkowski on March 01, 2026, 04:22:24 am »
Dave!

I seem to have the same behaviour here. With SM as well. Wonder if one of updates broke something.
One thing I do is keep the cache on my ram disk so as not to wear my SSD. On Firefox need to add the string preference browser.cache.disk.parent_directory and point it to where you want.
I'll keep an eye on the cache

I did quite a bit of surfing for the answer, but seeing how old our FF is very few topics were relevant. Having said that, I went through the regular suspects, such as: combination of private session setups and the previous bugs that would force the disk cache to be disabled...alas, those were actually FF releases prior to ours.

As it happens I try to do an occasional FF profile backup, but seeing as I haven't been really consistent with this (given that I do a DAILY rsync copy) the last backups I had were from Feb-2024...but no-go there, meaning, nothing was to be found in the 'cache2' subdirectory. Keep in mind though that in order to minimize the backup size I typically would purge the cache first before I ran the backup...lol, great intent, but that approach messes with our troubleshooting today!

Anyways, I did play around with re-directing to my RAMDISK, no change there.

I am going to revert to the previous cache engine setting and see if that does have any impact.
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Web applications / Re: Memcached 1.2.6
« Last post by Igor on March 01, 2026, 01:16:59 am »
Hi!

Multitasking support has ben rewriten. This paves the way for porting modern versions of the program.
Attached multi-threaded version 1.2.8.
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Internet / Re: Firefox and disck cache - not using it, but why?
« Last post by Dave Yeo on March 01, 2026, 12:09:57 am »
I seem to have the same behaviour here. With SM as well. Wonder if one of updates broke something.
One thing I do is keep the cache on my ram disk so as not to wear my SSD. On Firefox need to add the string preference browser.cache.disk.parent_directory and point it to where you want.
I'll keep an eye on the cache
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Hardware / Re: Problem with Panorama resultion
« Last post by Neil Waldhauer on February 28, 2026, 04:21:16 pm »
It may be that the PC manufacturer fixed their CSM software that provides the Video BIOS. If you can update the BIOS, it might help.
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Internet / Firefox and disk cache - not using it, but why?
« Last post by Dariusz Piatkowski on February 28, 2026, 06:04:17 am »
Hmm...so I've got what seems like a weird situations: my trusty FF 45.9 seemingly stopped using disk cache at some point in time.

Seeing as I would rarely check this, I honestly have no idea when this might have happened.

I have FF configured to automatically control the size of the disk cache, but even if I manually overwrite and force a max value, the count always stays at 0 (zero).

Hmm...indeed, looking at the FF profile directory I only find this:

Quote
Directory of G:\HOME\MOZILLA.ORG\USERPROFILES\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\p5gjgk21.Testing

 2-27-26  9:11p         <DIR>      0 ----  Cache
 2-27-26 11:44p         <DIR>      0 ----  cache2
 2-27-26 12:15p         <DIR>      0 ----  OfflineCache
 2-27-26  9:11p             1    124 a---  _CACHE_CLEAN_
        4 file(s)           1 bytes used

where: 'cache2' is what used to have all the disk cache entries, and it is empty...

HOWEVER

'Cache' does seem to have some stuff stored in it, such as:

Quote
Directory of G:\HOME\MOZILLA.ORG\USERPROFILES\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\p5gjgk21.Testing\cache

 2-27-26  9:11p         <DIR>      0 ----  .
 2-27-26 11:50p         <DIR>    388 ----  ..
 2-27-26  9:11p         <DIR>      0 ----  0
 2-27-26  9:11p         <DIR>      0 ----  1
 2-27-26  9:11p         <DIR>      0 ----  2
 2-27-26  9:11p         <DIR>      0 ----  3
 2-27-26  9:11p         <DIR>      0 ----  4
 2-27-26  9:11p         <DIR>      0 ----  5
 2-27-26  9:11p         <DIR>      0 ----  6
 2-27-26  9:11p         <DIR>      0 ----  7
 2-27-26  9:11p         <DIR>      0 ----  8
 2-27-26  9:11p         <DIR>      0 ----  9
 2-27-26  9:11p         <DIR>      0 ----  A
 2-27-26  9:11p         <DIR>      0 ----  B
 2-27-26  9:11p         <DIR>      0 ----  C
 2-27-26  9:11p         <DIR>      0 ----  D
 2-27-26  9:11p         <DIR>      0 ----  E
 2-27-26  9:11p         <DIR>      0 ----  F
 2-27-26  9:11p     4,194,304      0 a---  _CACHE_001_
 2-27-26  9:11p     4,194,304      0 a---  _CACHE_002_
 2-27-26  9:11p     4,194,304      0 a---  _CACHE_003_
 2-27-26  9:11p           276      0 a---  _CACHE_MAP_
       22 file(s)  12,583,188 bytes used

The problem being though: I have never seen 'Cache' being used before, as in none of my periodic FF Profile backups have ever showed it, nor does my FF install appear to be using this in any particular way.

The about:cache page shows the "G:\HOME\MOZILLA.ORG\USERPROFILES\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\p5gjgk21.Testing\cache2" as the proper disk cache location.

Anyways, I played around with changing various settings, the sort of OFF/ON again thing, but nothing seems to make a difference.

I'm curious if anyone has seen this behaviour before?
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Hardware / Re: Problem with Panorama resultion
« Last post by Dave Yeo on February 27, 2026, 04:11:43 am »
You might be out of luck. Panorama depends on the video bios and sometimes that video bios seems to initialize different ports differently.
Hopefully others have other ideas. I'd suggest a ticket but if you're running 5.06 you're likely out of support.
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Hardware / Problem with Panorama resultion
« Last post by Martin Vieregg on February 26, 2026, 11:56:42 pm »
My son crashed the HDMI socket of a 2560x1440 screen. The displayport socket is still intact, but my PC does not have a displayport socket. I bought a special adaper cable with a small box (in the other direction, from Displayport to HDMI, you don't need this box, an adapter cable is sufficient) and with Windows, the computer works fine. But with OS/2 (ArcaOS 5.0.6), the computer first turns to VGA and then I can choose 1920x1200 for the next reboot and this lower resultion works. I have a second screen with an intact HDMI socket. I can boot OS/2 by using HDMI and then remove the HDMI cable and switch to the adapter cable and OS/2 shows the full resolution.

So the problem is "only" an initialization problem with Panorama. I already used:
panoutil -c 2560 1440 c:
but this had no effect.

How can I force a specific resultion (on my own risk)?
Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
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Internet / Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Last post by Dave Yeo on February 26, 2026, 12:34:05 am »
It should compile to 32 bit, above the poster says he is using it on XP, which is generally 32 bit.
Problem is that it would need a lot of porting. As I mentioned, we have some of the needed stuff such as the widgets but there are classes that need porting and who knows what else. I don't have the skills to compile iceweasel, if someone else did, I could probably compile iceape and icedove. Just like with our Mozilla where once Firefox was done, I could do SM and TB, though they still have a few bugs such as oauth2 being broke.
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Programming / Re: Compiling uchardet
« Last post by TeLLie on February 25, 2026, 10:48:42 pm »
Hi Michael,
I did it some time ago.
and dint see what you show.
i use this:
#!/bin/sh
echo GCC 9.2.0 and Qt 5.15 and the Cmake 3.3125 build Environment
NCORES=$(nproc)
MAXCORES=$(( NCORES - 5 ))
NJS=$(( MAXCORES > 5 ? MAXCORES : 5 ))
mkdir cmake325-os2
cd cmake325-os2
export LDFLAGS="-Zhigh-mem -Zomf -Zmap -lcx"
export CFLAGS="-O2 -g -march=pentium4"
export CXXFLAGS="-O2 -g -march=pentium4"
export FFLAGS="-O2 -g -march=pentium4"
export FCFLAGS="-O2 -g -march=pentium4"

cmake -L .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=c:/test \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
      -DBUILD_BINARY=ON \
      -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
      -DCHECK_SSE2=ON \
      -DTARGET_ARCHITECTURE=ON \
      -Wno-dev 2>stdout 1>stderr
make -j$NJS 2>&1 |tee make.out

Not sure this will help.
What did you use..
I did v0.8
E:\uchardet-0.0.8\cmake325-os2\src\tools>uchardet.exe --version

uchardet Command Line Tool
Version 0.0.8

Authors: BYVoid, Jehan
Bug Report: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/uchardet/uchardet/-/issues

I add to ucharded.h line 47 this

#if defined(UCHARDET_SHARED) && (defined(_WIN32) || defined(__OS2__))

Regars, Tellie
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Programming / Compiling uchardet
« Last post by Michael on February 25, 2026, 09:02:32 pm »
I recently attempted to compile the uchardet library (https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/uchardet/) under OS/2. My naive attempt actually succeeded up to 95%. However, I am now stuck at the linker stage.

Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do here?

Code: [Select]
[ 95%] Linking CXX executable uchardet.exe
weakld: error: Unresolved symbol (UNDEF) '_uchardet_data_end'.
weakld: info: The symbol is referenced by:
    D:\Programs\IBMCPP\TMP\ldconv_uchardet_cpp_o_5a9699f52c51de698.obj
weakld: error: Unresolved symbol (UNDEF) '_uchardet_delete'.
weakld: info: The symbol is referenced by:
    D:\Programs\IBMCPP\TMP\ldconv_uchardet_cpp_o_5a9699f52c51de698.obj
weakld: error: Unresolved symbol (UNDEF) '_uchardet_get_charset'.
weakld: info: The symbol is referenced by:
    D:\Programs\IBMCPP\TMP\ldconv_uchardet_cpp_o_5a9699f52c51de698.obj
weakld: error: Unresolved symbol (UNDEF) '_uchardet_new'.
weakld: info: The symbol is referenced by:
    D:\Programs\IBMCPP\TMP\ldconv_uchardet_cpp_o_5a9699f52c51de698.obj
weakld: error: Unresolved symbol (UNDEF) '_uchardet_handle_data'.
weakld: info: The symbol is referenced by:
    D:\Programs\IBMCPP\TMP\ldconv_uchardet_cpp_o_5a9699f52c51de698.obj
Ignoring unresolved externals reported from weak prelinker.
Error! E2028: _uchardet_new is an undefined reference
Error! E2028: _uchardet_handle_data is an undefined reference
Error! E2028: _uchardet_data_end is an undefined reference
Error! E2028: _uchardet_get_charset is an undefined reference
Error! E2028: _uchardet_delete is an undefined reference
file D:/Programs/IBMCPP/TMP\ldconv_uchardet_cpp_o_5a9699f52c51de698.obj(ldconv_uchardet_cpp_o_5a9699f52c51de698.obj): undefined symbol _uchardet_new
file D:/Programs/IBMCPP/TMP\ldconv_uchardet_cpp_o_5a9699f52c51de698.obj(ldconv_uchardet_cpp_o_5a9699f52c51de698.obj): undefined symbol _uchardet_handle_data
file D:/Programs/IBMCPP/TMP\ldconv_uchardet_cpp_o_5a9699f52c51de698.obj(ldconv_uchardet_cpp_o_5a9699f52c51de698.obj): undefined symbol _uchardet_data_end
file D:/Programs/IBMCPP/TMP\ldconv_uchardet_cpp_o_5a9699f52c51de698.obj(ldconv_uchardet_cpp_o_5a9699f52c51de698.obj): undefined symbol _uchardet_get_charset
file D:/Programs/IBMCPP/TMP\ldconv_uchardet_cpp_o_5a9699f52c51de698.obj(ldconv_uchardet_cpp_o_5a9699f52c51de698.obj): undefined symbol _uchardet_delete
make[2]: *** [src/tools/CMakeFiles/uchardet.dir/build.make:101: src/tools/uchardet.exe] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:241: src/tools/CMakeFiles/uchardet.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:146: all] Error 2

Thanks for any hints,
Michael
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