Release Firefox 13.0


I just tried this to confirm, and it happens, though it's really weird. Maybe Firefox doesn't like touch screen. Anyway, PowerGod's description may not be clear enough, so here is mine: in Firefox 13.0 (other versions untested): select some text on a page, touch and hold to show right-button menu, when the menu is shown move the pen (drag the selection). To bring back normal cursor close Firefox with Alt + F4 (Alt + Fn + F4).
 
Won't start.


I got Hotfix6.


Well FF11 didn't want to start either before at some point.
 
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I think the highlight text part is supposed to be related to the feature where if you drag highlighted text around, you see a ghost image of the text as you drag. Probably just a little bug in the way the touch screen is handled.
 
sverm said:
I think the highlight text part is supposed to be related to the feature where if you drag highlighted text around, you see a ghost image of the text as you drag. Probably just a little bug in the way the touch screen is handled.
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Even in the Download window if you drag an entry you get the same ghost image, and even here can be reproduced the bug, keep pressed until the menu appear and then drag on that menu the ghost image, the cursor will be locked.
 
Seems it can't tell the difference between "click and drag" and "click and hold to get context menu" since both pretty much involve holding down the pointer in a clicked state.
 
Link said:
Klumpen said:
Won't start.


I got Hotfix6.


Well FF11 didn't want to start either before at some point.
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Why don't you upgrade your firmware to the latest? Just cause it's a beta, i'ts OK.
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Simply because of the problems with WLAN (and USB) that many guys have gotten with it.


I remember that Yoshi still uses Hotfix5 for similar reasons.
 
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You could always try it and reflash back to HF6 if you have issues.
 
hdonk said:
Now in repo.
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Where?


edit: http://repo.openpand...refox.hdonk.500


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Fusion_Power said:
It may render pages a litle bit slow but it is stable, all the FF plugins are working and with a swap file enabled, the Browser can even handle some bigger Multimedia content pages without trouble. :)
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(this isn't necessarily directed to you Fusion)


It's unusably slow for me, especially compared to Chromium. There's no way I could tolerate it.


Where can I get information on setting up a swap file? I'd expect it to be on the wiki somewhere, but I've been unable to find it. I'll start hunting through these forums.


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I got some incomplete information:





http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?/topic/54394-guide-using-a-usb-thumb-drive-as-swap/


I'll have to do more research to find an actual guide.
 
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Well, I never tried Chromium, the version I've found for the Pandora seems to be very old and another version seems to be the entire Chromium OS what I don't need. But as soon as a clean Chrome PND is available, I'll give it a try. :)


SWAP seems to be not needed anymore in the newer Beta firmwares since it uses zRam which does an similar job. But on my Hotfix 6 Firmwre, I use a nice little tool to activate a SWAP file on SD, when I need it.


http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=swaptools-0.1-slaeshjag


Just create a swap file somewhere on the SD and then activate it. Since it is a simple tool, you have to do it everytime after restart Pandora. But it works an you don't have the swap all the time activated, which is not that good onfo flash memory based storage media. :)
 
Fusion_Power said:
SWAP seems to be not needed anymore in the newer Beta firmwares since it uses zRam which does an similar job. But on my Hotfix 6 Firmwre, I use a nice little tool to activate a SWAP file on SD, when I need it.


http://repo.openpand...s-0.1-slaeshjag


Just create a swap file somewhere on the SD and then activate it. Since it is a simple tool, you have to do it everytime after restart Pandora. But it works an you don't have the swap all the time activated, which is not that good onfo flash memory based storage media. :)
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I definitely needed to create a swap file - that PND was a fantastic aid, thanks for linking it!


Firefox is horrific without it, and quite usable with it. I'm not sure what's going on with zRam, but from what I can tell it would need a swap file of some sort to do its job.


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I'm going to be taking some time to port my desktop Firefox setup to my palmtop, and when I do I'll write up instructions on how to slim Firefox down. They've been adding a lot of "features" which are just horrific bloat. Every revision I've been finding ways of disabling the newest nonsense they add. Doing things right _will_ speed Firefox up. A whole lot.


Watch this space for that effort:


http://pandorawiki.org/Firefox
 
All versions of Firefox before this one worked perfectly with the touch screen. I never use the nubs for mouse so this crippling bug in 13 is quite an issue for me. :(


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