From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 4 12:30:22 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8599B106566C for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2012 12:30:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@noos.larseighner.com) Received: from emailserver2.asdf456.com (emailserver2.asdf456.com [72.18.207.139]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C0B68FC15 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2012 12:30:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 23973 invoked by uid 0); 4 Jul 2012 12:30:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO noos.larseighner.com) (71.20.75.102) by emailserver2.asdf456.com with SMTP; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 05:30:14 -0700 Received: by noos.larseighner.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 lars@noos.larseighner.com; Wed, 4 Jul 2012 07:29:53 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 07:29:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner To: Subhro Sankha Kar In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20120703154455.GA1546@oshi.local> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Tobias Rehbein , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Tweetless X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:30:22 -0000 On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Subhro Sankha Kar wrote: > On 04-Jul-2012, at 1:59 AM, Lars Eighner wrote: > >> On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Subhro Sankha Kar wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> On 03-Jul-2012, at 9:14 PM, Tobias Rehbein wrote: >>> >>>> Am Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 01:04:07AM -0500 schrieb Lars Eighner: >>>>> >>>>> Call me crazy, but it seems that since the perl bump (5.12 -> threaded-5.16) >>>>> when firefox (13.0.1,1) got rebuilt, it seems twitter pages do not fully >>>>> load, give me the slow loading banner, and the page (not browser or X) >>>>> freezes, but no such problems were evident before, and twitter seems >>>>> entirely normal in Opera 12.00. >>> >>>> >>>> Disabling SPDY in about:config (a solution proposed on the net) didn't fix >>>> this issue. >>> >>> >> >> Another thing that doesn't work is rebuilding firefox from the ground up >> with portupgrade -fR firefox. > > Where does it burp? Can you post, say, the last 10-15 lines of the compile? Oh, no, the rebuilds go perfectly. What I meant was, it does not work to solve the problem. >> >>> Can you post the contents of about:config and also try to launch FF from >>> command line and see if there is anything interesting reported back? Also, I hope you do not have any funky CFLAGS set in your make.conf? >> >> Of course firefox will not run from the command line ("Error: no display >> specified"), but there are no messages as firefox fails repeated to load >> twitter pages fully when firefox is launched in an xterm. > > Sorry for the ambiguity, I indeed meant to launch FF from xterm (or some equivalent Terminal Emulator in X) and report back the error. But since you say there is no problem with that, guess things should be good. > >> >> make.conf: >> >> QT4_OPTIONS= CUPS >> WITH_GCC = yes >> # added by use.perl 2012-07-03 02:17:12 >> PERL_VERSION=5.16.0 > > This looks pretty generic, so nothing to complain about. > >> >> >> I hate GUIs, so my mouse-fu skills are not good enough to copy about.config, >> but here is a "save as" > > > > Okay, try this out. Go to preferences and disable "hardware acceleration". > Also go to about:config and search for "gfx". Set the property > "gfx.direct2d.disabled" to true. Bounce the browser and go to > "about:support". At the bottom of the page, "GPU Accelerated Windows" > should read "0/1". See if that makes a difference. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266