tips for Opera users

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Jim Kronebusch wrote:

> Thanks for all your testing Gavin.  I could compile granparadiso last
> night but it didn't seem to apply the patches.  If you would want to post
> a howto with applying the patch that would be great, then I could play
> with those numbers as you suggest.

I think you got the howto further on in the thread.

One thing I noted was that these rather ordinary-looking pages have
crashed[1] the patched granparadiso browser several times. You might want
to test them when you build yours.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=827&num=1
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/

Either the patch isn't too stable, or the firefox-granparadiso package
isn't.

> Non-Gecko based browsers do not cache the pixmaps at all.  Opera is
> actually faster than Firefox in displaying that page and does not put any
> load on the client.  This makes me think that there needs to be a way to
> disable it completely.

Maybe, but how difficult it is to do and how firefox will perform is hard
to say -- on most ordinary pages, there has been little or no speed
difference since the patch, but image heavy ones seem a little more
trouble.  I guess dropping that timeout value to something like 200 (0.2
sec) would come close to no caching.

Bear in mind that the granparadiso package adds itself independent of
firefox.  I don't think you'll be able to remove the firefox v2 package.

Gavin

[1] console error from crashes:

gavinmc at boing:~$ firefox-granparadiso http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/
GTK Accessibility Module initialized

(Gecko:1797): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:2271: signal name
`text_changed::delete' is invalid for instance `0x1054f70'

(Gecko:1797): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:2271: signal name
`text_changed::insert' is invalid for instance `0x1054f70'

(Gecko:1797): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:2271: signal name
`text_changed::insert' is invalid for instance `0x1f539e0'

(Gecko:1797): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:2271: signal name
`text_changed::insert' is invalid for instance `0x1f539e0'
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

gavinmc at boing:~$ firefox-granparadiso 'http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=827&num=1'
GTK Accessibility Module initialized

(Gecko:1912): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:2271: signal name
`text_changed::delete' is invalid for instance `0x1057f70'

(Gecko:1912): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:2271: signal name
`text_changed::insert' is invalid for instance `0x1057f70'

(Gecko:1912): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:2271: signal name
`text_changed::insert' is invalid for instance `0x1bc8280'

(Gecko:1912): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:2271: signal name
`text_changed::insert' is invalid for instance `0x1bc8280'

(Gecko:1912): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:2271: signal name
`text_changed::insert' is invalid for instance `0x1bc84a0'
Segmentation fault (core dumped)