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tlmaiden

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Registered: 2014-09-19

Posts: 4

Midori and Tazweb in the current rolling ISO

I have been running the latest RC-2 and Rolling ISOs inside QEMU.  Some problems have occured with using these browsers with www.aol.com and mail.aol.com.  With the Midori installed in the current Rolling ISO the images being displayed by AOL are getting scrambled.  Also it appears that the area along the top of the window is being filled with random characters, they appear to be Chinese or Japanese characters.  This is also occuring in AOL Mail.  With Tazweb I am unable to display the page showing the waiting messages.  It just goes blank.  This is with Tazweb and AOL Mail.  These problems are not occuring with the RC-2 ISO.  I have downloaded a second copy of the Rolling ISO and the problem still there.  It happens when I use either dial-up or Wi-Fi (at the local Library).  I use AOL Mail a lot and this is very annoying.  Thanks.

brainlessmutant

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Registered: 2014-08-04

Posts: 40

Re: Midori and Tazweb in the current rolling ISO

I have the same problem with tazweb and midori, I guess it's a problem with webkit... maybe related to the graphic drivers...

I just post something related about tazweb (not about image scrambled, but invisible text) :

http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/no-more-removable-devices-other-partitions-and-trash-in-pcmanfm#post-34038

tlmaiden

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Registered: 2014-09-19

Posts: 4

Re: Midori and Tazweb in the current rolling ISO

I noticed that the Rolling version changed the day after I downloaded the one I had problems with.  So I tried the new version, same problem with AOL.COM and MAIL.AOL.COM.  Now this might be a problem with Midori not Slitaz so maybe a flavor with Firefox might meet my needs.  The RC-2 does not have problem.  I will go back to using 2.0 and 3.0-xvesa versions of Slitaz as they are fast and the browsers installed in them work well.

I have also tried different versions of QEMU and the problems persist in all of them.

(Please don't suggest I not use QEMU and/or AOL.  That's a non-starter.)

az_ua

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Registered: 2014-05-02

Posts: 284

Re: Midori and Tazweb in the current rolling ISO

This issue resolved.

Midori and Tazweb uses cairo lib to render images and text.

Old version of cairo 1.12.2 from RC2 iso has only invisible text bug ({functions} at cooker/receipt, github and more)

cairo was updated to 1.12.10 - in addition to above described this version contains one more bug in images rendering.

To fix both of this problems "cairo" package was recompiled with [c]--enable-xlib-xcb[/c]. This is disabled-by-default configure option, I can't found it in any rpm-specs, deb-rules, pkbuilds etc.

This makes default browsers usable, but described as "experimental" and  cairo package became smaller in 20kb. So, testing required, google said about some problems in GIMP with enable-xlib-xcb. In future cairo should be updated to 1.12.14 with disabled "experimental xlib-xcb" option and bunch of patches.

tlmaiden

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Registered: 2014-09-19

Posts: 4

Re: Midori and Tazweb in the current rolling ISO

I have tested the latest Rolling version and the problem with Midori and TazWeb has disappeared.  Whatever changes made worked as far as AOL.COM and MAIL.AOL.COM.  The latest Rolling version also seems faster than previous "test" versions.  Maybe rename it the "RC-3" version?