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Re: Firefox 3.0 for Solaris 10 are available
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Jul 1, 2008 11:04 PM
in response to: alfred
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On Jul 2, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Alfred Peng wrote: 3. Enable jemalloc developed by Ginn: < /div>Not me. I'm just doing the porting job.
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-------- Ginn Chen Software Engineer, Browser Team Sun Microsystems, Inc. Phone: x82869 / +86-10-62673869 Fax: +86-10-62780969
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Re: Firefox 3.0 for Solaris 10 are available
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Jul 2, 2008 6:29 AM
in response to: ginnchen
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A new build already? You guys are good. Really good.
A huge thank you to Alfred and Ginn (and others) from all Solaris users!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Firefox 3.0 for Solaris 10 are available
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Jul 2, 2008 9:52 AM
in response to: alfred
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Hi Alfred,
I was enjoying the most recent build of FX 3 for Solaris, and I experienced repeated crashing related to the RealPlayer 10 plugin which is included in Sol 10 11/06 in /usr/lib/RealPlay. In the FX 3 plugins directory, I had made symbolic links to the .so and .xpt files in the mozilla directory of the realplayer installation, as I have for Mozilla 1.7 and FX 2. The following URL will crash FX 3 badly:
http://www.digital-one.fi/realplayer.html
This link worked fine in your previous Minefield build of FX3, in FX 2, and in Mozilla.
Now, I hate realplayer with a mad passion. However, I thought I would pass my experience on to you, as there seems to be a change in behavior regarding realplayer 10 between the test build and the current build, and this could point to other issues. Does the above URL work for you with the realplayer 10 plugin installed in FX 3?
The readme for the TJHSST build of FX 3 states:
RealPlayer:
The RealPlayer 10 Mozilla plugin does not work with this build. You need at
least RealPlayer 11 to use the plugin.
1. Download RealPlayer from http://www.real.com/
2. Create a directory and extract the tarball in that directory.
3a. Run Bin/install to use the automated installer
OR
3b:
cd /path/to/<Firefox install location>/plugins
ln -s /path/to/<RealPlayer install location>/mozilla/nphelix.so
ln -s /path/to/<RealPlayer install location>/mozilla/nphelix.xpt
ln -s /path/to/<RealPlayer install location>/realplay /usr/bin/realplay
NOTE: You may need to define HELIX_LIBS in /path/to/<RealPlayer install
location>/realplay script to /path/to/<RealPlayer install
location>.
I cannot get rp 11 to work correctly on my sparc box. The realplay script must be modified to export HELIX_LIBS and localization (URL-8), and even then I can't get any real movies or sound clips to play properly in FX 3 using the rp 11 plugins.
Do you recommend rp 10 or rp 11 to work with the current FX 3 build? Or do you suggest avoiding any version of realplayer?
Thank you...
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Re: Firefox 3.0 for Solaris 10 are available
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Jul 3, 2008 2:42 AM
in response to: sparcman
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Hi sparcmaster,
Just tried this on two boxes here. I don't have a crash here.
On SPARC, Firefox will hang sometimes. And in some other cases, Firefox
can play the test case you provided but the Firefox GUI have no response
to my input(mouse and keyboard).
On x86, almost the same, just I can play the test case and the Firefox
GUI can still response to user input in some cases.
Also tried to use rp 11, but failed...
Maybe the realplayer guys can shed some light on this issue.
Cheers,
-Alfred
> Hi Alfred,
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> I was enjoying the most recent build of FX 3 for Solaris, and I experienced repeated crashing related to the RealPlayer 10 plugin which is included in Sol 10 11/06 in /usr/lib/RealPlay. In the FX 3 plugins directory, I had made symbolic links to the .so and .xpt files in the mozilla directory of the realplayer installation, as I have for Mozilla 1.7 and FX 2. The following URL will crash FX 3 badly:
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> http://www.digital-one.fi/realplayer.html
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> This link worked fine in your previous Minefield build of FX3, in FX 2, and in Mozilla.
>
> Now, I hate realplayer with a mad passion. However, I thought I would pass my experience on to you, as there seems to be a change in behavior regarding realplayer 10 between the test build and the current build, and this could point to other issues. Does the above URL work for you with the realplayer 10 plugin installed in FX 3?
>
> The readme for the TJHSST build of FX 3 states:
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> RealPlayer:
>
> The RealPlayer 10 Mozilla plugin does not work with this build. You need at
> least RealPlayer 11 to use the plugin.
>
> 1. Download RealPlayer from http://www.real.com/
> 2. Create a directory and extract the tarball in that directory.
> 3a. Run Bin/install to use the automated installer
> OR
> 3b:
> cd /path/to/<Firefox install location>/plugins
> ln -s /path/to/<RealPlayer install location>/mozilla/nphelix.so
> ln -s /path/to/<RealPlayer install location>/mozilla/nphelix.xpt
> ln -s /path/to/<RealPlayer install location>/realplay /usr/bin/realplay
> NOTE: You may need to define HELIX_LIBS in /path/to/<RealPlayer install
> location>/realplay script to /path/to/<RealPlayer install
> location>.
>
> I cannot get rp 11 to work correctly on my sparc box. The realplay script must be modified to export HELIX_LIBS and localization (URL-8), and even then I can't get any real movies or sound clips to play properly in FX 3 using the rp 11 plugins.
>
> Do you recommend rp 10 or rp 11 to work with the current FX 3 build? Or do you suggest avoiding any version of realplayer?
>
> Thank you...
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Re: Firefox 3.0 for Solaris 10 are available
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Jul 3, 2008 7:06 AM
in response to: alfred
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Realplayer for Solaris is a coding disaster, especially version 11. It seems like they have no quality assurance testing at all. The realplay script that comes with 11 must be modified for it work.
FX 3 is very iffy when the reaplayer plugin is invoked. Sometimes it works, sometimes it hands, sometimes crashes. It usually makes FX 3 unstable when invoked, and FX 3 often dumps core when closed after realplayer plugin was invoked.
Thanks, Alfred for trying it out.
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Re: Firefox 3.0 for Solaris 10 are available
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Jul 3, 2008 10:30 PM
in response to: sparcman
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Barnaby W. Rockwell wrote:
> Realplayer for Solaris is a coding disaster, especially version 11. It seems like they have no quality assurance testing at all. The realplay script that comes with 11 must be modified for it work.
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> FX 3 is very iffy when the reaplayer plugin is invoked. Sometimes it works, sometimes it hands, sometimes crashes. It usually makes FX 3 unstable when invoked, and FX 3 often dumps core when closed after realplayer plugin was invoked.
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> Thanks, Alfred for trying it out.
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Realplayer 11 is released before FF3 release, we only test its plugins
in ff2.
that's why you met these problem.
Thanks for providing such a testcase.
I will verify it.
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Re: Firefox 3.0 for Solaris 10 are available
Posted:
Jul 4, 2008 7:38 AM
in response to: jerrytan
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Thank you, Jerrytan. Some of the problems regarding the use of rp 11 plugins in FX 3 may be related to my modifications of the realplay script. The script will not run at all unless it is modified to export HELIX_LIBS and the English utf-8 localization. I tried modifying it the best I could, but without instructions, I can only guess at how to do it. You could probably do a better job at modifying it than me, and that will possibly make it work better with FX 3.
I get a core dump of rp 11 practically every time I close the player by clicking on the close button at upper right after the player has been invoked by FX 3.
The thing is, the rp 10 plugins seem to work much better in FX 2 for Solaris than FX 3, with less frequent core dumps.
Please let me know if I can help you test anything. Other than with the realplayer plugins, FX 3 for Solaris runs beautifully.
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Re: Firefox 3.0 for Solaris 10 are available
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Jul 10, 2008 2:28 AM
in response to: sparcman
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Barnaby W. Rockwell wrote:
> Jerrytan,
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> Here are some more URLs for testing Realplayer:
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> http://www.at.northwestern.edu/realtest/
> http://www.slp3d2.com/sfi_1013/docs/test.html
> http://service.real.com/realplayer/test/
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> The first one will play properly with 2 panes (movie in left, static image in right) only with rp 11. Only one the left-hand movie pane is displayed in rp 10.
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Thank, I will test them carefully.
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Re: Firefox 3.0 for Solaris 10 are available
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Jul 10, 2008 6:59 AM
in response to: jerrytan
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Thank you, jerrytan. After much testing, best results for using realplayer with FX 3 for Solaris 10 can be achieved by using the rp11 plugins, but with the rp10 player in your PATH. Most test case rp videos can then be viewed with no problems. More good test cases can be found with the older (~2003-2004 vintage) videos at
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/
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