On Thursday 10 August 2017 14:48:52 MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: > Hi, > > I am not sure I understand your mail in details. What I can say is > that we tried building against gtk2 and it works. It is just a build > option switch to change. Why do you think Debian package will not do > it? > It hasn't played a video, except some commercials in front of the video in several weeks. I can't download the binary from mozilla because its built against gtk3, and the dependency's it needs are not available in the wheezy repo's. I haven't tried to build from src, no clue where to get it even.
Why should I have to build FF from src, this isn't gentoo or arch? I have got chromium working in its place for everything but banking. I can and now have, bought several things online using chromium. > Regards, > > Le 10/08/2017 à 20:31, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > On Thursday 10 August 2017 13:05:02 MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> > >> It is a known bug we reported under number 870719. The problem is > >> that this release builds against GTK3 and, in stable releases > >> (including oldstable), it is a problem. The solution we suggest to > >> the maintainer, and known to work), is building against GTK2 as > >> Thunderbird 45 was. We are waiting for maintainers feedbacks, as we > >> really think it is a debian-specific bug. Debian does not have to > >> build against GTK3 and should not, given problems in display. > >> > >> > >> Regards, > > > > In this old farts mind, gtk3 should been still born. gtk2 left one > > heck of a legacy code base behind and they won't let us use it > > anymore even on wheezy. Thats about the same vacuum suckage as > > halfway to Alpha Centari. > > > >> Le 10/08/2017 à 18:29, Gene Heskett a écrit : > >>> On Thursday 10 August 2017 11:08:44 Joe wrote: > >>>> On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 10:24:43 -0400 > >>>> > >>>> Jape Person <jap...@comcast.net> wrote: > >>>>> After this upgrade > >>>>> > >>>>> thunderbird:amd64 (1:52.2.1-4, 1:52.2.1-4+b1) > >>>>> > >>>>> Thunderbird in Cinnamon DE is almost completely useless because > >>>>> portions of its windows / text / toolbars don't repaint until > >>>>> the window is resized. Is anyone else seeing this? > >>>>> > >>>>> Using different desktop themes or logging in as a different user > >>>>> results in same behavior. > >>>>> > >>>>> I'm curious to know whether this is being seen in different > >>>>> desktop environments, too. > >>>> > >>>> Not only that, but not just Thunderbird, Firefox also trashed. > >>>> > >>>> New update today OK. > >>>> > >>>> Never just have one mail client or one browser installed, at > >>>> least not in Sid... > >>> > >>> Despite a mozilla-flash update this AM, firefox is still DIW, will > >>> not play a video, not even the commercial in front of it. Using > >>> chromium for my default browser now. > >>> > >>> Do I detect an effort to kill mozilla/firefox? It has not worked > >>> for any videos but you-tubes in 6 months. And for the last several > >>> weeks, not even there, as the debian version has no html5 support > >>> according the window the video is supposed to play in. > >>> > >>> Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
