Firefox 3.0.7 has been released, and it fixes the bug described below.
Duncan Murdoch
On 1/12/2009 8:22 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 1/9/2009 11:59 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
I finally upgraded to Firefox 3.05 from 2.x, and now I can reproduce a
bug a colleague has been complaining about but which I hadn't been able
to reproduce before. In Windows, set Firefox as the default browser.
Then in Rgui (seems to affect all versions up to R-devel), use the menu
to open HTML Help, and choose "Search Engine and Keywords".
Enter a keyword (e.g. plot), and click on "Search".
Things are a lot slower than they used to be with Firefox 2, but
eventually I get a result, starting out
Search Results
The search string was "plot"
base-defunct
Defunct Functions in Base Package
expression
Unevaluated Expressions
However, the current URL is not the same as it was before: it is now
listed as
file:///<RHOME>/doc/html/index.html
so the links don't work: they are entered as
"../../../library/base/html/base-defunct.html", etc. in the source, and
the expect the current directory to be
file:///<RHOME>/doc/html/search/
If I set Internet Explorer as my default browser (yuck), things are
fine, so this is a Firefox 3 bug, or a new Java bug, or an R bug that
was masked before.
Any suggestions of workarounds?
As Brian and Marc pointed out, this is a Firefox 3.0 bug. As it turns
out, it was repaired in November, but not approved for release in 3.0.5
or 3.0.6 (due this month??). I've been told it will make it into 3.0.7.
For more on this, see
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445004
Duncan Murdoch
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