Re: Another appeal about Flaky browsers

2016-07-28 Thread Ric Moore
On 07/28/2016 11:31 AM, Alan McConnell wrote: Have you started it in "safe-mode"? Mo problems with it running sid and chrome directly installed from google. Ric I have to call chromium from the command-line. I have just tried 'chromium -safe-mode &'. It runs fine for a wh

Re: Another appeal about Flaky browsers

2016-07-28 Thread Alan McConnell
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 05:50:36PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On 07/27/2016 05:38 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > >The rest of us aren't having the problem, so it must be something in Alan's > >personal set-up or config files. Having said which, I do find that Google > >Chrome is currently eating memory

Re: Another appeal about Flaky browsers

2016-07-27 Thread limpia
On 2016-07-27 16:38, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 27 July 2016 22:18:36 Felix Miata wrote: Alan McConnell composed on 2016-07-27 16:07 (UTC-0400): > I wrote about this a while ago, but have to repeat my appeal. > > Under jessie all the gui browsers I have tried(iceweasel and > chromium) cras

Re: Another appeal about Flaky browsers

2016-07-27 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 27 July 2016 23:01:20 Felix Miata wrote: > Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-07-27 22:38 (UTC+0100): > >> so is the problem shortage of memory? > > Memory shortage normally only produces slowdowns (due to swapping), not > crashing or failing even to start. So that is not Alan's problem. I

Re: Another appeal about Flaky browsers

2016-07-27 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 27 July 2016 22:50:36 Ric Moore wrote: > On 07/27/2016 05:38 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > The rest of us aren't having the problem, so it must be something in > > Alan's personal set-up or config files. Having said which, I do find > > that Google Chrome is currently eating memory like t

Re: Another appeal about Flaky browsers

2016-07-27 Thread Felix Miata
Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-07-27 22:38 (UTC+0100): so is the problem shortage of memory? Memory shortage normally only produces slowdowns (due to swapping), not crashing or failing even to start. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16

Re: Another appeal about Flaky browsers

2016-07-27 Thread Ric Moore
On 07/27/2016 05:38 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: The rest of us aren't having the problem, so it must be something in Alan's personal set-up or config files. Having said which, I do find that Google Chrome is currently eating memory like there is no tomorrow, so is the problem shortage of memory? Ha

Re: Another appeal about Flaky browsers

2016-07-27 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 27 July 2016 22:18:36 Felix Miata wrote: > Alan McConnell composed on 2016-07-27 16:07 (UTC-0400): > > I wrote about this a while ago, but have to repeat my appeal. > > > > Under jessie all the gui browsers I have tried(iceweasel and > > chromium) crash continually, with messages "We

Re: Another appeal about Flaky browsers

2016-07-27 Thread Felix Miata
Alan McConnell composed on 2016-07-27 16:07 (UTC-0400): I wrote about this a while ago, but have to repeat my appeal. Under jessie all the gui browsers I have tried(iceweasel and chromium) crash continually, with messages "Well, this is embarrassing" and "Aw, snap" continually appearing. T

Re: Another appeal about Flaky browsers

2016-07-27 Thread Ric Moore
On 07/27/2016 04:07 PM, Alan McConnell wrote: Alan, whose animus against Debian is increasing hourly because of the wretched failures of the jessie installation Got a big harddrive?? Could you create another partition and install Jessie clean to it? You might have some cruft left over from

Re: Another appeal about Flaky browsers

2016-07-27 Thread Haines Brown
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 04:07:55PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > I wrote about this a while ago, but have to repeat my appeal. > > Under jessie all the gui browsers I have tried(iceweasel and > chromium) crash continually, with messages "Well, this is embarrassing" > and "Aw, snap" continually

Another appeal about Flaky browsers

2016-07-27 Thread Alan McConnell
I wrote about this a while ago, but have to repeat my appeal. Under jessie all the gui browsers I have tried(iceweasel and chromium) crash continually, with messages "Well, this is embarrassing" and "Aw, snap" continually appearing. This happened only rarely with jessie's predecessor, wheezy.