Re: Re (5): Dying Iceweasel.

2012-06-25 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 15:26:39 -0700, peasthope wrote: > From: > Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:38:23 + (UTC) >> That they stick to the default browser (e.g., Epiphany)? Side note: when I said "e.g., Epiphany" I meant the default browser that comes with your current installation, being Epiphany fo

Re (5): Dying Iceweasel.

2012-06-24 Thread peasthope
From: Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:38:23 + (UTC) > That they stick to the default browser (e.g., Epiphany)? I just reread http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/epiphany-browser and http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/iceweasel . The first is sub-titled "Intuitive GNOME web browser". Without

Re: Re (4): Dying Iceweasel.

2012-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:17:02 -0800, peasthope wrote: (...) >> People who is interested in the Enterprise based version will know > > What about the other 90 or 99% who just want a working browser? That they stick to the default browser (e.g., Epiphany)? >> I was referring to the latest version

Re (4): Dying Iceweasel.

2012-06-22 Thread peasthope
From: Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:20:25 + (UTC) > You mean the hex code, right? Yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeric_character_reference#Example > People who is interested in the Enterprise based version will know What about the other 90 or 99% who just want a working browser? > ??

Re: Re (3): Dying Iceweasel.

2012-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:40:37 -0800, peasthope wrote: > Postscript > > From: > Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:26:49 + (UTC) >> There shouldn't be any conflicts between the security updates when >> using the backports repository... > > No /etc/apt/preferences here. Could that help? Can't tell...

Re (4): Dying Iceweasel.

2012-06-21 Thread peasthope
From: Erwan David Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:38:49 +0200 > RFC 2047 for encoding non ascii in email headers. Thanks David. I'll have to investigate, ... Peter E. -- Telephone 1 360 639 0202. Bcc: peter at easthope.ca "http://carnot.yi.org/ " "http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/inde

Re (3): Dying Iceweasel.

2012-06-21 Thread peasthope
Postscript From: Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:26:49 + (UTC) > There shouldn't be any conflicts between the security updates when using > the backports repository... No /etc/apt/preferences here. Could that help? TTFN, ... P. -- Telephone 1 360 639 0202. Bcc: peter at easthop

Re: Re (3): Dying Iceweasel.

2012-06-21 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:59:34 -0800, peasthope wrote: > From: noela...@gmail.com > Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:26:49 + (UTC) >>> From: Cam..ó.. > > That's the HTML numeric reference to miniscule oacute. You mean the hex code, right? But why your MUA renders as such? >> It seems your Oberon Ma

Re (3): Dying Iceweasel.

2012-06-21 Thread peasthope
From: noela...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:26:49 + (UTC) >> From: Cam..ó.. That's the HTML numeric reference to miniscule oacute. > It seems your Oberon Mail does not like accented characters ... According to IETF standards, how should characters beyond basic ASCII be handled?

Re: Backports and security updates; was Re(n): Dying iceweasel

2012-06-21 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:23:35 -0800, peasthope wrote: > * From: Camaleón * Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 > 14:51:49 + (UTC) >> What do you mean? Ensure that you're always running the latest >> Iceweasel (or Firefox) version available and that's all. > > Well couldn't an Iceweasel backport

Re: Re (2): Dying Iceweasel.

2012-06-21 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:17:20 -0800, peasthope wrote: > * From: Camaleón ^^ It seems you Oberon Mail does not like accented characters (or just is that listened to what I said about Oberon in the other message and now is reacting against me ;-P) >> Are you _still_

Backports and security updates; was Re(n): Dying iceweasel

2012-06-20 Thread peasthope
* From: Camaleón * Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:51:49 + (UTC) > What do you mean? Ensure that you're always running the latest Iceweasel > (or Firefox) version available and that's all. Well couldn't an Iceweasel backport be handled as a security update? Regards,...

Re (2): Dying Iceweasel.

2012-06-20 Thread peasthope
* From: Camaleón * Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 10:09:41 + (UTC) > Are you _still_ running 3.5.x? :-O > ... > Instructions for using those repos are detailed here: > > http://mozilla.debian.net/ For iceweasel, that page gives 5 choices, 3.5, esr, release, beta, aurora. I chose aurora

Re: Header fields required for threading in lists.debian.org; was Dying Iceweasel.

2012-05-31 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 31 May 2012 08:40:38 -0800, peter wrote: > CamaleA3n, > > From: Camaleon > Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 14:11:05 + (UTC) >> Let's see how this post goes out (I've just tweaked a setting within >> Pan). > > According to the principle "avoid redundant information", leaving your > mailer con

Header fields required for threading in lists.debian.org; was Dying Iceweasel.

2012-05-31 Thread peter
CamaleA3n, From: Camaleon Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 14:11:05 + (UTC) > Let's see how this post goes out (I've just tweaked a setting within Pan). According to the principle "avoid redundant information", leaving your mailer configured to not send In-reply-to is preferable. Also helpful to

Re: Re (4): Dying Iceweasel.

2012-05-31 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 30 May 2012 14:42:44 -0800, peter wrote: > From: Camaleon > Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 20:28:29 + (UTC) >> You know that Debian released versions do not get updates for their >> programs ... Iceweasel and Icedove ... live in a "special" repository >> (backports). > > The 3.5 Icedove must

Re (4): Dying Iceweasel.

2012-05-30 Thread peter
From: Camaleon Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 20:28:29 + (UTC) > You know that Debian released versions do not get updates for their > programs ... Iceweasel and Icedove ... live in a "special" repository > (backports). The 3.5 Icedove must have been the best choice when Squeeze was frozen. By

Re: Re (3): Dying Iceweasel.

2012-05-30 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 30 May 2012 12:10:36 -0800, peter wrote: >> What do you mean? > > Well if http://mozilla.debian.net/ gives 12 why does Debian Squeeze give > only 3.5? Is no version later than 3.5 suitable for the Squeeze > repository? You know that Debian released versions do not get updates for their

Re (3): Dying Iceweasel.

2012-05-30 Thread peter
From: Camaleon Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:51:49 + (UTC) > So now both are using 12.0, that's good but... is still crashing? The desktop machine is OK. Hopefully the Toshiba Armada is also. Not sure yet. As mentioned it is about 40 km from here and I don't have graphical remote access.

Re: Re (2): Dying Iceweasel.

2012-05-30 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 29 May 2012 14:07:06 -0800, peter wrote: > From: Camaleon > Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 10:09:41 + (UTC) >> Instructions for using those repos are detailed here: >> http://mozilla.debian.net/ > > Thanks. So now the two systems are more similar. > http://carnot.yi.org/ArmadaPackages > htt

Re (2): Dying Iceweasel.

2012-05-29 Thread peter
From: Camaleon Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 10:09:41 + (UTC) > Instructions for using those repos are detailed here: > http://mozilla.debian.net/ Thanks. So now the two systems are more similar. http://carnot.yi.org/ArmadaPackages http://carnot.yi.org/DaltonPackages > Wow... and you wonder

Re: Dying Iceweasel.

2012-05-26 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 26 May 2012 10:09:41 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 25 May 2012 11:11:08 -0700, Peter Easthope wrote: (...) >> whereas, >> peter@armada:~$ dpkg -l iceweasel | grep ice >> rc iceweasel 3.5.16-15 Web browser based on Firefox . > > Are you _still_ running 3.5.x? :-O Mmm, wait. I di

Re: Dying Iceweasel.

2012-05-26 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 May 2012 11:11:08 -0700, Peter Easthope wrote: > On 25/05/12 09:49 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> Running testing is not a guaratee for having the latest versions of the >> programs, you have to check by your own, for instance, Wheezy has >> Icewasel 10.0 while Firefox is now 12 (so you can sti

Re: Dying Iceweasel.

2012-05-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 26/05/12 04:11, Peter Easthope wrote: > peter@armada:~$ dpkg -l iceweasel | grep ice rc iceweasel 3.5.16-15 > Web browser based on Firefox . > aptitude declines to update iceweasel claiming that the source is > untrusted. @armada:~# wget -O- -q http://mozilla.debian.net/archive.asc | gp

Re: Dying Iceweasel.

2012-05-25 Thread Peter Easthope
On 25/05/12 09:49 AM, Camaleón wrote: Running testing is not a guaratee for having the latest versions of the programs, you have to check by your own, for instance, Wheezy has Icewasel 10.0 while Firefox is now 12 (so you can still test with Firefox 12 -download and run- and see what happens) and

Re: Dying Iceweasel.

2012-05-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 May 2012 09:17:08 -0700, Peter Easthope wrote: > On 25/05/12 06:36 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> This one? >> https://login.skype.com/intl/es/account/signup-form > > It was a long ugly thing containing unpronounceable strings. The Armada > is about 40 km away and I can't reproduce the URI imm

Re: Dying Iceweasel.

2012-05-25 Thread Peter Easthope
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 14:19:38 +1000 Scott Ferguson wrote, > I can't duplicate your problem... why don't you bypass the monkey and go to:- https://login.skype.com/account/signup-form > no ffflash required there > no long URL either. That works; but other pages also crashed iceweasel and the

Re: Dying Iceweasel.

2012-05-25 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 24 May 2012 09:06:41 -0700, Peter Easthope wrote: > Two systems here with current Squeeze. One is a Compaq Armada E500; the > other a generic desktop machine with a Foxconn board. Try this in each. > In iceweasel, google "site:skype.com create account" and attempt to > open the account

Re: Dying Iceweasel.

2012-05-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/05/12 02:06, Peter Easthope wrote: > Two systems here with current Squeeze. One is a Compaq Armada E500; the > other a generic desktop machine with a Foxconn board. Try this in each. > In iceweasel, google "site:skype.com create account" and attempt to > open the account creation page. Th

Re (2): Dying Iceweasel.

2012-05-24 Thread peter
From: Arnt Karlsen Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 03:02:02 +0200 > ..a WAG: 'aptitude purge flashplugin-nonfree \ > &&aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree ' and > try the page again, could be they require a new > flash version. These systems have flashplayer-mozilla. I can try reinstalling that.

Re: Dying Iceweasel.

2012-05-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 24 May 2012 09:06:41 -0700, Peter wrote in message <4fbe5c91.8070...@shaw.ca>: > Two systems here with current Squeeze. One is a Compaq Armada E500; > the other a generic desktop machine with a Foxconn board. Try this > in each. In iceweasel, google "site:skype.com create account" and >

Dying Iceweasel.

2012-05-24 Thread Peter Easthope
Two systems here with current Squeeze. One is a Compaq Armada E500; the other a generic desktop machine with a Foxconn board. Try this in each. In iceweasel, google "site:skype.com create account" and attempt to open the account creation page. The URI is too long to mention. In the Foxconn