Browser widget on linux

[panagiotis merakos]

Hi all,

All those problems are essentially caused by the same underlying issue,
which seems to be locale-related.

In comment 81 (!!) of this report
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16848, a community member has
found a workaround, which seems to work for most of the affected users.

The other related bugs Hermann mentioned are those:

bug 16975 <http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16975>bug 18025
<http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18025>bug 17565
<http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17565>bug 17715
<http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17715>

Best,
Panos
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On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the background info.
>
> Can you share the bug report ID's so I can follow those in Bugzilla?
>
> --
>  Richard Gaskin
>
>
> hh wrote:
>
>> Richard G. wrote (in the 'vertical-text'-thread):
>>>>> On disk the Linux build of CEF takes up 135 MBs, and like any
>>>>> browser I would imagine it more than doubles RAM requirements
>>>>> for an app using it.
>>>>>
>>>> hh wrote:
>>>> I would even give a full Gigabyte of RAM if this could make the
>>>> browser widget work on linux ...
>>>>
>>> Richard G. wrote:
>>> had pretty good luck on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit - what's your setup?
>>>
>>
>> Richard, I moved this to a new thread, fitting more the subject. Hope
>> it is OK for you. Thanks that you came in.
>>
>> After your report I was full of hope that the three years old ubuntu
>> 14.04.5 and LC 8.1.3 or 8.1.4-rc1 would yield a fully functional
>> browser widget. Installed in a fresh setup Ubuntu 14.04.5 and fresh
>> LC 8.1.3/8.1.4-rc1/9.0.0.-dp6 (all 'for this user only').
>>
>> Running 8.1.3-64bit it is better than the others tested below in that
>> it _randomly_ works correct and doesn't show bug 3 below (yes, bugs 1
>> 2 too). If not working it instead creates several additional processes
>> libbrowser-cefp.
>> And it  creates with every startup fresh preferences, declaring the old
>> one as corrupt. Running 8.1.3 on Ubuntu 14.04.5-32bit is the same as
>> described below.
>>
>> Within the last two weeks I tested the following, on real hardware
>> (additionally some on on virtualBox):
>> *Latest LTS* of Ubuntu (also Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Mint), Debian, Fedora.
>>
>> In sum 10 trials (6 on 64bit, 4 on 32bit). All OSes are running without
>> problems. LC 8.1.3, 8.1.4-rc1, 9.0.0-dp6 runs and works using LC Script.
>>
>> ****** But I had _NO_SUCCESS_ in these 10 trials with a browser widget.
>> ****** I wonder if anybody ever tested the _full_ functionality of the
>> ****** browser widget on a newer LTS linux flavour.
>>
>> Full functionality means that you can *do* javascript in the browser.
>> You can't even come into a state to test that: These severe 'bugs'
>> are common to _all_ my trials (incl. on Ubuntu 16.04.2):
>>
>> Bug 1: Open a new stack, drag a browser widget symbol from "Tools".
>> The widget portion of "Tools" disappears. Mostly LC hangs after that,
>> you need the system monitor or a terminal to kill it.
>>
>> Bug 2: Open a new stack, create a browser widget by LC-menu or script.
>> Try to open the property inspector. No reaction.
>> Try to quit LC. The "something-dialog" burns onto your screen. LC hangs
>> after that ... (as above).
>>
>> Bug 3: Open a stack with an included widget that runs on Mac and Win on
>> all systems that run LC 8/9 (for example: "Browser widget on linux
>> or "Sample stacks/Browser widget image manipulator" or "Sample stacks/
>> LCImageToolbox89").
>> At latest after the second load LC hangs, you need the system monitor
>> or a terminal to kill it and it's "something-dialog".
>>
>> I'm deeply disappointed about these extreme results, especially because
>> we know  that several members of the core team also use linux on their
>> own machines.
>>
>
>
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