SUSE 10.2; Firefox 2.0.0.2pre odd behaviour with "%20" in a hyperlink.

The following link behaved oddly for me:
http://www.ecmwf.int/products/foreca...!2006122900!!/
When I clicked on it, Firefox opened four tabs for the following links:
http://www.ecmwf.int/products/foreca...v850_z500!Wind
http://850/
http://www.and.com/index1.php
http://www.mslp!240!europe!pop!od!op...6122900!!.com/

It appears that "%20" triggers a break in the link and causes Firefox to
open another tab. I've repeated the experiment making Epiphany and Mozilla
the default browsers but they work OK. I've also tried Firefox 2.0.0.1 in
XP and it's OK. I've repeated the problem with SUSE 10.2 on a other
machine. I'm getting suspicious that it's the SUSE 10.2 version of Firefox
that's the problem.

Why is the SUSE version of the browser, 2.0.0.1-1, based on 2.0.0.2pre? Is
this a pre-release version?

Graham

Graham P Davis wrote:

> The following link behaved oddly for me:
>
http://www.ecmwf.int/products/foreca...!2006122900!!/
> When I clicked on it, Firefox opened four tabs for the following links:
>
http://www.ecmwf.int/products/foreca...v850_z500!Wind
> http://850/
> http://www.and.com/index1.php
> http://www.mslp!240!europe!pop!od!op...6122900!!.com/
>
> It appears that "%20" triggers a break in the link and causes Firefox to
> open another tab. I've repeated the experiment making Epiphany and Mozilla
> the default browsers but they work OK. I've also tried Firefox 2.0.0.1 in
> XP and it's OK. I've repeated the problem with SUSE 10.2 on a other
> machine. I'm getting suspicious that it's the SUSE 10.2 version of Firefox
> that's the problem.
>
> Why is the SUSE version of the browser, 2.0.0.1-1, based on 2.0.0.2pre?
> Is this a pre-release version?

Hi Graham,

The link works fine with copy and paste, but it is doing what you said when
it is default html application. It works fine with URL pasted and manually
replaced %20 for a backspace.

There is something in conversation between KDE and Firefox that breaks the
URL in 4 parts.

Solution is to install version in:
http://software.opensuse.org/downloa...openSUSE_10.2/
it is unofficial with some bug fixes. Among others the one that you noticed.
The version that you will see in Help-ABout Firefox is SUSE/2.0.0.1-8.1
Firefox/2.0.0.1.

And, yes 2.0.0.2pre is release candidate.

My personal thanks for reporting the bug.
Now I have to go back to http://bugzilla.novell.com and say thanks to
them :-)

--
Regards, Rajko.
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal

Rajko M wrote:

> Graham P Davis wrote:
>
>> The following link behaved oddly for me:
>>
>
http://www.ecmwf.int/products/foreca...!2006122900!!/
>> When I clicked on it, Firefox opened four tabs for the following links:
>>
>
http://www.ecmwf.int/products/foreca...v850_z500!Wind
>> http://850/
>> http://www.and.com/index1.php
>> http://www.mslp!240!europe!pop!od!op...6122900!!.com/
>>
>> It appears that "%20" triggers a break in the link and causes Firefox to
>> open another tab. I've repeated the experiment making Epiphany and
>> Mozilla the default browsers but they work OK. I've also tried Firefox
>> 2.0.0.1 in XP and it's OK. I've repeated the problem with SUSE 10.2 on a
>> other machine. I'm getting suspicious that it's the SUSE 10.2 version of
>> Firefox that's the problem.
>>
>> Why is the SUSE version of the browser, 2.0.0.1-1, based on 2.0.0.2pre?
>> Is this a pre-release version?
>
> Hi Graham,
>
> The link works fine with copy and paste, but it is doing what you said
> when it is default html application. It works fine with URL pasted and
> manually replaced %20 for a backspace.
>
> There is something in conversation between KDE and Firefox that breaks the
> URL in 4 parts.
>
> Solution is to install version in:
> http://software.opensuse.org/downloa...openSUSE_10.2/
> it is unofficial with some bug fixes. Among others the one that you
> noticed. The version that you will see in Help-ABout Firefox is
> SUSE/2.0.0.1-8.1 Firefox/2.0.0.1.
>
> And, yes 2.0.0.2pre is release candidate.
>
> My personal thanks for reporting the bug.
> Now I have to go back to http://bugzilla.novell.com and say thanks to
> them :-)
>

Thanks for sorting this out. I had a go at installing the other version but
when I got a load of conflicts I decided to leave well alone! Better the
devil you know, etc. The problem is minor and, as you mention, easy to get
round.

Thanks,

Graham

Graham P Davis wrote:

....
> Thanks for sorting this out. I had a go at installing the other version
> but when I got a load of conflicts I decided to leave well alone! Better
> the
> devil you know, etc. The problem is minor and, as you mention, easy to
> get round.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Graham

I used YaST and there was no problems.

1) Add source
Protocol: HTTP
Server: software.opensuse.org
Directory: download/mozilla/openSUSE_10.2
Finish.

Than I got to go and when I was back zmd-updater icon (globe in taskbar) was
orange, click on it revealed that I have Firefox updates.

You can speed up that with, either:
- right click on zmd-updater icon (globe in taskbar), select Refresh and
after it become orange click on it and you will have Firefox updates.
or
- start Software Management module, type firefox in search field and mark
for update.

The version is compiled by one of SUSE developers and it fixes some other
bugs. So far I know:
- 203748 This one is similar to your report,
- 230696 version number mismatch that you also noted.
With repositories on http://software.opensuse.org/ you should be sure who
compiled software and for what purpose. Quality is not guaranteed, just
because software is there. So I checked that first.

--
Regards, Rajko.
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal

Rajko M wrote:

> Graham P Davis wrote:
>
> ...
>> Thanks for sorting this out. I had a go at installing the other version
>> but when I got a load of conflicts I decided to leave well alone! Better
>> the
>> devil you know, etc. The problem is minor and, as you mention, easy to
>> get round.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Graham
>
> I used YaST and there was no problems.
>
> 1) Add source
> Protocol: HTTP
> Server: software.opensuse.org
> Directory: download/mozilla/openSUSE_10.2
> Finish.
>
> Than I got to go and when I was back zmd-updater icon (globe in taskbar)
> was orange, click on it revealed that I have Firefox updates.
>
> You can speed up that with, either:
> - right click on zmd-updater icon (globe in taskbar), select Refresh and
> after it become orange click on it and you will have Firefox updates.
> or
> - start Software Management module, type firefox in search field and mark
> for update.
>
> The version is compiled by one of SUSE developers and it fixes some other
> bugs. So far I know:
> - 203748 This one is similar to your report,
> - 230696 version number mismatch that you also noted.
> With repositories on http://software.opensuse.org/ you should be sure who
> compiled software and for what purpose. Quality is not guaranteed, just
> because software is there. So I checked that first.
>

I was absolutely convinced that adding the source to YAST should work but,
when I tried it, it failed every time. I forget the error message -
something about not finding the source? I cut & pasted the address so there
were no spelling mistakes, I got all the right number of slashes in all the
right places but no joy. Now, after seeing your message, I've tried again
and it's worked first time.

I've been going through a spell the past few weeks where everything that can
go wrong has done, along with several things that I thought couldn't ever
possibly go wrong. Perhaps the New Year will bring a change for the better!

Thanks again for your help,

Graham

Graham,

is that still the machine upgraded from a previous version? With all the problems you have, I'd seriously consider a clean install.

Uwe

--
Novell Support Connection Volunteer SysOp
Please don't send me support related e-mail unless I ask you to do so.

Uwe Buckesfeld wrote:

> Graham,
>
> is that still the machine upgraded from a previous version? With all the
> problems you have, I'd seriously consider a clean install.
>
> Uwe
>

I did a clean install of 10.2 on both my machines. Looks like I may have a
hardware problem on my laptop as it freezes with hard-drive light fully on
and these failures are happening with increasing frequency. It never rains
but it pours!

Even with clean installs, problems still arise from changes to methods of
configuration of programs in the home directories. It occasionally takes
some messing around with the configuration folders after a new release to
get things working as they should.

This morning, when I booted this machine, I got GRUB error 22 and I
though "here we go again" but reboot was OK. If luck has anything to do
with it, I suppose I can look back many years ago to when I had a run of
five successive raffle wins and think this is just balancing things
out. ;-)

Cheers,

Graham

Graham,

the Grub error was on the freezing laptop? If so it sure sounds like a hardware issue. Can you test the HD?

As for config files: I normally rename my homedir and copy over just the config files I need. Mostly Kontact related stuff.

Uwe


--
Novell Support Connection Volunteer SysOp
Please don't send me support related e-mail unless I ask you to do so.

Uwe Buckesfeld wrote:

> Graham,
>
> the Grub error was on the freezing laptop? If so it sure sounds like a
> hardware issue. Can you test the HD?
>
> As for config files: I normally rename my homedir and copy over just the
> config files I need. Mostly Kontact related stuff.
>

22 : No such partition
This error is returned if a partition is requested in the device
part of a device- or full file name which isn't on the selected
disk.
This is hard disk. First that comes in mind is from name - laptop.
Don't cover ventilation holes.

I've got such problem with desktop. I used Maxtor program. There was option
for non destructive check, repaired what is left and there is no problems
ever since. It has extra cooling, though ;-)

--
Regards, Rajko.
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal

Rajko M wrote:

> Uwe Buckesfeld wrote:
>
>> Graham,
>>
>> the Grub error was on the freezing laptop? If so it sure sounds like a
>> hardware issue. Can you test the HD?
>>
>> As for config files: I normally rename my homedir and copy over just the
>> config files I need. Mostly Kontact related stuff.
>>
>
> 22 : No such partition
> This error is returned if a partition is requested in the device
> part of a device- or full file name which isn't on the selected
> disk.
> This is hard disk. First that comes in mind is from name - laptop.
> Don't cover ventilation holes.
>

The Grub problem was not with the laptop. I thought - perhaps that should
be "think" - that overheating was the problem on the laptop and checked
that ventilation holes were un-obstructed. Everything seemed OK.

I've had a problem with the laptop disk since installing Linux - using the
partitioner supplied with 10.1 instead of using another program seems to
have been a mistake. Re-installing XP or using Partition Magic after the
event became impossible. But, as both systems worked OK - and I only use XP
to configure my router - I was not too bothered. However, I'm pretty sure
this is not related to the current problem.

> I've got such problem with desktop. I used Maxtor program. There was
> option for non destructive check, repaired what is left and there is no
> problems ever since. It has extra cooling, though ;-)
>

The Grub error occurred in my desktop machine which has three hard drives
and has a history of having Grub installed in various places over the
years. A couple of months ago, whilst I was trying another flavour of
Linux, the Grub installer on that one appeared to have picked up one of the
older versions. I'm therefore not too surprised if once in a while the
booter gets its knickers in a twist but as long as it doesn't make a habit
of it I'm happy.

Cheers,

Graham