On 01/23/2012 11:26 PM, zuser wrote:
> Neither Firefox nor Chromium will work properly.
i have not seen the symptom you describe on my machine (but, i running a
different OS and KDE version)…and, i have not yet seen any other
forum user describe this problem–so, i conclude it is not widespread…
but, i find it VERY strange that you see it in both FF and Chromium,
and in both openSUSE and Fedora…
so, i suggest you first look at Firefox:
- disable all add-ons
- go Edit > Preferences > Privacy, and delete all cookies with the
search string of ‘google’ (you will find that the next time you go to
google you will have to log in, and reset preferences…but!)
- shut down and restart FF
- try maps.google again
if not, what happens if you turn off Desktop Effects?
any changes?
if not, use YaST to add a new test user…log out of the desktop and
then back in as the test user; launch firefox and go to the maps–any
change?
if not, then you must have a unique problem and i have to guess it
is due to something which is unique about your system(s)
so, what version of Firefox are you using??
have you ‘upgraded’ your kernel past that in the update repo?
have you ever installed anything from a Tumbleweed, Factory, unstable or
playground repo?
you say you have “nvidia chips with proprietary drivers” did you use an
openSUSE method of installing the drivers
(like:http://tinyurl.com/37v9y7m) or some other way? did you do the
“hard way” or a 1-Click? what graphic hardware and driver are you using?
are you also booting with the ‘nomodeset’ boot option?
are you having any other such video problems?
how did you get to 12.1? that is, did you do a format and full install
of 12.1, or did you “upgrade” from some previous version of openSUSE?
which, and how did you “upgrade”?
the /home your normal user uses, has it ever been used by or shared with
any other Linux distro?
a. have you ever seen maps.google function properly?
b. when did you first notice this maps.google problem?
what happened to your system between ‘a’ and ‘b’??
see, there are LOTS of variables the user can introduce which causes
their system to be so unique that it does strange things…and with
enough experimentation with potentially clashing mismatched software it
is safe to expect an unstable system…
if you boot and run from an openSUSE 12.1 Live KDE CD, and try
maps.google before doing any ‘customizations’ what happens?
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