Crash on loading NetSurf
by Andrew Pinder
Message from NetSurf: "The Unicode font library could not be
initialised. Please report this to the developers."
I don't believe this is a bug - it's the aftermath of a crash.
This ARMini (RO 5.22) had been out of use for a period due to a house
move. I had been using release 4335, which seemed stable. I
downloaded release 4528 as the then most recent. This ran but wasn't
displaying some pages correctly. I think the next day I had a crash
while downloading email with NetFetch. This caused disc problems.
After using DiscKnight and repairing Messenger I then tried loading
NetSurf. I got the above error message. I deleted r4528 and reverted
to r4335. The error message still occurs on attempting to load
NetSurf. I double checked the modules in System to make sure they
were the ones that came with r4335.
My best guess is that a Unicode file has been corrupted. How do I
check? Where do I find an up to date version of Unicode to install?
Regards
Andrew
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Andrew Pinder
4 years, 7 months
mailto:
by Richard Torrens (lists)
Recent Netsurf seems to have a problem with indirect mailto: urls.
e.g
http://www.burwellness.co.uk/index.html
In the body there are two email buttons. These call a cgi program which
(if the calling button has sent a correct CheckVar) returns the relevant
URL in the form mailto:Richard@torrens.org
It is this indirect URL which now does not work. It's an anti-spam system
I have used for years and I have only recenly noticed it failing.
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Richard Torrens.
http://www.Torrens.org for genealogy, natural history, wild food, walks, cats
and more!
4 years, 7 months
GMail in Netsurf 3.9
by Harriet Bazley
On 30 Jan 2019 as I do recall,
Bret Busby wrote:
> On 22/01/2019, Harriet Bazley <lists at bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:
> > On 21 Jan 2019 as I do recall,
> > Bret Busby wrote:
> >
> >> The gmail seems to be as usable as gmail is usable (it does not work
> >> with firefox, for me - the way it is displayed in firefox, is
> >> illegible).
> >>
> >
> > Yes, it is - but can you enter your password to log in? (Better
> > take a copy of the COokies file if you plan to experiment...)
> >
> > Google now appear to have wrapped GMail into the concept of their general
> > 'Google Account', which I suspect is what is causing the problem.
>
> Okay.
>
> With Netsurf having just crashed due to the Internet connection
> breaking up, I have started a new session og gmail, and the login
> process is as it has been for a while - account name - 1 screen, then
> password input - second screen, and I logged in without any problem.
>
> Then the browser crashed again, when the Internet connection broke
> again, but, I managed to log in again, without any problem.
Well, here it's just happened again: GMail session logged out (not by
me this time!), account name ("one account. All of Google") - 1 screen ,
password input - second screen, error message at
https://accounts.google.com/signin/rejected?hl=en-GB&rrk=47&rhlk=js
"Couldn't sign you in
"The browser that you're using doesn't support JavaScript, or has
JavaScript turned off."
I tried enabling Netsurf's JavaScript, in case it was just doing a
stupid-level check, but the page is absolutely stiff with JS:
if (AF_initDataInitializeCallback)
{AF_initDataInitializeCallback(AF_initDataKeys, AF_initDataChunkQueue,
AF_dataServiceRequests);}if (!AF_initDataCallback) {AF_initDataCallback
= function(chunk) {AF_initDataChunkQueue.push(chunk);} etc etc
I managed to restore access by copying across the Cookies file from the
other computer again, but that cookie will presumably eventually expire
too. :-(
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Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie ==
Computers can never replace human stupidity.
4 years, 7 months
