"Works for gmail, youtube...."

Forum thread started by DFergATL on Sat, 2015-02-21 02:05

In Adrian's last blog post he makes the statement... (https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pulkomandy/2015-02-18_end_contract_closing...)

"Works for gmail, youtube, facebook, and many other websites."

I will have to disagree(excluding Facebook - this one is ok, not good but ok. I have nothing but issues with these sites (Youtube, Gmail), to the point that I can't use either one. But I don't see anyone else saying anything so I wonder if it is just me.

Youtube: Site loads, can't log in. Video plays but is choppy most of the time. On more then one occasion I have had Haiku lock up on me while playing a video on youtube. The entire OS will stop responding, no key combinations will work, just audio keeps playing. I have to remove the battery from the laptop to reboot.

Gmail: I can now login, this is an improvment. But after about 2 seconds the search area at the top of the screen will vanish, then gmail goes back and reloads, it will do this over and over and over. or, will will go to some white page with "Document has been moved here." on it. Either way I can't actually use gmail.

So are these just known problems, or am I unique with these issues. Before someone says to just log a ticket, please understand that I have stability issues with Webpositive that I assumed were just due to it being at an unstable development stage. If I logged every problem and Webpositive crash I have had in the last 60min. I would have logged over 10 new tickets.

So while it is better then it has ever been for me. I would not call it really useable. I don't know if this is just the way it is right now, or am I have issues no one else is??

Comments

Re: "Works for gmail, youtube...."

No matter how many tickets you create, this is how haiku development progresses. Without the issues being logged no developer knows they exist. I suggest you log all problems as it is far easier to merge duplicate tickets than to read through forum posts to find the relevant problems. https://dev.haiku-os.org/

Re: "Works for gmail, youtube...."

I was a bit optimistic in that comment it seems. While my test builds of WebKit and the HaikuLauncher browser works great with gmail, the release version has problems. It's been this way for some time and I can't find why it is so.

Youtube, however, will work rather well here. There is some frameskipping on the video (this is a performance problem in one of the new app_server features) but it can play for about 2 hours without a crash here - after that it will run out of memory because of the hacks to implement streaming support, which is not done the correct way in Media Kit.

So, it's still not perfect. I can't test everything myself so the bug reports are appreciated, even if there are dozens. Just try to search for similar reports to avoid posting the same issue twice.

Even if it is "just you", it is worth a bug report. Things should never be allowd to crash, and users must not accept this. However "experimental" the OS is, if no one reports the issues there is no chance to get them fixed.

Re: "Works for gmail, youtube...."

No you are not the only one finding bugs in at least youtube. I don't use Haiku in the other websites you mentioned. Here is one bug I reported, in case you came across it too.
https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/11469
Another bug I reported concerned WebPositive crashing when youtube home page loaded. I found after that it was caused by something with the WebPositive settings, from many updates of Haiku versions. I deleted WebPositve settings and the home page did not crash WebPositive. It might have only been the accumulated data and not the settings. I'm not certain.
https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/11799
Anyway if you have the same you can take them off your list and maybe add something to those bugs.

Re: "Works for gmail, youtube...."

Yes I confirmed that facebook and gmail wont load for me either, plus another page I go to: www.jpl.nasa.gov
It seems WebPositive is broken ATM. I also tried updating to latest version hrev48826 gcc4 and with me Webpositive is still at HaikuWebKit 1.4.9
WebKit 601.1.16.
I don't understand why it is not webkit 1.4.10. Is that only with gcc2?

Re: "Works for gmail, youtube...."

Only x86 GCC2 hybrids are officially supported (not GCC2, GCC4, GCC4 hybrids or x86_64).

Re: "Works for gmail, youtube...."

Ok, so I am not alone. That makes me feel better. Ok, logging tickets.... I have a dumb question. How do I take a screen shot in Haiku??

Re: "Works for gmail, youtube...."

Hit the "PrtScn" button to bring up the screenshot dialog. It's that easy. No need to use "paint" or some such app as in Windows.

Re: "Works for gmail, youtube...."

"Webpositive is still at HaikuWebKit 1.4.9"

I noticed that as well. But when you check the installed version in HaikuDepot it is in fact 1.4.10. Adrien must have forgot to change the version number in the "About" dialog.

Re: "Works for gmail, youtube...."

Yes, I forgot to update the version in the About Dialog for 1.4.10. But the gcc4 versions of Haiku are really still at 1.4.9 until someone packages 1.4.10.