{"id":308,"date":"2009-01-03T15:06:55","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T22:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/?p=308"},"modified":"2009-01-03T15:06:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T22:06:55","slug":"fedora-10-and-firefox-upgrade-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"Fedora 10 and Firefox upgrade complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"

My displeasure grows with my latest upgrade.\u00a0 F10 on my laptop caused my firefox and evolution sessions to always start up in offline mode.\u00a0 I’m never in offline mode – I have a cable modem and I’m always connected to the Internet.\u00a0 So I wasn’t sure why things had changed.\u00a0 It turns out, after a bit of googling, that the new NetworkManager system is the cause of these problems.<\/p>\n

Network Managers was introduced in F9 to better handle wireless connections.\u00a0 However, it doesn’t do much for me as I still configured using the older network<\/em> service.\u00a0 While Network Manager didn’t appear to get in my way in F9, having it running in F10 caused Evolution and Firefox to run in offline mode even though I was actually connected to the network.\u00a0 The way to fix this is to edit your \/etc\/sysconfig\/network file and add the following line:<\/p>\n

NETWORKWAIT=1<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

and then disable Network Manager from starting by using chkconfig and service:<\/p>\n

sudo chkconfig –levels 2345 NetworkManager off<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

sudo service NetworkManager stop<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Once I did this both Evolution and Firefox now startup in the correct mode (online).\u00a0 Mauriat Miranda’s Personal Fedora 9 Installation Guide<\/a> discusses this in a little more detail.<\/p>\n

Even with this fixed, I’m not happy with F10 on my laptop.\u00a0 Performance (re: responsiveness) is considerably worse.\u00a0 I ran a test print through system-config-printer via a remote CUPS printer and the former locked up.\u00a0 The print goes through okay but any prints from Firefox have no images included in them – I just get gray blocks.\u00a0 The printer is connected via USB on another Fedora 9 system and was working fine with Firefox in this print configuration with F9 on my laptop.\u00a0 Something about F10 or Firefox on F10 has changed.<\/p>\n

Another printing issue is that when a print is requested in Firefox the print dialog does not immediately show the CUPS connected printer.\u00a0 You have to wait a few seconds for it to show up.\u00a0 This didn’t happen in F9.\u00a0 It may be the connected printer is configured incorrectly.\u00a0 I’m never quite clear on how to get a remote CUPS printer to work with my laptop and always have to google for help on that after an upgrade.\u00a0 This time around I had to make a minor change to cups.conf on the server to allow remote connections and add an entry in client.conf on the laptop to make the remote printer show up.\u00a0 I don’t remember having to do that previously (and my backups from F9 of the cups config on the laptop don’t show such a configuration in the client.conf file).<\/p>\n

So things are working on F10, but not as well as under F9.\u00a0 I’m disappointed, to say the least, but worse is I may have to back-rev\u00a0 to F9 before I give my presentation at a local user group in order to get my dual monitors workings correctly (and with some speed).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My displeasure grows with my latest upgrade.\u00a0 F10 on my laptop caused my firefox and evolution sessions to always start up in offline mode.\u00a0 I’m never in offline mode – I have a cable modem and I’m always connected to the Internet.\u00a0 So I wasn’t sure why things had changed.\u00a0 It turns out, after a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,5,98],"tags":[101,89,46,104,102,103,634,86,88,97,619,92,99,627,38,100,63,96,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-fedora","7":"category-linux","8":"category-printing-linux","9":"tag-chkconfig","10":"tag-dual-monitors","11":"tag-epson","12":"tag-evolution","13":"tag-f10","14":"tag-f9","15":"tag-fedora","16":"tag-firefox","17":"tag-intel-driver","18":"tag-laptop","19":"tag-linux","20":"tag-multihead","21":"tag-networkmanager","22":"tag-open-source","23":"tag-printing","24":"tag-printing-issue","25":"tag-r280","26":"tag-red-hat","27":"tag-wifi","28":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe9t8-4Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}