[SOLVED, Kinda, Sorta]: Browsers and E-Mail
Posted: 16. Apr 2013, 09:11
I don't think this is a SalixOS issue, really, but I can't guess why I never had these issues in my old distro. Perhaps it's some setting I can find and fix:
Midori was great for a week, then started freezing and crashing like it always has for me in every distro, so I wasn't really disappointed, expecting no less than what Midori has done in every distro I've used it on for 2 years. Replaced with Firefox. But Firefox refused to apply my font preferences, so I'm squinting and using magnifiers to see certain pages. And it won't communicate with Thunderbird either, which also refused to apply font settings. Click on a link in T-Bird and it should open Firefox and go there, but it won't. Have to copy and paste it into the browser. Check my settings... yes, my Preferred Applications settings in SalixOS 14 are set to FF and T-Bird, and both of them individually are selected as "default browser" and "default e-mail," yet they won't integrate. Enough of that, so uninstall all of that and throw on Opera, based on the great reviews it gets here in these forums.
No problem with browser and e-mail client "talking to one another," and it accepts my font preferences but refuses to retain them. I'm using Opera's built-in sliding zoom feature constantly on ever page I visit, and in every e-mail I select. Maddening. And it's slow! Really slow. Perhaps it's too much for this old Dell Dimension desktop with it's aging Celeron processor and scant 512 of RAM.
So now I'm on Seamonkey, which has always worked flawlessly on this computer no matter what distro. No problems with integration, font settings, nor speed. I can breathe again. But Seamonkey has some limitations (not showstoppers, just minor little stuff). I'm really curious why all this happened and why it seems to be unique to SalixOS, in my admittedly very limited experience (the 'buntus, Debian, PCLinuxOS, Mepis, Mint). Any ideas?
Midori was great for a week, then started freezing and crashing like it always has for me in every distro, so I wasn't really disappointed, expecting no less than what Midori has done in every distro I've used it on for 2 years. Replaced with Firefox. But Firefox refused to apply my font preferences, so I'm squinting and using magnifiers to see certain pages. And it won't communicate with Thunderbird either, which also refused to apply font settings. Click on a link in T-Bird and it should open Firefox and go there, but it won't. Have to copy and paste it into the browser. Check my settings... yes, my Preferred Applications settings in SalixOS 14 are set to FF and T-Bird, and both of them individually are selected as "default browser" and "default e-mail," yet they won't integrate. Enough of that, so uninstall all of that and throw on Opera, based on the great reviews it gets here in these forums.
No problem with browser and e-mail client "talking to one another," and it accepts my font preferences but refuses to retain them. I'm using Opera's built-in sliding zoom feature constantly on ever page I visit, and in every e-mail I select. Maddening. And it's slow! Really slow. Perhaps it's too much for this old Dell Dimension desktop with it's aging Celeron processor and scant 512 of RAM.
So now I'm on Seamonkey, which has always worked flawlessly on this computer no matter what distro. No problems with integration, font settings, nor speed. I can breathe again. But Seamonkey has some limitations (not showstoppers, just minor little stuff). I'm really curious why all this happened and why it seems to be unique to SalixOS, in my admittedly very limited experience (the 'buntus, Debian, PCLinuxOS, Mepis, Mint). Any ideas?
