[21600] in Athena Bugs
Re: Mozilla
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Wed Mar 12 19:27:47 2003
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To: Aletta Wallace <aletta@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:02:18 EST."
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:27:45 -0500
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
> The main problems are:
> 1) When I am typing in a URL it goes very slowly and on the right hand
> side of the drop-down box there are chinese characters.
> 2) The fonts in the menu bar/navigation buttons/etc randomly change at
> times when I mouse over them.
> 3) The place where the cursor is displayed in the URL box is not where
> charachters appear when I type sometimes.
All three are symptoms of the same problem; the format of the history
file is endianness specific, and if you switch between platforms with
a different endianness, it will get corrupted.
A work-around is to delete your history.dat file from inside your
mozilla's profile directory, before starting mozilla, when you switch
platforms.
I don't know if there's any plan to address this problem; we might have
been hoping it would go away on its own when mozilla 1.2.1 came out.
Todd? If there's no fix in sight, we should at least document the
work-around.
-Camilla
