From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: End of beta soon? drop i686? Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 18:27:26 -0500 Message-ID: <875zvy9vgm.fsf@netris.org> References: <87imzy90qb.fsf@dismail.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50728) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gXDvq-0006BX-Ct for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 18:28:47 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gXDvk-0005mK-NR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 18:28:44 -0500 Received: from world.peace.net ([64.112.178.59]:58396) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gXDvk-0005dD-F1 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 18:28:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87imzy90qb.fsf@dismail.de> (Joshua Branson's message of "Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:19:24 -0500") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Joshua Branson Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Joshua, Joshua Branson writes: > The last time I tried guix's iceweasel, it was *un-useable* on many > sites I came across. I couldn't log into my bank account (though that's > probably 'cause my bank only lets you log in via "firefox"), youtube > stopped working, scrolling was choppy, changing tabs took 3+ seconds. > The whole time I used it, I was just waiting for it to crash. I would > have to periodically close iceweasel, because if I didn't, it would > crash and suspend my system. Then I would have to do a hard restart to > recover. I was unable to switch to another virtual console to kill > iceweasel. This still happens occasionally with Parabola though. I'm reasonably sure that Guix has never had an iceweasel package. Am I mistaken, or did you mean to say something else? Mark