From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Allan Webber Subject: How to make current icecat less crashy Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2016 20:31:36 -0500 Message-ID: <8737j86nev.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42637) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c2TM8-0003uO-7I for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 21:31:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c2TM3-00018K-BD for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 21:31:44 -0400 Received: from dustycloud.org ([50.116.34.160]:39902) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c2TM3-000187-6l for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 21:31:39 -0400 Received: from oolong (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dustycloud.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A649F2671A for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2016 21:31:36 -0400 (EDT) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix@gnu.org Seems a lot of us have been experiencing crashes in the current Icecat. in Guix master. Ricardo Wurmus gave me a nice tip that seems to have fixed the problem here: go to about:config find the keys gfx.canvas.azure.backends and gfx.content.azure.backends for both change =E2=80=9Ccairo=E2=80=9D to =E2=80=9Cskia=E2=80= =9D note that for me this results in less readable fonts Seems to work here! (I haven't noticed the font issue but I could just be missing it.)