I tried something instead of moaning!

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#1

In a recent post, I answered with some negativity mainly surrounding the crashiness of sailfish-browser, at least 6 or 7 people seemed to agree, so for those and others, if it was regular crashes you experienced, I did the following;

devel-su pkcon refresh sailfish-browser

…and for good measure restarted lipstick.

After visiting the few forums I use, I found no matter what I did, how fast I scrolled, open, closed pages, back page, forward again, I couldn’t make the browser crash, this is really fkin nice!, albeit, somehow, I’m still expecting a crash, which once in a while is acceptable with any browser, just not every time I use it. The juice is worth the squeeze!!..oh, wrong forum!

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#2

You do realize this actually does nothing to the browser?
You are refreshing the package cache (only!), and putting a nonsense ignored argument to that command.

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#3

oh, really?, seems to have made a lot of difference.

I appreciate your input attah, you usually make sense, what’s nonsense or snake oil to you seems to have made a difference for me, a case of speak as you find. I don’t bother to post unless I think it has value, but you seem to like being a little bit shitty with many of your responses to others.

Try being a little kinder when replying, perhaps explain why it is nonsense or ignored?, I’m interested to know, broaden my mind please…gawaaan, you know you wanna!

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#4

Use strace and check on virgin (or problematic) system what really

does. Sometimes, the manual is not complete, correct or updated.

In this case, refresh updates the package repositories and:

  • should ignore everything else

OR

  • it would provide an error because sailfish-browser is not a repository (excluded)

OR

  • it might refresh the repositories and update the package sailfish-browser

Sometime:

  • the manual says NO, it is impossible and I wrote the manual and the code.
  • Yes but with a wrong IF condition.

In some other cases:

  • the refresh does not make any difference as expected but…
  • restarting lipstick after the boot made the difference

System test are tricky as trickier as the system became complex and the users-base grows. Usually not in linearly manner but exponentially. Guess what? In well designed systems complexity grows linearly or less likely than linearly… :wink:

#5

Sadly, refreshing the pkcon cache does not seem to do anything for me. The known issue webpages still crash the browser.
Restarting lipstick does free some memory, I guess, so that might impact something?

#6

Reminder to self. Compare crash behaviour GS5 vs. Rephone (4 vs 6 GB). I’ll need to set up a table of crash pages. I think we have enough links lying around here somewhere.