Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What's up with Firefox?

[Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>]

On Friday 05 Jul 2013 03:40:23 Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Peter Humphrey
> 
> <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> > Sorry to be a nuisance but I can't think of where else to ask.
> > 
> > On the website I run I have a link to our Twitter profile (or whatever
> > it's called). This is the link:
> >         https://twitter.com/TideswellMVC
> > 
> > If I examine the page using the web host's file editor I see exactly
> > that,
> > 
> > yet if I press CTRL-U in www-client/firefox-17.0.7 it shows this:
> >         https://twitter.com/#%21/TideswellMVC
> > 
> > and if I click the link in the main window I'm asked for a login and
> > password.
> 
> Very strange!

Indeed so. Now here's where I eat humble pie. I ran an emerge -e world 
overnight (for other reasons) and now I can't reproduce the strangeness[1]. 
Firefox now behaves as it should.

I can only apologise to you Paul, and to anyone else who put as much effort 
as you did into helping me with what turns out to have been a red herring.

--->8

Now for some strong coffee...

[1]	Perhaps I shouldn't mention Konsole, of which I have four instances on 
one desktop. In two of them, turning the mouse wheel scrolls the output as 
expected, but in the other two it scrolls the command-line buffer! I assume 
this is just one more artefact of the mess that is KDE these days.

-- 
Peter