Firefox and .cgi annoyance [solved]

I'm trying to access my dreamhost webpanel, which turns out to be some index.cgi page (after I've entered my credentials), but I always get a popup asking me to download the file.
Firefox doesn't seem to process the CGI file itself. Anyone else have this problem and/or know a fix?

cactus wrote:
tardo.. instead of going to..
https://panel.dreamhost.com/
go directly to https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi
bam.
that works, thanks.

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thanks so much for your posts back. I really appreciate it and yes that does help to know that you could not get it working.
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[SOLVED] firefox and thunderbird freeze

Hi, since a few day I've had issues with both firefox 9 and thunderbird 9. Firefox starts normally, but whenever I touch try to open a menu it freezes. If I start ff from a terminal I don't get any error error messages it just hangs. Killing the program from the gui does not work, but I when started from the terminal ctrl-c kills it without any problems. The problem only occurs for the main toolbar, my bookmarks bar works fine, as do the home button, url bar and such. Thunderbird shows similar freezes, but they occur consistently after starting the program. I think the problems started after upgrading to version 9, but I am not entirely sure, since I don't use the laptop on which the problem occurs much for email and browsing.
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Last edited by FreeTheBee (2011-12-28 11:27:29)

The output is mostly gibberish to me but it did help
When I click a menu button in firefox the output of strace turned into a seemingly endless loop of the following
readlink("/home/patrick/.pulse/6d395381881edc62e30ef1dc0000052a-runtime", "/tmp/pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n"..., 99) = 23
lstat64("/tmp/pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n", 0xbfe89d70) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
umask(077) = 022
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rmdir("/tmp/pulse-OHwEwCYtPIhw") = 0
nanosleep({0, 10000000}, ^C <unfinished ...>
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Last edited by FreeTheBee (2011-12-28 11:28:44)

[SOLVED] Firefox and Thunderbird intermittently runs without a window

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[solved] Firefox and ed2k / aMule links

Hi,
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Last edited by SiD (2007-03-19 21:31:14)

Kern wrote:erm, shouldnt that be /usr/bin/amule not /usr/bin/ed2k ?
no, /usr/bin/ed2k is correct
from ed2k man-page
aMule ED2k link parser v1.1.0. Sends the given <ED2k_link> to aMule
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EDIT
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EDIT
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Last edited by SiD (2007-03-19 21:37:54)

[SOLVED] Firefox and bad fonts

I would like to start using Firefox and its excellent plugins, but the only thing that prevents me are the fonts. They seem plain evil!
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Firefox: fonts are fuzzy and some characters are looking like painted - see the copyright sign for example! :evil: Also the distance between different characters in a word doesnt seem to be equal all the times and that makes it hard to grasp the word.
Mozilla Suite: crisp and clear
I think it is somehow xft - related, because I downloaded the standard Mozilla suite build and it also had these awful fonts and then tried the non-xft build and fonts were ok. In Appearance-Fonts they are described as Serif -> adobe-times-iso8859-1, Sans-serif -> adobe-helvetica-iso8859-1 and so on. How could I get these fonts appear in Firefox, too?
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What you call "crisp", I just call "aliased". The fonts in Opera are also aliased, which makes them look poor. Your Firefox's fonts look nice, except the fact that the autohinter is making them look sloppy. Comment that part out and see how it looks.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">

<fontconfig>




</fontconfig>
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Firefox always launches with three tabs -- my home page, a month old site from Slate and Huffington Post. Even uninstalling and reintalling doesnt solve problem.

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Hello Kenneth.
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it look like the same problem as me:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1042889
I don't understand almost nothing about certificates then I didn't find any tutorial explaining how to deal with. Also I sow that was totally diferent have some ssl things to check and now is a OCSP ??? for me all still chinesse (lol) I only want someting very simple: reach my router !!!.
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Sorry, my english it's not the best.

[SOLVED)
@the-edmeister That work !!! thank you very much. I have to put it at SSLv3 option to this work.
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Hello,
'''Try Firefox Safe Mode''' to see if the problem goes away. [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode|Firefox Safe Mode]] is a troubleshooting mode that turns off some settings and disables most add-ons (extensions and themes).
''(If you're using an added theme, switch to the Default theme.)''
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[[Image:FirefoxSafeMode|width=520]] 
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[[Image:Safe Mode Fx 15 - Win]]
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