[OZAPRS] aprs.fi not working ubuntu

David djmunn at bigpond.com
Sun Jun 1 18:52:40 EST 2008


David wrote:
> Tim Ahpee wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 05:01:14PM +1000, Michael Brown VK2ZEN wrote:
>>  
>>> does anyone else have a problem with getting stations to show up 
>>> using  firefox in the latest ubuntu, or any linux ? any ideas at all 
>>> why it  might not work.  What exactly renders those gogle maps and 
>>> the stations  plots.
>>>     
>>
>> Ubuntu 8.04 includes Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 which does not play nice with
>> aprs.fi. OH7LZB commented about it on his blog
>>
>> http://oh7lzb.blogspot.com/2008/04/firefox-3-beta-not-working-with-aprsfi.html 
>>
>>
>> There is a bug logged against Firefox 3.0 regarding this problem because
>> the site works fine in 2.x. So until it gets fixed go and find a copy of
>> Firefox 2.x and install it alongside 3.0.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tim
>> VK3TZA
>>
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>>   
> Hi All...using Ubuntu 8.04 here.....you can load Firefox 2 from the 
> APT list and have both 2 and 3 beta ....just have to remember which 
> one you want....on my other machine i had to do a complete new install 
> of 8.04....had backed up my home drive and so i got a fairly clean 
> install...3 beta had been bad on that machine sometimes producing 
> garbage when loading some pages.....no problems now.....this machine 
> was upgraded from 7.10 and found that 3 beta sometimes was 
> bad.....there is a upgrade that seems to have fixed it.....ive set up 
> my machines so that i can get the latest upgrades when i want them....
>
> 73 David VK4BDJ
>
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Hi again.....just checked with both firefox 2 and the upgraded 3 beta 
with aprs.fi and had no problems......

73 David VK4BDJ
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