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Sailfish-browser crash on startup.

asked 2015-05-18 08:53:59 +0300

Sameer gravatar image

updated 2015-06-11 18:23:05 +0300

The browser in my jolla was crashing the moment it started. I installed sailfish-browser-nightly from the warehouse. But the crashing wouldn't stop. So I uninstalled from the warehouse app. Now when I do pkcon install sailfish-browser it says package not found.

I need help. Although I can surf by installing an android browser, email links don't open without the sailfish-browser. I had upgraded to Aijanpaivanjarvi.

Edit 3: Updating to 1.1.6.27 does not help either.

Edit 1: Ok, so imunar's suggestion brought the browser back. But the crashing continues. I tried opening fro the terminal and I got this.

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Edit 2: Ok this got me thinking. Shouldn't we have more than one option of browsers and the ability to choose the default? I just added the feature request tag.

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Hi Sameer, either try the suggestion from imunar as laid out below, or check out this thread from here on TJC, it might yield some clues.

https://together.jolla.com/question/58859/solved-cant-install-or-update-any-packages-pkcon-refresh-failed/

Spam Hunter ( 2015-05-18 09:41:26 +0300 )edit

According to the description to the package on Openrepos.net you have to do the following:

This browser will REPLACE your built-in browser. To restore original browser uninstall this browser and install official browser from here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26659227/jolla/sailfish-browser-1.1.12-1.armv7hl.rpm

In case of problems you can use following commands in terminal to 100% return original browser:

devel-su
pkcon remove xulrunner-qt5
pkcon install sailfish-browser

I don't know if the version provided via dropbox is the current upstream version.

Generally it would be nice if there would be an official way to test nightly versions of sailfish-browser to avoid such problems.

wanderer ( 2015-05-18 09:51:01 +0300 )edit
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There's already a (bit buried) feature request to set the default browser, see this topic: set-default-browser.

raketti ( 2015-05-18 16:32:31 +0300 )edit

Well it seems to be forgotten. I am also calling for more native options.

Sameer ( 2015-05-18 19:01:04 +0300 )edit

At the moment there are three (ok, four if you count the Jolla Browser too):

  1. Webcat (https://github.com/llelectronics/webcat)
  2. Web Pirate (https://github.com/Dax89/harbour-webpirate)
  3. Ielig web (https://github.com/Utkiek/IeligWeb)

So, how many browsers do you need? ;)

raketti ( 2015-05-18 20:11:22 +0300 )edit

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answered 2015-05-18 09:39:16 +0300

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Maybe try pkcon refresh first as the package could be moved

then try something like pkcon get-packages | grep sailfish-browser if the browser is available

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