Background to avoid tedious quoting:
Trying to purchase DVDs at Criterion.com, failed, help sought
Much clicking around, have now tried:
Firefox 45.2, Seamonkey 2.40, Seamonkey 2.53.5.1, Palemoon 28.16.0.
Managed to register w/ the site but only after onerous dicking around.
Failed to log in, check out a purchase or even enter CC payment
details.
Email to Criterion support received a nice but unhelpful reply.
Have given up. Will seek old movies through another channel
Post by JavierPost by Mike SpencerI tried to run seamonkey from the unpack directory (something I've
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file
/lib/libz.so.1: version `ZLIB_1.2.9' not found (required by
/home/pkg/seamonkey/usr/lib/seamonkey/libxul.so)
From my own experience I advice not to upgrade system libraries. At
least not in a computer that you use for serious uses. You may end
up with a non-bootable system and need to use a rescue disc.
Yes, and typically results, even without such disaster, in recursive
depenency-chasing.
In this case, considering this is just a compression lib, I found
libz.so.1.2.11 at the dal.ca mirror, caused /lib/libz.so.1 ->
libz.so.1.2.11 and Seamonkey 2.53.5.1 ran in the unpack directory
without further ado.
But it still produced (substitute for boring account of twiddling and
clicking) a dog's breakfast experience at Criterion.
(Yes, have reverted libz softlink to status quo ante. Not gratuitously
inviting unexpected failures.)
I surmise that their style-sheet code is the problem as reverting
to "no style" alternately with "default style" allowed me to make some
(but not enough) progress.
Post by JavierPost by Mike SpencerI've been doing *ix for 30 years, Linux for 20, have compiled various
stuff. But these huge app packages with rapid version changes,
intricate dependencies and perhaps aspects that I haven't even know
about intimidate me. I upgraded Slack to 14.2 over a year ago and
still don't have some details sorted out -- there's life away from the
keyboard, y'know? :-)
I agree. Regrettably it is how the modern webs are done.
Yeah. And they keep making superfluous *changes*. The scrollbars on
Seamonkey 2.53 are pointlessly *different* & AFAICT harder to use.
Thanks all for help, pointers etc.
--
Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada
"Life-long learning" was supposed to mean learning *new* stuff, not
learning the same stuff over and over.