I realized it’s been a long time since I last posted when I saw that the last post was about the totem plugin. Since then we have accomplished a lot.
- gstreamer component - steve wrote us a component to access gstreamer directly so we didn’t have to go through totem. Works much better.
- bug208 - the random crasher bug is gone. It appears to have been a mozilla thing because when we updated XULRunner to the Firefox beta2 tag this bug went away!
- bug8 - we were leaking domwindows left and right and memory at the rate of 2 megs per page change. We’ve landed several things in the past 2 weeks to stem that flow. Namely we’ve removed the main_pane.xul file that was just extraneous and we’ve eliminate a XBL leak in the playlists.
There’s lots more stuff getting fixed all the time, but those are 3 of the major things to happen recently. All in all I’m thrilled that I can join the rest of team hunting down these other bugs. The Bird is stable enough to listen to music all day and I can surf the web and download and listen to music from sites.
Giddy Up.
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Subscribei downloaded 0.2rc3 and set it up on a fresh install of ubuntu edgy eft, and all is well.
i checked to make sure that i met all of the system requirements (http://www.songbirdnest.com/support), and then just followed a set of install directions that i found here (http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=615), and things are running along w/o a hitch.
i haven’t tried to ruffle it’s feathers too bad (oh, the puns . . .), but i’m glad to see it working! thanks for all of your work!