Hi
Would someone have an idea for me (how to fix the bug) or a new IRC client to recommand me (I am on macintosh OS9, netscape 7.02 and no, I cant upgrade to a newer system) ?
I was previously on chatzilla. I had what I thought a bug (I could not close tabs of personal channels). I went to freenode to seek from help and they recommanded I upgraded my chatzilla. Looking in the new versions, I discovered it was not a bug, but... a non existent feature, which was fixed in most recent versions.
I hence upgraded chatzilla. http://www.hacksrus.com/~ginda/chatzilla/ Now, when I start chatzilla (I later tried all versions I could find), I have an error message, and the application is not working anymore.
I installed with pain Shadow IRC (which was the first irc I used, but is by far less confortable to use) and contacted the chatzilla irc. I discussed during 2 hours with Silver, one of the big guy for chatzilla. We concluded that for some reason, I had a file missing nslFile Protocole Handler component.
I understood that file location was changed in 2002, so it was likely that chatzilla was looking at the new location, while my browser being borderline 2002-2003, could still have it at the ancient location (chatzilla does not handle "yet" the old location, but Silver said he might do the patch for the next release).
However, the problem is that we were not able to find the file at all.
When I evaluate in the javascript window whether
Components.classes["@mozilla.org/network/protocol;1?name=file"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIFileProtocolHandler).getFileFromURLSpec or Components.classes["@mozilla.org/network/io-service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIIOService).getFileFromURLSpec
neither of the two exist.
What is quite curious is that chatzilla was previously working on an old version. But when I installed it, I remember quite well that the newer version had the same bug. This suggest that the file concerned existed then, and that older versions of chatzilla were able to manage somehow.
I entirely reinstalled my computer about 1 month ago; so might have "lost" something ??? I already reinstalled netscape/mozilla and chatzilla entirely yesterday night, but the file still not there.
Does that suggest any thing to someone ?
Alternatively, who has a decent and free irc client to recommand me ? Shadow is really unconfortable to use.
Meanwhile, I think I won't be much on IRC any more. Which is somehow problematic for communication.
Only benefit is that it will help cure my wikiholism :-)
On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 08:35:35 +0200, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi
Would someone have an idea for me (how to fix the bug) or a new IRC client to recommand me (I am on macintosh OS9, netscape 7.02 and no, I cant upgrade to a newer system) ?
One thing you could try (if the bug fixing does not work out) is to get someone to give you a shell account somewhere with access to irssi, and use IRC from there. You'd need to do a little bit of a song and dance manuver to get it to do UTF-8, but as long as you have a SSH client to get to it, it would work on any kind of computer.
Fennec Foxen a écrit:
On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 08:35:35 +0200, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi
Would someone have an idea for me (how to fix the bug) or a new IRC client to recommand me (I am on macintosh OS9, netscape 7.02 and no, I cant upgrade to a newer system) ?
One thing you could try (if the bug fixing does not work out) is to get someone to give you a shell account somewhere with access to irssi, and use IRC from there. You'd need to do a little bit of a song and dance manuver to get it to do UTF-8, but as long as you have a SSH client to get to it, it would work on any kind of computer.
... Euh... Fennec, did I already mentionned I was not a developer ?
Anthere, totally confused here... :-(((
On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 00:23:24 +0200, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
One thing you could try (if the bug fixing does not work out) is to get someone to give you a shell account somewhere with access to irssi, and use IRC from there. You'd need to do a little bit of a song and dance manuver to get it to do UTF-8, but as long as you have a SSH client to get to it, it would work on any kind of computer.
.... Euh... Fennec, did I already mentionned I was not a developer ? Anthere, totally confused here... :-(((
You don't need to be a developer in order to set up a shell with irssi. It might be a little confusing to set up, however, and you would need assistance as well as someone with server space available. It would not necessarily be on a Wikimedia server.
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