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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Not responding while page buildup
The page is still partially loading and then Otter just closes.
Weekly #224.
Probably yet another thing that only happens on Windows XP!
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Downloads tab not opening automatically?
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Otter Browser Forum / Downloads tab not opening automatically?
Was that behaviour changed? I thought that was rather useful.
I can't find any setting to change the behaviour, which there was in Opera 12 IIRC.
Cheers, Dave.
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Not responding while page buildup
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Spell Checker
@DaveH, that sounds like issue specific to Windows XP. :-/Oh dear, I was afraid you were going to say that!
Is that because hunspell isn't compatible with XP, or is it an Otter thing?
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Spell Checker
Also does exactly the same with a clean profile.
Anyone any ideas?
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Spell Checker
It correctly appears ticked as the in-use choice when I look in the "Dictionaries" right click menu.
It's still crashing every time I right click in a text box however. I have Norton Crashguard installed, which allows me to revive it, and I can then enter text into the box, as I am doing now, but every single word is marked as being mis-spelled!
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Spell Checker
I found a us-EN dictionary, which consists of a en-US.aff file and a en-US.dic file.
I put them both into the otter\profile\dictionaries folder, and they are being recognised.
I now have an entry "American English (United States) [US]" entry on the menu.
Unfortunately as soon as I try to use it, I get a crash in ibstdc++-6.dll reported.
Is this a Windows XP problem perhaps? I hope not.
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Spell Checker
Sorry for the delay in responding, I didn't get an e-mail notification of your reply for some reason.
From what you're saying, I've got to install hunspell separately. I was assuming that it came with the browser!
Hunspell.exe isn't anywhere on my system anyway, so I will have to find it.
Cheers, Dave.
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Otter Browser Forum / Spell Checker
I'm using the latest weeklies.
I gather that you're supposed to use hunspell compatible didtionaries, but I have none installed at the moment.
Right clicking on a text input box shows nothing under the "Dictionaries" entry on the popup menu.
I've tried finding dictionaries, and putting them into a "dictionaries" folder within my Otter profile folder, but still nothing.
There seem to be several formats of hunspell dictionaries available though, which type does the implementation in Otter need?
Thanks, Dave.
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Otter Browser - Good to know you...
I gather you're supposed to put hunspell dictionaries into a "dictionaries" subfolder in the profile folder.
Is that right?
I've searched but I can't find any dictionary files that actually seem to be recognised, the "Dictionaries" option on the right click menu in text input boxes doesn't show anything.
Where can I find a compatible UK English dictionary file?
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Spurious Windows sound plays when using the mouse navigation buttons
As I said, Otter has always done this on my machine, and I kept thinking that one day the issue would just go away, but if there's no obvious cause for it it's obviously not something that can be just "fixed"!
I'm not sure under what circumstances the Windows "Exclamation" sound is played anyway.
I will have to investigate that to see if there is anything related to Otter that would be likely to trigger it.
I have many other browsers installed, IE, Firefox, Opera 12 and Opera 36, even the last Safari for Windows (!) and none of them do this.
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Otter Browser Forum / Spurious Windows sound plays when using the mouse navigation buttons
When using Otter, every time I press the "Back" or "Forward" buttons on my mouse, Windows plays the "Exclamation" sound.
This does not happen with any other browser.
It doesn't happen if I use the UI buttons. The mouse buttons do what they should do, but why should they play a sound?
Any idea why that would be happening, as it is a bit annoying?!
I can't see any relevant settings.
I'm using the latest weekly #208, but the issue has always been there with Otter for as long as I can remember.
Thanks, Dave.
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: A question about MP4/WEBM playback in XP and a couple of bugs
They are from the XP SP2 package.
That made YouTube HTML5 work again for me in the Otter weekly builds.
HTH.
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Transfers Window
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Transfers Window
I was just so delighted that you can finally re-size the columns properly!
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Otter Browser Forum / Transfers Window
Finally you can re-size the columns properly, and it's remembered!
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Otter Browser Forum / Start Page Tiles
The labels now seem to crop the bottom of the thumbnail off.
Has that changed or am I imagining things?
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Otter and Windows XP
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Otter and Windows XP
I just updated to weekly 188, and the YouTube videos are still working!
Did you do the update you mentioned?
Cheers, Dave.
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Otter and Windows XP
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Otter and Windows XP
The videos are now playing using HTML5 on the normal YouTube pages.
Will I have to do that substitution every time I update the weekly?
Cheers, Dave.
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Otter and Windows XP
I tried https://www.youtube.com/v/NNY73_YcZVY again, and this time it worked. It didn't play automatically, but on clicking the (huge) white play arrow symbol, the video did play in full screen, using the Flash Player.
Not ideal though, it needs to work on the normal YouTube pages with the normal links!
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