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neubauten84

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Registered: 2010-02-27

Posts: 51

Epiphany 3.16 buffering and streaming problems

Hi there,
I recently moved back from KF5 to Gnome just to try it out with news...I noticed broplems in reproducing streaming in Epiphany: youtube or rapidvideo video streaming fails at third or half time of reproduction so that I need to reload the page and restart again from the beginning; radio streaming (example mozart.radio.it) plays really buggy and needs buffering pause really frequently..
I tried midori and averything works great so...can anybody reproduce the same???or it's just me??

Thanks.

neubauten84

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Registered: 2010-02-27

Posts: 51

Re: Epiphany 3.16 buffering and streaming problems

I noticede other problems in surfing the net with Epiphany...can you correctly visualize the page it.yahoo.com or also www.archlinux.org???'cause to me they looks really ugly..

neubauten84

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Registered: 2010-02-27

Posts: 51

Re: Epiphany 3.16 buffering and streaming problems

Update:
Upgrading to Epiphany 3.17.1 (git version in aur) to surf the net is really better also in it.yahoo.com or www.archlinux.org...
Same problem in streaming side..

joe_silver

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Registered: 2015-04-21

Posts: 27

Re: Epiphany 3.16 buffering and streaming problems

Similar problem for me: this is my Facebook home page viewed with Epiphany:

joe_silver

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Registered: 2015-04-21

Posts: 27

Re: Epiphany 3.16 buffering and streaming problems

Bump.

Any idea? Am I the only one who is suffering this problem? I already tried cleaning the cache and the history.

aja

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Registered: 2013-06-27

Posts: 26

Re: Epiphany 3.16 buffering and streaming problems

Epiphany has lot of bugs and not on par with other browsers, hence it is better to stop using it and instead use other browsers.

Michael Catanzaro

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Registered: 2012-11-04

Posts: 50

Re: Epiphany 3.16 buffering and streaming problems

Hi, I'm one of the Epiphany developers. I don't have any problems displaying it.yahoo.com, www.facebook.com, or www.archlinux.org: they all load perfectly on my machine. Could you help me confirm a hunch as to what might be wrong, by right-clicking on those pages, selecting Inspect Element anywhere, and looking for errors in the web inspector? If you see any, please take a screenshot and attach it to this thread.

ooo

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Registered: 2013-04-10

Posts: 1,638

Re: Epiphany 3.16 buffering and streaming problems

it.yahoo.com and www.archlinux.org load just fine on my system with epiphany, but apparently on www.facebook.com I'm having similar issue as joe_silver. Here's a screenshot of errors in web inspector from facebook.com without logging in: http://oi60.tinypic.com/28pdf9.jpg

joe_silver

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Registered: 2015-04-21

Posts: 27

Re: Epiphany 3.16 buffering and streaming problems

Hi, I'm one of the Epiphany developers. I don't have any problems displaying it.yahoo.com, www.facebook.com, or www.archlinux.org: they all load perfectly on my machine. Could you help me confirm a hunch as to what might be wrong, by right-clicking on those pages, selecting Inspect Element anywhere, and looking for errors in the web inspector? If you see any, please take a screenshot and attach it to this thread.

Hi Michael,

All the elements in red (Scripts and Stylesheets) show the same error message as in this screenshot.

The page is completely blank besides the links on top, which lead to similarly broken webpages, with lots of errors of the same type.

Michael Catanzaro

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Registered: 2012-11-04

Posts: 50

Re: Epiphany 3.16 buffering and streaming problems

The bug is due to this commit to Arch's ca-certificates package: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … 5cf06cbef5

That commit seems to have been made thinking OpenSSL is the only user of the ca-certificates package, but Epiphany uses glib-networking. The error on Facebook is due to having removed the 1024-bit GTE CyberTrust Global Root certificate, which should not have been removed prior to 2017. (Or is it 2016? I think 2017.) Arch needs to either restore all those legacy certs, or accept that many sites will be broken in Epiphany. If anyone wants to file a bug report in the Arch bug tracker, that would be dandy.

It would be very nice for glib-networking to be more robust to issues like these, so that you can remove those terribly insecure 1024-bit roots, but someone needs to volunteer to deep-dive into glib-networking's certificate validation code, and it's not a priority for anyone because almost all GNOME developers use Fedora, which has not removed those certificates. For more info, see:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CA-Certificates
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750457

swiftscythe

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Registered: 2009-04-28

Posts: 132

Re: Epiphany 3.16 buffering and streaming problems

Any updates on the issue? Now my Facebook page seems to load, but not properly...

https://imgur.com/dR8lBVY

aja

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Registered: 2013-06-27

Posts: 26

Re: Epiphany 3.16 buffering and streaming problems

Forget Epiphany use Opera or Chromium, Epiphany has lot of issues and does not work smoothly, hangs often, so avoid it.

swiftscythe

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Registered: 2009-04-28

Posts: 132

Re: Epiphany 3.16 buffering and streaming problems

As of today, Facebook is working again

joe_silver

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Registered: 2015-04-21

Posts: 27

Re: Epiphany 3.16 buffering and streaming problems

Yes, here too.

It's a good and light browser, even if it lacks some features when compared with other browsers.

The only thing is that its processes WebKitProcess and WebKitNetworkProcess use A LOT of memory.

joe_silver

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Registered: 2015-04-21

Posts: 27

Re: Epiphany 3.16 buffering and streaming problems

EDIT:

well, to be honest there are still issues with some Youtube videos...