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  • January 27, 2012 at 5:52 pm #25940

    Dormoxx
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    Just random freezes and crashes out of nowhere when opening a new tab or two? Just wondering if I’m the only one.

    If this keeps up, I might have to go back to Firefox, sadly. >_>

    January 27, 2012 at 8:56 pm #25945

    Luke
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    My dad uses Chrome on his laptop and I’ve heard no complaints, so I guess you’re part of an exclusive club! You should use Firefox for this alone: http://subs2srs.sourceforge.net/rikaisama/#how_to_install JS!

    I wish they’d hurry up and add PDF reading into Firefox, one thing I miss from Chrome…

    January 28, 2012 at 9:36 am #25958

    Dormoxx
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    Well dang. That Rikaisama add-on does sound quite nice, though.

    And actually, I have PDF files opened by Chrome because I can’t stand the sluggishness of Acrobat on my craptastic Dell, lol.

    January 28, 2012 at 11:34 am #25962

    Aaron
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    I’ve been experiencing similar problems, lately. Sometimes it’s on Textfugu, sometimes it’s Youtube or other sites. I open a tab, and then all of the sudden Chrome stalls so badly that it locks my entire OS up. It takes a couple of minutes just to get Task Manager up so I can kill it.

    January 29, 2012 at 10:23 pm #26010

    yani
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    My chrome is fine, also isn’t Rikaikun like the same thing? Or am I mistaken…

    January 29, 2012 at 11:38 pm #26012

    Rioter
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    My chrome crashes when I try to close a youtube tab or I have too many tabs (maybe “too many” now, because before it wasn’t a problem).

    I thought I was alone in this :/ I’ll maybe have to go back to firefox too…

    January 30, 2012 at 7:48 am #26017

    Luke
    Member

    @Larisa Rikaisama has more features, one of the most notable being audio pronunciation when you hover over a word and press ‘F’

    January 31, 2012 at 3:49 pm #26164

    meowmix4jo
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    The crashing from videos is a flash problem not a chrome problem. You can fix it by switching to HTML5 youtube (http://www.youtube.com/html5) or just navigating to a page without flash before trying to close it.

    February 1, 2012 at 4:19 am #26174

    Ken
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    Yep, Flash (again)and Google people are aware of the problem.

    If switching to HTML5 didn’t work then you could try something that finally fixed it for me, crashed after only once, which is a much better improvement or maybe Google has fixed it since? Anyway here is how:
    1. option –> advanced option –> content setting –> Plugins –> disable individual plugins.
    2. click on +detail on top right corner.
    3. disable (oldest) Flash. There should be 2 Flash files.
    4. Restart.

    • This reply was modified 12 years, 3 months ago by  Ken.
    February 1, 2012 at 11:07 am #26180

    Hashi
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    We’ve also been receiving some feedback that since the redesign, people have had problems reading Japanese text on TextFugu with Chrome. If you guys have any problems like this, please email me (hashi@textfugu.com) and let me know.

    February 1, 2012 at 11:44 am #26188

    meowmix4jo
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    The Japanase text on Chrome is because IE and Fx will correctly use Japanese fonts when a font isn’t specified. Chrome however, will use a Chinese font. This bug has been known about for almost four years now, it finally got fixed last month on the nightly builds, it still hasn’t been pushed to release though. You can fix it by forcing a Japanese font. I fixed mine with this CSS:

    #content-wrap {
    font-family: Meiryo UI;
    }

    tbody tr td {
    font-family: Meiryo UI;
    }

    section.lesson p {
    font-family: Meiryo UI;
    }

    thead tr th {
    font-family: Meiryo UI;
    }

    February 1, 2012 at 11:56 am #26189

    Hashi
    Member

    I thought our generic serif/sans-serif would fix that, no? In any case, I’ll try adding the Meiryo font as a fallback, thanks for the help!

    EDIT: I’m also still not quite sure why this problem only seems to happen on Windows XP and Vista, but not Windows 7, any insight into that?

    • This reply was modified 12 years, 3 months ago by  Hashi.
    February 1, 2012 at 12:14 pm #26191

    meowmix4jo
    Member

    No the generic font would still default to a Chinese font. You should set the secondary to a common Japanese font such as MS PGothic or MS PMincho which have been included with Windows since 95, and the fallback to a generic family. It would default to that for anyone with those fonts, and then the generic for everyone else which would most likely mean Mac or Linux. It should probably be set something like this:

    Meiryo UI; MS PMincho; Serif

    Meiryo UI for anyone with Win 7 as it’s not avilable before that, PMincho for anyone on Windows 95-Vista, generic family for everyone else.

    I believe the problem does not exist on Mac, but it is an issue on Linux as well, at least on Fx. It happens on Win 7 too (I’m running Win 7), but it would probably be more common on XP as XP does not ship with Japanese support.

    • This reply was modified 12 years, 3 months ago by  meowmix4jo.
    February 1, 2012 at 12:57 pm #26198

    Hashi
    Member

    Viet gave me a nice long list of Japanese fallback fonts to include in TextFugu, so I threw those into our CSS. I booted up my virtual machine to test in Linux (Ubuntu 11.10), and everything seems to look okay there.

    Thanks a ton for all the help, shoot me an email with your address and I can send you some sweet fugu swag.

    And everybody, please let me know if you have any more problems with the site.

    February 3, 2012 at 5:22 pm #26304

    Dylan Sylvester
    Member

    Hey, Chrome on my PC isn’t displaying any of the Japanese characters, but Chrome on my laptop does just fine.. I tried adding Japanese as a langue, but nothing. Anyone know why/able to help?

    I should also note that other websites seem to display fine on my desktop. I used http://www.asahi.com/ as an example to chrck, and it seems to display fine.

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