On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:03:44 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
I'm running Firefox under F8 and F9 on five different machines,
and it's
a pain on every one of them, albeit in slightly different ways; but the
differences differ, too.
The first thing they have in common is that it takes forever to
launch -- when it does launch. The second is that it mostly doesn't. It
will try, and the little blue dots will circle for a while, and the
window list on the panel will show a mark for it -- for a while.
Sometimes one or another window will flash up and disappear, usually too
fast even to identify.
[....]
I'm getting confused as between machines, which is which; but
Firefox has come up with another little nasty trick on at least two of
them : when it does launch, it does so in offline mode -- and then
complains because it can't refresh various sites.
Surely there has to be a setting somewhere for whether to launch
in online or offline mode? I haven't seen it, much less changed it on
purpose ...
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6;
Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.