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Re: Iceweasel S L O W to start when no Internet connection



On 2008-09-04 19:10, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 09/04/08 12:03, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> On 2008-09-04 16:36, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>>> Iceweasel takes forever (minutes :) to start when I have no
>>> immediate Internet connection.  That's very annoying, because, at
>>> my place of work, I can't have an Internet connection until I've
>>> logged in through a web page. There doesn't seem to be an option
>>> to start Iceweasel off line.  This is a recent change in its
>>> behavior.  Any thoughts?  (I'm very tempted just to go with the
>>> latest Firefox, and bypass the whole Iceweasel thing entirely,
>>> but I prefer to use Debian packaging where possible.)
>> 
>> On my lenny, I get a tick box option for offline start, if I start
>> by $ iceweasel -ProfileManager
>> 
>> (as has always been the case since ... I don't remember when.
>> Netscape 4?)
> 
> File->"Work Offline"

OP asked for an option *before* the start. The File menue is only
available after start.

-ProfileManager presents a little box before the start of the main program.

Johannes

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