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



maybe set the homepage to a local file instead of an Internet site?

regards, Philip

Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 09/04/08 12:36, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> It doesn't carry over?
> 



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