Re: Iceweasel S L O W to start when no Internet connection
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 10:36:09 -0400
From: Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com>
To: Debian User Lists <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Iceweasel S L O W to start when no Internet connection
Resent-Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 14:36:30 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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.)
I'm on an up-to-date testing, amd64 system.
Patrick
From my experience, that problem goes back to Mozilla, and, before that,
to Netscape.
That happened with Debian 4.0, Debian 3.1, Debian 3.0, and, from memory,
Red Hat 5.1 onwards (when I was using Red Hat, before it became a
Microsoft clone with its commercialisation and deceptive packaging with
RH 8 or 9, when it didn't work anymore)
If no Internet connection was present, the web browser would cause the
system to hang, and, that would happen both when loading the web
browser, and, during a web browser session, when the Internet connection
broke.
It still happens.
I just put it down to part of the instability of the software, which has
been a long term issue.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
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Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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