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

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

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"

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