Re: sound vanished with a reboot?
On Tuesday 24 March 2015 09:47:40 Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 12:59:09PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Someone suggested it, and I was a sucker. :) Both have now been
> > excised, no effect that I can hear. But iceweasal is frozen again,
> > the *&%$ back button does NOT work on cbsnews.com. Everyone but
> > bbcnews is playing with your controls, and cbs seems to be the worst
> > offender. When it refuses to go back, sometimes closing the tab
> > works, occasionally the close button on the browser works, but I
> > keep a root exec'd copy of htop running just so I can have the last
> > word. And I have to use it about 25% of the time to exit iceweasal.
>
> Yep, Iceweasel is a *real* pig!
No moreso than my last experience with firefox. See below...
> > But that problem is a separate
> > thread Request Entity too Large. No clue it its related, but get
> > firefox will get a visit soon if I can't get this under control.
>
> Ummm, Iceweasel *IS* Firefox, just with the advertising removed. :)
>
And, last night after disabling new cookies, and nuking a lengthy list of
them that had adv agency like names, my nightly tour of the webs
mainsleave news sites was, for the first time in 3 or 4 years,
enjoyable.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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