Re: Browser Flakiness under Jessie -- Why?

[Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 at 05:30, Alan McConnell <alan@his.com> wrote:

Assembled Wisdom!

Using jessie, all the GUI browsers seem to be extremely flakey.
With iceweasel, I get, much too often "Well, This is Embarrassing".
With chromium, I get, much too often "Aw, Snap!".  I use lynx to
read some newspapers, and it never crashes.

I live in a retirement community, which has purchased, from Comcast,
a wi-fi installation which is almost always up, and continually
monitored.  The router I have been given is property of Comcast and/or
the community, and is state of the art.  So I don't believe my browser
problem has anything to do with my ISP.

Do others have this problem?  Is it part of the general unreliability of
jessie?

Thoughts, and possible assistance, appreciated.

Alan

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This won't be anything to do with your internet connection. That error happens when the browser can't recover the state of your previous session, on startup.

Jessie has moved to FireFox -- have you tried that?

As to "general unreliability of Jessie" I wonder what kind of dialogue you were hoping to start with a remark like that. Here of all places. Anyway, I've been using Jessie since it assumed the "stable" mantle from wheezy, and only see that error when I'd expect to ie when I do something stupid and crash the browser or when the machine doesn't power down properly eg after a power cut.

A week or two back there was a thread here where someone else was having a similar problem, unfortunately I don't remember the details. I suggest you check the archives of this list for June and July -- I'm sure it wasn't longer ago than that.

Mark