On Sun 21 Apr 2019 at 20:30:53 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> > Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 16:13:11 -0500 > > I run two instances of FF, one as me (for banking etc) and one as > > another user (for browsing). > > Interesting. Thanks. For banking & etc. you have a dedicated user id > and login?
The other way round: I bank as me, and browse as user "flash", hence $ my-deblis-on-flashfirefox which looks after changing user and allowing flash to display on the X display. (It also checks that I don't try to run a browser if I'm not using the most recent Debian version on that particular host.) Thus, my own files are inaccessible by the flash browser. > Drifting off the subject, but the banking I use invokes javascript. I > would have thought that unnecessary. Should be possible to accomplish > the results with processing on the server and HTML5 on the client. > Technology bloat? Yes. Banks, like everyone else, seem to feel the need to indulge their graphics fantasies on their websites. I guess it's pandering to the smart phone generation. Speaking of which, I guess we're lucky to still have Internet banking on computers; so much is now aimed at mobiles. For a period, I had to login to Chase twice to get a proper interface—the first login would give me the mobile's site, with just two impotent buttons, period. > > I just checked out clean shutdowns and restarts with my own > > instance of FF and it's all OK. > > OK, thanks. The complaint at firefox startup here is probably only > following a crash of firefox. Curt's suggestion to set > browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes to 0 seems appropriate. > > > Does the behaviour reported in your OP cause you *great* concern? > > No. Just wastes time. Opening a simple local HTML home page requires > roughly a minute rather than roughly a second. I tend to forget that, because my /etc/hosts file has ~14000 lines, pages appear a lot faster here. > > I tried Opera on a slow laptop ... > > Thanks for mentioning that. Yes, disappointing. The fix, for me, was /etc/hosts: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ The only downside (which I don't understand) is that # scp -p <TAB><TAB> threatens to list ~14000 filename completions (IOW every hostname in /etc/hosts), but *only* as root. Cheers, David.
