Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

2010-08-27 Thread Sohail Mirza
I believe the single .jar file for local chrome content is coming to Firefox 4. I'm not sure what the implications are to the issue of restarting upon updating though. Sohail Mirza On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:19 AM, Jan Claeys wrote: > Op donderdag 26-08-2010 om 00:40 uur [tijdzone +0200], schr

Re: [Ayatana] Browser Offline Message

2010-08-27 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 15:28, Bilal Akhtar wrote: > > I don't understand why Firefox (or Internet Explorer) has an offline > > mode at all. > > It is very much helpful for DSL users as well. Sometimes, I want to > avoid my browser add-ons from unnecessarily accessing web resources > while someth

Re: [Ayatana] USB Device Removal Indicator

2010-08-27 Thread David Hamm
Its a hardware thing. http://www.debianhelp.org/node/11551 . Probably would be a pain in the ass to have it automatically do that for all devices. Would have to manually code for all the different devices. Best off just finding a drive that spins down automatically (good hardware), I know the one

Re: [Ayatana] Browser Offline Message

2010-08-27 Thread Bilal Akhtar
> I don't understand why Firefox (or Internet Explorer) has an offline > mode at all. It is very much helpful for DSL users as well. Sometimes, I want to avoid my browser add-ons from unnecessarily accessing web resources while something large is being downloaded or I am voice-chatting. signatur

Re: [Ayatana] USB Device Removal Indicator

2010-08-27 Thread Scott E. Armitage
I'm not suggesting powering down the entire device (i.e. the controller chip), but spinning down and "parking" the hard drive. This is supposed to be supported by all modern hard drives, but is something that I have found to be hit-and-miss, and wholly unintuitive in all operating systems I have wo

Re: [Ayatana] Browser Offline Message

2010-08-27 Thread Jan Claeys
Op woensdag 18-08-2010 om 08:38 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Frederik Nnaji: > > I don't understand why Firefox (or Internet Explorer) has an offline > > mode at all. > it used to be helpful, when users had to worry a lot more about quota > on their DSL.. It's not so much about quota but about

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

2010-08-27 Thread Jan Claeys
Op donderdag 26-08-2010 om 00:40 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Remco: > Does anyone know why Firefox breaks down so horribly after each minor > update? No other program does that. Firefox uses a bunch of JavaScript, XUL (= XML), CSS, image, etc. files for its UI, and to me it seems like it doesn'