Firefox Quantum and Firefox ESR on the same machine

Hi, I need to use Java within Firefox for some network tools that require it. Is there a way to use both Firefox Quantum and Firefox ESR on the same machine? I spend quite some time to get Quantum to work close to what I and I don't want to lose that. Robin _

Re: Firefox Quantum and Firefox ESR on the same machine

On 26/02/18 20:07, Fernando Cassia wrote: On 2/27/18, Robin Laing wrote: Hi, I need to use Java within Firefox for some network tools that require it. Is there a way to use both Firefox Quantum and Firefox ESR on the same machine? I spend quite some time to get Quantum to work close to what

Adding an application to Fedora

Hello, There is some discussion on a different list about adding an application to Fedora. I looked at the web site https://developer.fedoraproject.org/start.html and is this all that someone starts from? How about taking over a project that seems abandoned? Thanks in advance. Rob

Re: Adding an application to Fedora

On 22/03/18 05:17, Markku Kolkka wrote: Robin Laing kirjoitti 22.3.2018 klo 2.20: Hello, There is some discussion on a different list about adding an application to Fedora.  I looked at the web site https://developer.fedoraproject.org/start.html and is this all that someone starts from

Re: Adding an application to Fedora

On 22/03/18 06:37, chicago wrote: Start by writing a bug report and following up at least once a week. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org I have done that.

Help debug a network issue

Hello, I am trying to trace down a problem with a laptop that when it goes into suspend for any reason, the network won't come back up. Only a reboot will enable the wired network. This problem started in February after a kernel update with Fedora 26. Upgraded to Fedora 27 today and the pro

Re: Help debug a network issue

On 25/03/18 17:34, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 03/25/2018 02:49 PM, Robin Laing wrote: I am trying to trace down a problem with a laptop that when it goes into suspend for any reason, the network won't come back up.  Only a reboot will enable the wired network. Have you tried unloadin

Re: Help debug a network issue

On 25/03/18 17:34, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 03/25/2018 02:49 PM, Robin Laing wrote: I am trying to trace down a problem with a laptop that when it goes into suspend for any reason, the network won't come back up.  Only a reboot will enable the wired network. Have you tried unloadin

Re: Help debug a network issue

I have been busy and unable to look at this until today. On 26/03/18 01:05, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 03/25/2018 07:45 PM, Robin Laing wrote: Network controller is: Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 0c) Module is

Re: Help debug a network issue

On 26/03/18 11:57, Ulf Volmer wrote: On 26.03.2018 08:40, Robin Laing wrote: sudo modprobe -r r8169 sudo modprobe r1869 So, what is my next step in finding out why this won't restart on suspend? you can place a script for automatically load/unload your network driver. see

Processes not closing on logout

Hello, I have a large number of processes that don't close on logout and it creates problems if I want to unmount the partition that is used by that user. Most look related to gnome which I am not running in KDE. I start with sddm as a login manager. I use multiple sessions and if I open a

Re: Turning off LEDs on MSI GM10 gaming mouse

On 20/09/2018 18:57, Ed Greshko wrote: On 9/21/18 8:22 AM, George N. White III wrote: Some wireless mice do work with some USB KVM's, so wireless may still be an option. Besides, Kensington makes a wired USB trackball. https://www.kensington.com/us/us/4493/k64325/expert-mouse-wired-trackball

Re: Is KDE dead ? Was Re: Stable Release Updates

ame thing when Gnome makes it's change. It will be interesting if Mono is pushed into Gnome to the point that RedHad cannot work around it. Could KDE become the default Fedora desktop? Some of my family members prefer Gnome. -- Robin Laing -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject

Re: Rolling Release Model(s), Fedora Discussion

ff upgrade Ubuntu machines with a basic click and wait. I have upgraded from F10 to F11 with minor issue. I guess what I am saying is there needs to be a way for the new user to keep their machine updated without all the headaches. This is why some will stick with Windows. Only needs to be re-

Re: Change tracking problem with OpenOffice--options settings don't persist

getting caught up on the list. I have not tried what you are asking but I have found that starting OOo from the command line can show what is going wrong on startup. I do know that there are differences between the Original OOo versions and the Fedora versions that make it hard t

Re: strange prompt for password protected partition

2 over Xmas with encrypted partitions. Other that anaconda not liking it, it worked on the second reboot. In both cases, multiple encrypted partitions. It is nice to see the bug though as I am about to upgrade (clean install) my main machine. -- Robin Laing -- users mailing list users@list

Re: Demand for LUKS password blocks boot

tem cannot be accessed unless the password is entered. Maybe my concept of encrypted partitions is different than yours. -- Robin Laing -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: 24 hours format in gdm

full ISO format by default or change the whole system? -- Robin Laing -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: 'R' statistics package install on Fedora 12

ols and applications that I read about and then find out that they are already available from the various repositories. -- Robin Laing -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Best way to troubleshoot intermittant lockups on F12

m your laptop and see if some process starts going ballistic. This is what I find with the VLC and it starts using up memory and pushes the machine into a massive swap process. One time I got an error message like yours but my machine didn't die. It seemed that the process had died and s

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

outh. I won't purchase an ATI card without reading some good reviews. Before Xmas, I didn't read many with Linux and ATI. I stuck with nVidia. I know the frustration of dealing with bugs and closed source drivers but that is a price I am willing to pay for a system that I can use a work and home. -- Robin Laing -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Blacklisting Nouveau

't run and you get an error message. Been through that route. FWIW, I do run the Nouveau on a laptop that mainly is for word processing. No 3d required, yet but all other computers use 3d. -- Robin Laing -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscript

Re: which version of fedora to install

ne laptop is an issue. I have F11 on one machine that is having more problems that the F12. I will be upgrading to see if the problem is still there. -- Robin Laing -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.

Re: More on firefox and one website

. Try again. -- Robin Laing -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

Microsoft. But that is me. Lets not forget that part of our goal is to get more and more people to use Linux as well as supporting OSS. This type of debate, though good for the more advance community isn't good for the new user that wants to play Tux Racer and watch You Tube videos. -- Rob

Re: Blacklisting Nouveau

ibutions. I don't recommend Fedora to anybody that doesn't have some experience with Linux. I would really appreciate it if nVidia, ATI or Intel would create RPM's for their own cards so we could deal with them directly. Of course if you have a bug, then you have to remove the driv

UEFI issue for dual boot.

Hello, Successfully installed F19 (a few months ago) with UEFI and it boots into Fedora with no issues. Trying to boot into Windows gives an error about finding the EFI files. On investigation, I find that there are two EFI boot enabled partitions. One has the Windows files (/dev/sda1) and

Re: UEFI issue for dual boot.

On 2014-02-01 22:09, Paolo Galtieri wrote: On 02/01/2014 08:18 PM, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, Successfully installed F19 (a few months ago) with UEFI and it boots into Fedora with no issues. Trying to boot into Windows gives an error about finding the EFI files. On investigation, I find that

Re: UEFI issue for dual boot.

On 2014-02-01 23:57, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 2 February 2014 06:18, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, Successfully installed F19 (a few months ago) with UEFI and it boots into Fedora with no issues. Trying to boot into Windows gives an error about finding the EFI files. On investigation, I find that

Re: Libreoffice problem related to PDF forms

On 2014-01-28 03:57, Joachim Backes wrote: Hi all, I don't know if that's the right place for my question, but let me try: I'running F20 with libreoffice-4.1.4.2-5.fc20.x86_64 including libreoffice-pdfimport-4.1.4.2-5.fc20. Additionally I have some PDF file with form entries (printable, but but

Re: Libreoffice problem related to PDF forms

On 2014-02-02 14:34, Joachim Backes wrote: On 02/02/2014 09:51 PM, Robin Laing wrote: On 2014-01-28 03:57, Joachim Backes wrote: Hi all, snip Anybody can explain this? Kind regards Joachim Backes Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) Kernel-3.12.9-300.fc20.x86_64 Joachim Backes https://www

Re: Disable NetworkManager

On 2014-01-29 04:56, Sergio Belkin wrote: Finally I've managed to do it, there is a website that was useful: http://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Fedora_19&p=initial_conf&f=3 The machine will be used as server, and I prefer to disable all nonessential "automagic" HTH 2014-01-29 Frank Murp

Re: UEFI issue for dual boot. (Solved)

On 2014-02-02 00:03, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 2 February 2014 08:57, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 2 February 2014 06:18, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, Successfully installed F19 (a few months ago) with UEFI and it boots into Fedora with no issues. Trying to boot into Windows gives an error about

How do I select which monitor kdm will display login on?

Hello, I have a dual monitor, well, one monitor and one projector that I have configured for presentations. System is using F20. Presently when I start the computer, kdm's login prompt is on the projector instead of the monitor. There are no settings in the system settings configuration t

Re: How do I select which monitor kdm will display login on?

On 2014-03-09 06:00, Dave Ulrick wrote: On Sun, 9 Mar 2014, Robin Laing wrote: I have a dual monitor, well, one monitor and one projector that I have configured for presentations. System is using F20. Presently when I start the computer, kdm's login prompt is on the projector instead o

Re: AMD Catalyst Control Center doesn't work

On 2014-03-12 08:17, Rex Dieter wrote: Marko Vojinovic wrote: ATI is known to have a notoriously lousy support for Linux in general and Fedora in particular. For their low-end and oldish cards, they provide specs on which the Linux community has built the open-source radeon driver (which works

Re: How do I select which monitor kdm will display login on?

On 2014-03-09 22:51, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/10/14 12:45, jdow wrote: On 2014/03/09 21:29, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/10/14 12:14, Robin Laing wrote: On 2014-03-09 06:00, Dave Ulrick wrote: On Sun, 9 Mar 2014, Robin Laing wrote: I have a dual monitor, well, one monitor and one projector that

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

On 2014-03-15 07:45, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I'm on the lookout for a reliable all-in-one mono laser printer to use under Fedora. Must be networked, preferably wireless, and both print and scan functions must be supported with standard tools (CUPS etc.) The Samsung Xpress M2070W looks like a

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

On 2014-03-16 04:18, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 05:03 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 13:45:31 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Not so easy in fact. Most manufacturers make you select 2 out of {laser, all-in-one, wireless} at least in a reasonable p

Re: computer

On 2014-03-11 16:34, Dustin Kempter wrote: so it has dual nvidia cards, do you know how to config for 2 external monitors? On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Gilboa Davara wrote: I found Fedora just seems to work by default. Change video cards, plug in monitor(s) and it works. The only i

Re: computer

On 2014-03-11 12:28, Mark Haney wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The company I work for uses Lenovo workstation class T and W series laptops. I know that CentOS, Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Fedora all seem to work really well. The engineers use do a lot of 3D cad work without

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I,?“Why?”)

On 2014-03-23 13:49, Powell, Michael wrote: Then they need to turn around at once! Leaving users in the dark about what`s going on makes things more difficult for them. Taking away choices limits the use of the software to the point where it eventually becomes unusable. Good design, clarity, g

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I,?“Why?”)

On 2014-03-25 02:22, lee wrote: "Powell, Michael" writes: It doesn`t give you choices. It leaves you in the dark about that it is somehow possible to use an non-gui installer and to do a minimal install. It leaves you in the dark about what exactly happens when you do the partitioning and wi

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I,?“Why?”)

On 2014-03-25 13:26, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/25/2014 12:10 PM, Powell, Michael wrote: I disagree; if a user is presented with the following filesystem choices, btrfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, JFS, reiser4, reiserFS, and ZFS, and each is presented equally with a single paragraph describing its benefits, u

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

On 2014-03-24 08:25, Liam Proven wrote: On 23 March 2014 21:56, lee wrote: Installing on a laptop requires encrypted partitions. They can be stolen too easily. I have never ever used this and never expect or plan to. I suggest that your blanket statement is too sweeping. http://xkcd.com/5

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)

On 2014-03-22 10:38, lee wrote: Matthew Miller writes: On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 04:19:05PM +0100, lee wrote: And on top of that, what is the Fedora-way of replacing gnome --- which I find totally useless --- with fvwm, which perfectly does what I want? It sounds like you want to do a minim

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

On 2014-03-23 10:19, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 16:35:20 +0100 lee wrote: One of the weaknesses of Fedora, in my view, is the apparent lack of interest in what users actually want or need. +1 The distro that actually seems to care (at the moment) about users is Linux Mint (thoug

Re: Is it irrelevant what users of FOSS think? (Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?"))

On 2014-03-25 05:29, lee wrote: Tim writes: I reckon it's the case for most OSs that /most/ users don't really care much about what they're using, nor how it works. The large number of clueless people using computers would seem to be evidence of that. The number of clueless people is also l

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

On 2014-03-26 00:13, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 03/26/2014 06:45 AM, Robin Laing wrote: On 2014-03-24 08:25, Liam Proven wrote: On 23 March 2014 21:56, lee wrote: Nowadays you may have SSDs which supposedly last longer when not written much to but mostly read from, so you might put the

Re: Is it irrelevant what users of FOSS think? (Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?"))

On 2014-03-26 03:12, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:14:44AM -0600, Robin Laing wrote: I would really like to see Fedora move to a constant flux where applications are developed and then pushed out as updates which are actually upgrades. It is Fedora policy to not do that

Re: Is it irrelevant what users of FOSS think? (Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?"))

On 2014-03-28 03:20, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Robin Laing wrote: On 2014-03-26 03:12, Suvayu Ali wrote: It is Fedora policy to not do that: <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Philosophy> I know this and I don't like it when

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I,?“Why?”)

On 2014-03-28 10:54, Bill Davidsen wrote: Paul Cartwright wrote: On 03/26/2014 01:32 AM, Robin Laing wrote: I`m not an expert with Fedoras installers in any way. This is simply my "user experience". Maybe the "user experience" the installer provides should be different

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I,?“Why?”)

On 2014-03-28 14:23, Max wrote: On 03/25/2014 02:24 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mar 25, 2014, at 2:41 AM, lee wrote: Chris Murphy writes: Partitioning took me about three hours with the installer of F19, with a very simple setup and not even data to preserve and neither RAID, nor encryption

Re: Steam on Fedora

On 2014-03-26 11:03, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 03/26/2014 09:17 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: For more information visit https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9938-EYZB-7457. A glance at the above URL reveals that the problem is probably due to Steam being a 32-bit binary and I

Re: How do I select which monitor kdm will display login on?

On 2014-03-09 06:48, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: On 03/09/2014 01:20 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/09/14 17:17, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, I have a dual monitor, well, one monitor and one projector that I have configured for presentations. System is using F20. Presently when I start the computer

Re: Unable to get projector to work

On 2014-04-03 01:31, Henrik Frisk wrote: Hi all, I reaqlize that the info I'm giving here might be to little to give any good suggestions, but I'm giving it a try nevertheless. I have a MBP with the following graphics card: VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 650M M

Re: Need advice

On 2014-04-16 22:19, Rachmayanto Surjadi wrote: Thanks a lot to everybody who responded my question. I got the impression that for production better use non-Fedora (Centos, RH) so as to minimize the frequent-updates work. For development stage it seems that using Fedora would not be a big issue.

Re: Dual Boot System

On 2014-04-17 01:31, Javier Perez wrote: Hi Arthur That is exactly the scenario that I want to avoid by having separate /home and soft-linking the Data partition. I wonder should I set /var on the HDD to save wear and tear on the SSD? JP On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Arthur Dent wrote:

Re: 8 Things Mainstream Media Doesn't Have the Courage to Tell You | Alternet - Sorry

On 2014-04-07 12:59, David wrote: On 4/7/2014 2:15 PM, David wrote: My bad for this. Sent to the wrong address. Thanks for the link. I was sent t

Re: Is it irrelevant what users of FOSS think? (Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?"))

On 2014-03-31 22:42, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Robin Laing wrote: When a feature that is used is broken, even to the point an application crashes, and the fix requires the new version, then it is in issue in the usability of Fedora. This has been my biggest

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I,?“Why?”)

On 2014-04-01 00:00, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/31/2014 09:01 PM, Robin Laing wrote: I use a basic /home on the root drive with each users directory mounted to their username mount point. So each user has their own partition? Do you also use LVM so that you can create/resize or remove them as

Re: Fedora *is* for servers! [was Re: Need advice]

On 2014-04-19 06:25, Tim wrote: Rick Stevens wrote: Fedora is, by definition, bleeding edge. Ralf Corsepius: No, Fedora is not supposed to the bleeding edge. It's supposed to be the cutting edge, with some occasional warts sometimes. I would say, by way of what it actually is, it is bleedin

Re: Fedora *is* for servers! [was Re: Need advice]

As are many things... Time is the only truly non-renewable resource. --Russell Which we seem never to have enough of. :) Cheers. Happy chocolate day. Robin -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: UEFI Big Drive question (possible issue)

On 2014-05-06 18:18, CS_DBA wrote: Hi all; we've just ordered a new server (http://www.spectrumservers.com/ssproducts/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=26&idproduct=787) Originally I tried to simply upgrade an older server with more drive space, I installed 6 4TB drives and did a new OS install but th

Re: Aaugh! Sound devices changed again!

On 2015-09-02 16:10, jdow wrote: On 2015-09-02 05:20, Ian Malone wrote: On 2 September 2015 at 12:27, Tom Horsley wrote: Every single fedora release, and sometimes even just from an update where there wasn't a full release, the sound devices get renumbered or renamed. The last time I tried to

Re: more external display woes... SOLVED (sort of)

On 2015-09-11 20:44, CS DBA wrote: F22 works until I update, closing this thread for a more appropriate one, sent a new email: Fedora 22 - no external monitor after kernel update On 09/11/2015 05:16 PM, CS DBA wrote: All; I bought a new Lenovo X1 Carbon 3rd generation, installed Fedora 21 a

yum configure to only download one package at a time

Hello, I am trying to upgrade my system and through our corporate firewall/network filters/etc, the bandwidth is limited. Today while doing an upgrade, yum was downloading five packages at a time. Due to the limits, I was running into a under X bytes for 60 seconds restart. The limit is s

Re: yum configure to only download one package at a time

On 2015-12-17 17:45, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/17/2015 04:05 PM, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, I am trying to upgrade my system and through our corporate firewall/network filters/etc, the bandwidth is limited. Today while doing an upgrade, yum was downloading five packages at a time. Due to the

Re: yum configure to only download one package at a time

On 2015-12-18 01:34, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:05:21 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, I am trying to upgrade my system and through our corporate firewall/network filters/etc, the bandwidth is limited. Today while doing an upgrade, yum was downloading five packages at a

Re: yum configure to only download one package at a time

On 2015-12-18 06:49, Robin Laing wrote: On 2015-12-18 01:34, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:05:21 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: Hello, I am trying to upgrade my system and through our corporate firewall/network filters/etc, the bandwidth is limited. Today while doing an upgrade

Re: installation on a HP250 as UEFI

On 2015-12-28 08:14, maderios wrote: I've had that on a work laptop (also an HP). You can try to disable secure boot in the UEFI screen, or you can try and tell the USB stick to treat the laptop like a BIOS machine. The problem is that changing those settings now will break the existing Windows

Re: Looking for a printer

On 31/12/15 12:47, William Henry wrote: I have a HP Laserjet Pro 200 and it meets all your criteria. You will change cartridges less often but they are expensive. William P.S. I had no idea tweakers were that into ink cartridges! Sent from my iPhone On Dec 31, 2015, at 11:45 AM, Thomas Came

Re: nvidia-304xx broken with new kernel

On 29/01/16 13:50, David A. De Graaf wrote: The latest two kernels and the nvidia-304xx module are incompatible. That is, the nvidia.ko module built by akmod-nvidia-304xx won't load. That means that my three machines with older nvidia video cards (one built into the mobo) are stuck running the ol

kernel source - "make prepare" - error

Hello, I am trying to compile a module and having a problem. When I run make oldconfig I have no issues but when I try to run "make prepare", I get an error. 4.3.4-300.fc23.x86_64]# make oldconfig scripts/kconfig/conf --oldconfig Kconfig # # configuration written to .config 4.3.4-300.fc23

Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

For those that like to control how sites track you, you may want to think again about using Firefox 44. As of now, the cookies settings don't have the option to "Ask Me Every Time" Choice is to accept or deny all cookies from a site. I for one, like to know if I am being asked for cookies or n

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

On 02/02/16 21:58, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: Why would they remove it? Was it a big maintenance burden? Seems something reasonable to keep around. There was an issue with poorly written sites opening hundreds of cookie requests. So to fix that problem they now have two choices. Accept or do

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

On 02/02/16 23:02, Robin Laing wrote: On 02/02/16 21:58, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: Why would they remove it? Was it a big maintenance burden? Seems something reasonable to keep around. There was an issue with poorly written sites opening hundreds of cookie requests. So to fix that problem

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

On 03/02/16 03:35, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 11:13:30PM -0700, Robin Laing wrote: This is a pain. I am frustrated and my productivity has taken a nose dive. I'm curious. Why not use one of the many more sophisticated cookie manager add-ons? https://addons.mozilla.o

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

On 04/02/16 09:04, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 04 February 2016, Tom Rivers sent: I do know of a free one that is privacy oriented and it works really well: https://duckduckgo.com/about I can't say that I find them anywhere near as good as Google. Much as it pains me to say it. I d

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

On 04/02/16 14:01, stan wrote: On Thu, 04 Feb 2016 21:47:00 +1030 Tim wrote: On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 10:18 -0700, stan wrote: I doubt that you are experiencing traditional cookie tracking. Hmm, I reckon they probably still do that. I'd agree. But my bank, to increase security, tried to use

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

On 04/02/16 12:11, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/04/2016 06:50 AM, Tom Rivers wrote: On 2/4/2016 9:36 AM, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: After (two?) mentions to Google search, I wonder if any you know of any paid web search engines? I don't know about search engines that cost money, but I do know of a fre

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

On 03/02/16 07:33, g wrote: On 02/03/16 04:35, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 11:13:30PM -0700, Robin Laing wrote: This is a pain. I am frustrated and my productivity has taken a nose dive. I'm curious. Why not use one of the many more sophisticated cookie manager ad

Re: Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

On 05/02/16 23:30, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 05 February 2016, g sent: something that amazes me is that with all the add-ons that have been written for cookie handling, none have a feature that ties in to url bar or bookmarks that will disable/enable cookies with out user having to make

Fedora 23 - Davmail - Thunderbird - localhost blacklisted

For years I have been using Davmail on my workstation to get my email into Thunderbird at work from Exchange Server. There is no POP access and never could get any mapi suggestions to work. Upgrading from F20 to F23 via a clean install of F23 and moving my home partition to F23 and I am stuck

Par2cmdline with non normal characters.

Hello, I am trying to run par2 to repair an archive that has an apostrophe in the name. Not a single quote. This archive was created on Windows. File name should be Joe’s file.part01.rar If I do ls I get Joe?s file.part01.rar ls -b I get Joe\302\222s\ file.part01.ra

Re: Par2cmdline with non normal characters.

On 14/05/16 18:58, Pittigher, Raymond wrote: From: Robin Laing Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2016 8:25 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Par2cmdline with non normal characters. Hello, I am trying to run par2 to repair an archive that has an

Re: Par2cmdline with non normal characters.

On 14/05/16 21:55, c...@zip.com.au wrote: On 14May2016 18:25, Robin Laing wrote: I am trying to run par2 to repair an archive that has an apostrophe in the name. Not a single quote. This archive was created on Windows. Is there any reason you can't just rename the file by hand, wit

Re: a compatibility question: AMD Radeon HD8200 R3 series

On 17/06/16 08:44, Tim wrote: Hi, Does anyone have any good/bad experience with this graphics chipset: On-motherboard AMD Radeon HD8200 R3 series I was offered a reasonable price for a system using it, but really don't want to have to deal with something that's going to be pain. Last year I

Re: a compatibility question: AMD Radeon HD8200 R3 series

On 19/06/16 22:43, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/19/2016 05:12 PM, Robin Laing wrote: I would have to do a reboot to know the onboard video. Use this: lspci | grep VGA Doesn't even need root. HTH, HAND. Doesn't show the onboard video. Tried that before I posted. I only get the Nvid

Re: a compatibility question: AMD Radeon HD8200 R3 series

On 19/06/16 23:44, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 06/19/2016 05:12 PM, Robin Laing wrote: Last year I purchased a motherboard with onboard AMD graphics. A real nightmare. Check the AMD site for support for the video card. As it turned out, AMD dropped support for the chipset and their web site states

Re: a compatibility question: AMD Radeon HD8200 R3 series

On 20/06/16 08:30, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2016-06-18 at 00:14 +0930, Tim wrote: Does anyone have any good/bad experience with this graphics chipset: On-motherboard AMD Radeon HD8200 R3 series I'm keeping watch on this thread, and have seen the five replies, so far. I can say things for and agains

Fedora 24 install fail

Trying to install Fedoar 24 to a new machine. System freezes on the install just after and EDAC sbridge, - couldn't find mci handler. Used to have an message about KVM before but enabled VT in bios and that disappeared. Tried Fedora 24 live and Fedora 24 KDE live with the same problem. ASUS

Re: Fedora 24 install fail

On 25/06/16 23:45, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 06/25/2016 08:58 PM, Robin Laing wrote: Trying to install Fedoar 24 to a new machine. System freezes on the install just after and EDAC sbridge, - couldn't find mci handler. It freezes while booting the installer or during the install? --

Re: rpmfusion for F24

On 27/06/16 17:28, Clifford Snow wrote: I use the non free rpmfusion for Nvidia drivers. (The nouveau doesn't work for my card, no or insufficient thermal controls.) Where is the best place to ask for drivers compiled for the latest kernel, 4.5.7-300? Thanks, Clifford Just installed a new syst

Re: Nouveau, Oh No!

On 01/07/16 05:46, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 12:40:50 +0200 Matthew Colton wrote: Additionally, using the akmod-nvidia as opposed to relying on rpmfusion to supply kmods will free you from having to wait or worry about rpmfusion repositories keeping in sync with released kernels.

Re: No video from Gigabyte GT710 graphics card

On 05/07/16 15:28, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 05:25 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/06/16 05:14, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2016-07-05 at 13:55 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 05 Jul 2016 18:47:20 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Enable the rpmfusion repo and

Re: Strange messages from sudo dnf repoquery --unsatisfied after upgrade from F23 to F24.

On 05/07/16 15:31, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, I have issued the command specified in the subject as recommended on site https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade to see if there are any old packages that should be removed because they would not be working properly anyway, and received

dual boot - Windows 10 upgrade.

I need to do the windows 10 upgrade on a dual boot laptop. Any serious worries I need to watch out for? Thank you in advance. Robin -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedorap

Re: dual boot - Windows 10 upgrade.

On 13/07/16 20:38, Doug wrote: On 07/13/2016 07:47 PM, Robin Laing wrote: I need to do the windows 10 upgrade on a dual boot laptop. Any serious worries I need to watch out for? Thank you in advance. Robin -- I did this twice. In both cases I had a dual-boot Windows plus Linux / and /home

Re: dual boot - Windows 10 upgrade. [success]

On 13/07/16 18:47, Robin Laing wrote: I need to do the windows 10 upgrade on a dual boot laptop. Any serious worries I need to watch out for? Thank you in advance. Robin I thought I would post my experience. I started with the fear that it was going to create many headaches. I was wrong

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