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On Sun 21 Apr 2019 at 20:30:53 (-0700), peter@easthope.ca wrote:
>     From: David Wright <deblis@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.

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Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts. peter@easthope.ca - 2019-04-21 16:50 +0200
  Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts. Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-04-21 18:10 +0200
    Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts. peter@easthope.ca - 2019-04-22 04:30 +0200
      Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts. Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-04-23 16:10 +0200
  Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-21 23:20 +0200
    Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts. peter@easthope.ca - 2019-04-22 06:20 +0200
      Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-04-22 15:10 +0200
        Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts. "der.hans" <deb-user@LuftHans.com> - 2019-04-23 17:40 +0200
          Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts. Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-04-23 18:00 +0200
            Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-23 19:30 +0200
              Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts. "der.hans" <deb-user@LuftHans.com> - 2019-04-23 20:20 +0200
                Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-24 17:20 +0200
                Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts. "der.hans" <deb-user@LuftHans.com> - 2019-04-24 18:30 +0200
                Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-25 05:30 +0200
            Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts. "der.hans" <deb-user@LuftHans.com> - 2019-04-23 19:40 +0200
      Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-22 20:50 +0200
        Browser usage; was "Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts." peter@easthope.ca - 2019-04-22 22:50 +0200
          Re: Browser usage; was "Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox  starts." Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-04-23 09:40 +0200
            Re: Browser usage; was "Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts." rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-04-23 17:40 +0200
              Re: Browser usage; was "Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox  starts." Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-04-23 18:10 +0200
        Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts. <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-04-23 09:30 +0200
        Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-24 17:40 +0200
          Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts. Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2019-04-24 20:30 +0200
            Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-25 07:10 +0200
              Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts. Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2019-04-25 18:30 +0200
                Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-28 02:40 +0200
                Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts. Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2019-04-28 23:10 +0200

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