Why is Firefox such a beast?? -- New trouble

[Beartooth]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:03:44 +0000, Beartooth wrote:

> I'm running Firefox under F8 and F9 on five different machines, and it's
> a pain on every one of them, albeit in slightly different ways; but the
> differences differ, too.
> 
> 	The first thing they have in common is that it takes forever to
> launch -- when it does launch. The second is that it mostly doesn't. It
> will try, and the little blue dots will circle for a while, and the
> window list on the panel will show a mark for it -- for a while.
> Sometimes one or another window will flash up and disappear, usually too
> fast even to identify.
	[....]

	I'm getting confused as between machines, which is which; but 
Firefox has come up with another little nasty trick on at least two of 
them : when it does launch, it does so in offline mode -- and then 
complains because it can't refresh various sites.

	Surely there has to be a setting somewhere for whether to launch 
in online or offline mode? I haven't seen it, much less changed it on 
purpose ...

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6;
Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.