On Tuesday 24 March 2015 09:47:40 Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 12:59:09PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Someone suggested it, and I was a sucker. :)  Both have now been
> > excised, no effect that I can hear.  But iceweasal is frozen again,
> > the *&%$ back button does NOT work on cbsnews.com.  Everyone but
> > bbcnews is playing with your controls, and cbs seems to be the worst
> > offender. When it refuses to go back, sometimes closing the tab
> > works, occasionally the close button on the browser works, but I
> > keep a root exec'd copy of htop running just so I can have the last
> > word.  And I have to use it about 25% of the time to exit iceweasal.
>
> Yep, Iceweasel is a *real* pig!

No moreso than my last experience with firefox.  See below...

> > But that problem is a separate
> > thread Request Entity too Large.  No clue it its related, but get
> > firefox will get a visit soon if I can't get this under control.
>
> Ummm, Iceweasel *IS* Firefox, just with the advertising removed. :)
>
And, last night after disabling new cookies, and nuking a lengthy list of 
them that had adv agency like names, my nightly tour of the webs 
mainsleave news sites was, for the first time in 3 or 4 years, 
enjoyable.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>


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