On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 10:00:50AM -0700, spiralofhope wrote:
> The most brute-force test is to create a whole new user profile:
>
> # (exit firefox)
> mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla-backup
> # (launch, re-test)
> # (exit firefox)
> rm -rf ~/.mozilla
> mv ~/.mozilla-backup ~/.mozilla
>

This is what I would call a "Microsoft Windows 95 approach": if it
does not work, uninstall it, reboot, reinstall it, light a candle
beside your screen, fiddle with the system registry, reboot again,
jump on one foot, pull the plug, cross your fingers, boot again,
rinse, repeat...

Is this really a solution? Then the most principled approach is
probably to stop using Firefox altogether. Seriously, we are not
forced to swallow any crap they want to shovel down our throat. In the
quest to beat IE and then to chase up Chrome, Firefox has become a
*hog*, which is able to do a thousand and more different things (in
most cases quite badly), and also happens to render HTML pages every
now and then.

I have been quite happy with surf lately. I only need firefox for the
rare case in which I need to access a few javascript-intensive
(crappy) websites for work reasons. And I am actively looking for an
alternative there.

Computing does not need to be like that. Things can still be done
properly.

:\

KatolaZ

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