Re: [DNG] Firefox-esr freezes ASCII

2019-07-22 Thread Yevgeny Kosarzhevsky via Dng
On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 at 14:09, Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: > To do normal browsing, I am using Waterfox which is Firefox without > the late many 'cool' additions. You can also try palemoon, I am using it for many things on devuan. -- Regards, Yevgeny ___

Re: [DNG] Firefox-esr freezes ASCII

2019-07-16 Thread Stephane Ascoet
From: Steve Litt What browser do you use instead, Edward. All browsers suck, and I'm still looking for a good one. Did you try Netsurf? There is Midori too, but it installs too much dependencies. -- Sincerely, Stephane Ascoet ___ Dng mailing list Dng

Re: [DNG] Firefox-esr freezes ASCII

2019-07-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 02:02:02PM -0700, spiralofhope wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 06:24:56 -0400 > fsmithred via Dng wrote: > > > What I do when it starts to slow down is ctrl-alt-F2, log in and > > start killing programs. Thunderbird is usually on that kill list, > > because it takes a lot of r

Re: [DNG] Firefox-esr freezes ASCII

2019-07-12 Thread spiralofhope
On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 06:24:56 -0400 fsmithred via Dng wrote: > What I do when it starts to slow down is ctrl-alt-F2, log in and > start killing programs. Thunderbird is usually on that kill list, > because it takes a lot of ram, too. If I wait too long to do that, it > freezes. At some point, even

Re: [DNG] Firefox-esr freezes ASCII

2019-07-09 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 06:24:56 -0400, fsmithred wrote in message <72121d31-c37a-3b43-1ebb-0cb264310...@gmail.com>: > On 7/9/19 4:34 AM, Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: > > For the information of everyone: > > > > I would like to inform all those concerned that firefox-esr is > > causing ASCII to free

Re: [DNG] Firefox-esr freezes ASCII

2019-07-09 Thread Dimitris via Dng
you should also check if firefox is running something malicious from visited sites, like a cryptominer script. use ublock origin, noscript extensions to see differences in firefox behavior too.. maybe even run firefox with firejail, or try a new profile... --- i also use icecat occasionally, as it

[DNG] Firefox-esr freezes ASCII

2019-07-09 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
To pay my bills online I use Chromium as I have no other choice. Websites are becoming dictators as to which browser one uses. To do normal browsing, I am using Waterfox which is Firefox without the late many 'cool' additions. This experience is making me nostalgic of the times when I was using D

Re: [DNG] Firefox-esr freezes ASCII

2019-07-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 10:34:34 +0200 Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: > Please note, this post is not intended as a complaint against the > Devuan distribution. Firefox is not written by Devuan. My post should > be viewed as an advice to anyone still using firefox who would not > like to get their OS

Re: [DNG] Firefox-esr freezes ASCII

2019-07-09 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 7/9/19 4:34 AM, Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: For the information of everyone: I would like to inform all those concerned that firefox-esr is causing ASCII to freeze. Getting access to a terminal is almost impossible. Yesterday, I had to power off the machine. I did not investigate why the is

[DNG] Firefox-esr freezes ASCII

2019-07-09 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
For the information of everyone: I would like to inform all those concerned that firefox-esr is causing ASCII to freeze. Getting access to a terminal is almost impossible. Yesterday, I had to power off the machine. I did not investigate why the issue is happening as the system became extremely unr