Re: XING.de flickering, unusable (related to User Profile) 

[Rainer Bielefeld]

David E. Ross schrieb:
I know this will not help you 



Hi,

strange - after few weeks today in the morning the problem was gone. I 
won't complain about that .


CU

Rainer

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Re: Seeking replacement for Firefox... considering Seamonkey

[Richmond]

Bob wrote:

> 
> I am being forced to abandon Firefox, which I've been using for around 15 
> years now (and really liked, until the later iterations).  I work from home, 
> and absolutely CANNOT have software automatically install updates and force 
> me to shut down (without being able to access another website to alert 
> people).  I've tried all of the tricks I could find to prevent automatic 
> installation of updates, but nothing has worked, and I do NOT want to loose 
> my job because of the programmers refusing to listen to reason.

If you download firefox as a tar and put it in /usr/local, you can then
change the owner of that folder to something different from the user you
normally use with firefox. So for example set up a user called firefox
and then:

chown -R firefox:users /usr/local/firefox

This prevents firefox from updating itself when you are not logged in as
firefox.

You need to link the executable into /usr/local/bin

ln -s /usr/local/firefox/firefox /usr/local/bin/firefox

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Re: Seeking replacement for Firefox... considering Seamonkey

[WaltS48]

On 9/6/20 11:09 AM, Bob wrote:

On Saturday, September 5, 2020 at 7:54:17 AM UTC-4, Don Spam's Reckless Son 
wrote:

Bob wrote:

I've used Seamonkey in the past, and really liked the way I could work on my 'personal' 
website with the software. I stopped using it when it was declared "obsolete" a 
few years ago.

I am being forced to abandon Firefox, which I've been using for around 15 years 
now (and really liked, until the later iterations). I work from home, and 
absolutely CANNOT have software automatically install updates and force me to 
shut down (without being able to access another website to alert people). I've 
tried all of the tricks I could find to prevent automatic installation of 
updates, but nothing has worked, and I do NOT want to loose my job because of 
the programmers refusing to listen to reason.

(1): Can I LOCK OUT automatic installation of updates? I MUST be able to choose 
when updating happens.

(2): How up-to-date is Seamonkey kept? I already have strong security on my 
system, but need to avoid security holes.

(3) How easy is it now to migrate Bookmarks, passwords, and so on?

(4): "Bonus" question - is the composer still part of Seamonkey?

I use Ubuntu 18:04 LTS - switched to it around the time I abandoned Office and 
IE (for security and other valid reasons).

Thanks!

Bob


If all you want is to stop FF updating, look at
https://www.journeybytes.com/disable-firefox-quantum-updates/ .

I had the reverse problem in a previous job, I wanted to be able to
install FF updates (the automatic ones there had several deficiencies)
so I had to find out how they had disabled them and reverse it.
They had set something up in the Policies which I had to remove again.
Looking at my notes from back then,
- defaults\pref\local-settings.js contained a pointer (filename) to a
file mozilla.cfg
- this mozilla.cfg had a large number of really irritating settings.

Bottom line, do a search on: firefox local-settings.js mozilla.cfg
and you will see how to change defaults. This is normally used for
company-wide policies.

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None of that really works for me... I don't use Windows, and the Linux version 
is completely different.
I don't mind FF downloading the update, I just CANNOT have it install it until 
I"m ready - and FF has changed how to disable auto-install several times now, 
with each time being completely different.  If they changed again and I was at a 
critical point - I could lose my job - at least making for a VERY bad day.



Use a Linux distribution like Ubuntu that provides a Firefox version 
with no update setting in preferences at all.


When the Software Updater offers an update, just remove the check mark 
from the checkbox.


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Re: Seeking replacement for Firefox... considering Seamonkey

[Bob]

On Saturday, September 5, 2020 at 7:54:17 AM UTC-4, Don Spam's Reckless Son 
wrote:
> Bob wrote: 
> > I've used Seamonkey in the past, and really liked the way I could work on 
> > my 'personal' website with the software. I stopped using it when it was 
> > declared "obsolete" a few years ago. 
> > 
> > I am being forced to abandon Firefox, which I've been using for around 15 
> > years now (and really liked, until the later iterations). I work from home, 
> > and absolutely CANNOT have software automatically install updates and force 
> > me to shut down (without being able to access another website to alert 
> > people). I've tried all of the tricks I could find to prevent automatic 
> > installation of updates, but nothing has worked, and I do NOT want to loose 
> > my job because of the programmers refusing to listen to reason. 
> > 
> > (1): Can I LOCK OUT automatic installation of updates? I MUST be able to 
> > choose when updating happens. 
> > 
> > (2): How up-to-date is Seamonkey kept? I already have strong security on my 
> > system, but need to avoid security holes. 
> > 
> > (3) How easy is it now to migrate Bookmarks, passwords, and so on? 
> > 
> > (4): "Bonus" question - is the composer still part of Seamonkey? 
> > 
> > I use Ubuntu 18:04 LTS - switched to it around the time I abandoned Office 
> > and IE (for security and other valid reasons). 
> > 
> > Thanks! 
> > 
> > Bob 
> >
> If all you want is to stop FF updating, look at 
> https://www.journeybytes.com/disable-firefox-quantum-updates/ . 
> 
> I had the reverse problem in a previous job, I wanted to be able to 
> install FF updates (the automatic ones there had several deficiencies) 
> so I had to find out how they had disabled them and reverse it. 
> They had set something up in the Policies which I had to remove again. 
> Looking at my notes from back then, 
> - defaults\pref\local-settings.js contained a pointer (filename) to a 
> file mozilla.cfg 
> - this mozilla.cfg had a large number of really irritating settings. 
> 
> Bottom line, do a search on: firefox local-settings.js mozilla.cfg 
> and you will see how to change defaults. This is normally used for 
> company-wide policies. 
> 
> -- 
> spammo ergo sum, viruses courtesy of https://www.nsa.gov/malware/

None of that really works for me... I don't use Windows, and the Linux version 
is completely different.
I don't mind FF downloading the update, I just CANNOT have it install it until 
I"m ready - and FF has changed how to disable auto-install several times now, 
with each time being completely different.  If they changed again and I was at 
a critical point - I could lose my job - at least making for a VERY bad day.
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Re: XING.de flickering, unusable (related to User Profile) 

[David E. Ross]

On 9/6/2020 1:14 AM, Rainer Bielefeld wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as shown in , I can't use XING any longer 
> because a selection menu area u comes and goes and comes and goes ... 
> This flickering makes XING unusable for me, I can't login.
> 
> It's not a general bug, but something with my user Profile. "Safe Mode" 
> does not heal the problem. Disabling scripts does not help, too. Now I 
> will have to find out what in my user Profile causes the problem.
> 
> Any Ideas where (in which file?) I should start?
> 
> CU
> 
> Rainer
> 

I see something similar to that in Yahoo news.  It seems related to an
advertisement that has animation.

I know this will not help you because you want the images, but here is
what I do.  I set my images preference to none, disable AdBlock Plus,
clear all Yahoo cookies, and reload the page.  After the page starts
reloading, I enable AdBlock Plus and disable JavaScript, leaving all
images disabled.

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That Flag:


A TV ad in support of re-electing President Trump and
featuring Vice-President Pence is sponsored by America
First Policy.  In the 1930s, "America First" was the
name of a movement in the United States that supported
Hitler and the Nazis.
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XING.de flickering, unusable (related to User Profile) 

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Hi,

as shown in , I can't use XING any longer 
because a selection menu area u comes and goes and comes and goes ... 
This flickering makes XING unusable for me, I can't login.


It's not a general bug, but something with my user Profile. "Safe Mode" 
does not heal the problem. Disabling scripts does not help, too. Now I 
will have to find out what in my user Profile causes the problem.


Any Ideas where (in which file?) I should start?

CU

Rainer
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