Re: non function firefox

2020-03-18 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, March 17, 2020 10:27:05 PM David Wright wrote: > But as far as FF is concerned, it's often very difficult to help Gene > because his systems are so distant from being Debian installations, > with real-time kernels, unusual desktops, and configurations that > have been hacked and nuked

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-18 Thread Curt
On 2020-03-18, Felix Miata wrote: > Fred composed on 2020-03-17 18:14 (UTC-0700): > >> In Gene's original post he said FF wasn't working with Walmart's search >> function.  Maybe Walmart's search function was temporarily down when >> Gene tried it.  Has it been tried again? > > I tried the same

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-18 Thread Vincent Lammens
Op 2020-03-18 om 3:27 schreef David Wright: > My advice would be to shrink a partition to free up some space, and > install a vanilla Debian installation onto it. After all, interacting > with the rest of the world (companies, shops, etc) through one's > computer has quickly become a part of Real

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread David Wright
On Tue 17 Mar 2020 at 13:37:29 (+), Larry Martell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 1:33 PM Stefan Monnier > wrote: > > > > Firefox is not working with wallmarts search function. > > > > Just one more reason to stay far away from Walmart. > > That is not very helpful to Gene. I agree.

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Felmon Davis
On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, Felix Miata wrote: Fred composed on 2020-03-17 18:14 (UTC-0700): In Gene's original post he said FF wasn't working with Walmart's search function.  Maybe Walmart's search function was temporarily down when Gene tried it.  Has it been tried again? I tried the same

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Felix Miata
Fred composed on 2020-03-17 18:14 (UTC-0700): > In Gene's original post he said FF wasn't working with Walmart's search > function.  Maybe Walmart's search function was temporarily down when > Gene tried it.  Has it been tried again? I tried the same walmart.com search for Kraft Sweet

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 March 2020 21:14:33 Fred wrote: > On 3/17/20 5:40 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > > Greg Wooledge composed on 2020-03-17 15:01 (UTC-0400): > >> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 02:51:37PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > >> So, you're using it too, presumably from the same source as Gene's? > >> Does

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Fred
On 3/17/20 5:40 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Greg Wooledge composed on 2020-03-17 15:01 (UTC-0400): On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 02:51:37PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: So, you're using it too, presumably from the same source as Gene's? Does firefox work for you? For some limited definition of 'work' it

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Felix Miata
Greg Wooledge composed on 2020-03-17 15:01 (UTC-0400): > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 02:51:37PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > So, you're using it too, presumably from the same source as Gene's? > Does firefox work for you? For some limited definition of 'work' it does. My primary browser SeaMonkey

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 March 2020 18:01:53 Phil Dobbin wrote: > On 17/03/2020 12:19, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Hi Gene > > > On Tuesday 17 March 2020 08:03:08 Marco Möller wrote: > >> > The -p option wiped out my history replacing it with links to fb > >> > etc, > >> > >> Are you sure that it didn't

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Klaus Singvogel
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 01:45:59PM +0100, Klaus Singvogel wrote: > > If you want to use your nPA (new identity card, Neuer Personalausweis) for > > authentication, it's a mess. Without deeper knowledge about smartcards, > > access with web apps, etc. I would say: no, no

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 17/03/2020 12:19, Gene Heskett wrote: Hi Gene > On Tuesday 17 March 2020 08:03:08 Marco Möller wrote: > >> > The -p option wiped out my history replacing it with links to fb >> > etc, >> >> Are you sure that it didn't simply create a new profile, and what you >> now see is this new, fresh,

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread deloptes
Greg Wooledge wrote: > Do you have any insight into why Gene is getting errors containing > /opt/trinity/ paths from Firefox/dconf? this is indeed a mistery to me as well There is nothing like /opt/trinity/share/dconf/profile/ in TDE because TDE does not use anything of gnome stuff. ls -al

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > Thats likely a fair assessment. But nobody on the tde list is > complaining. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett I use firefox as primary browser in TDE, however the esr version was causing problems. I unpack the downloaded tarball in /opt/custom and set a link in /usr/bin/. ATM it

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 March 2020 14:41:01 Johann Klammer wrote: > On 03/17/2020 05:10 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Firefox is not working with wallmarts search function. > > > > I am 85 and shouldn't be out shopping for common food and paper > > products. > > > > So what do I install, I suspect javascript

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 02:51:37PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2020-03-17 14:26 (UTC-0400): > > > Greg Wooledge wrote: > ... > >> If that doesn't work... then... what the hell is /opt/trinity, and why > >> (and how) did you tell Firefox to look there? Figure out what you

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Johann Klammer
On 03/17/2020 05:10 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Firefox is not working with wallmarts search function. > > I am 85 and shouldn't be out shopping for common food and paper products. > > So what do I install, I suspect javascript related, to make this stuff > work? > > install is I believe,

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Felix Miata
Gene Heskett composed on 2020-03-17 14:26 (UTC-0400): > Greg Wooledge wrote: ... >> If that doesn't work... then... what the hell is /opt/trinity, and why >> (and how) did you tell Firefox to look there? Figure out what you >> did, and undo it. > I've been running trinity desktop for several

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 March 2020 09:05:03 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 02:00:43PM +0100, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > > 17 mars 2020 à 13:47 de wool...@eeg.ccf.org: > > > If that doesn't work... then... what the hell is /opt/trinity, and > > > why (and how) did you tell Firefox to look

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 March 2020 08:47:35 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 06:02:19AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > ene@coyote:~$ firefox -p > > > > (/usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr:31477): dconf-WARNING **: Unable > > to open /opt/trinity/share/dconf/profile/user: Permission denied > >

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Larry Martell
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 1:33 PM Stefan Monnier wrote: > Firefox is not working with wallmarts search function. > > Just one more reason to stay far away from Walmart. That is not very helpful to Gene.

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Firefox is not working with wallmarts search function. Just one more reason to stay far away from Walmart. Stefan

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, 17 mars 2020 à 13:48 de to...@tuxteam.de: > A possible way to discriminate them might be to look at their > storage usage: > > tomas@trotzki:~$ du -s .mozilla/firefox/* | sort -n > So do the modification dates (maybe): ls -l 17 mars 2020 à 13:47 de wool...@eeg.ccf.org: > If that doesn't

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 02:00:43PM +0100, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > 17 mars 2020 à 13:47 de wool...@eeg.ccf.org: > > > If that doesn't work... then... what the hell is /opt/trinity, and why > > (and how) did you tell Firefox to look there? Figure out what you did, > > and undo it. > > >

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread tomas
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 01:45:59PM +0100, Klaus Singvogel wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > Works fine for me with Debian Buster default firefox. > > I think, whether it works or not, depends on your expectations. > > If you want to use your nPA (new identity card, Neuer

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread tomas
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 01:42:02PM +0100, Marco Möller wrote: > > >But it appears to have 20 or more all named by a hash generator. And for > >the most part, all identical to the newly generated one. > Sounds as if you already created many new profiles. > Use one of the newly created ones to do

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 06:02:19AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > ene@coyote:~$ firefox -p > (/usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr:31477): dconf-WARNING **: Unable to > open /opt/trinity/share/dconf/profile/user: Permission denied What Did You Do Clearly you've done *something* to cause Firefox

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Klaus Singvogel
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 11:27:47AM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > (*) The online tax portal (named "Elster" = magpie) is officially kept > > running on Ubuntu's default browser. For what ever reason their web > > programmers deem it necessary to reject older browsers. >

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Marco Möller
But it appears to have 20 or more all named by a hash generator. And for the most part, all identical to the newly generated one. Sounds as if you already created many new profiles. Use one of the newly created ones to do your desired shopping activity. Test all profiles to find out which is

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 March 2020 08:03:08 Marco Möller wrote: > > The -p option wiped out my history replacing it with links to fb > > etc, > > Are you sure that it didn't simply create a new profile, and what you > now see is this new, fresh, empty, profile? The new profile is > supposed to be empty,

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Marco Möller
> The -p option wiped out my history replacing it with links to fb etc, Are you sure that it didn't simply create a new profile, and what you now see is this new, fresh, empty, profile? The new profile is supposed to be empty, this is why you created it. Most likely the newly created

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread l0f4r0
Hi again, 17 mars 2020 à 11:43 de ghesk...@shentel.net: > The -p > option wiped out my history replacing it with links to fb etc, which for > security reasons I don't touch with a 30 foot pole. So I'll have to > spend a week restoring that just to regain my daily news sites tour. > If you

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 March 2020 07:42:41 l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi again, > > 17 mars 2020 à 11:43 de ghesk...@shentel.net: > > The -p > > option wiped out my history replacing it with links to fb etc, which > > for security reasons I don't touch with a 30 foot pole. So I'll > > have to spend a week

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread l0f4r0
Gene, 17 mars 2020 à 11:43 de ghesk...@shentel.net: > And I did find that I'll have to physically visit both of my local food > suppliers. Sigh. They have not instigated a store employee shopping > cart service so one can pay at the door with reduced exposure. > I understand. Bad news.

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 March 2020 06:17:52 john doe wrote: > On 3/17/2020 11:02 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 March 2020 05:47:00 john doe wrote: > >> On 3/17/2020 10:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> On Tuesday 17 March 2020 05:23:24 john doe wrote: > On 3/17/2020 10:17 AM, Gene Heskett

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread tomas
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 11:27:47AM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > since Gene's problem is a matter of real life, i mention that i solved > my problems with german tax declaration (*) by installing Ubuntu in a > virtual machine. > > Before installing some non-Debian, one could try whether

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Felix Miata
john doe composed on 2020-03-17 10:47 (UTC+0100): > The following command should get you started: > $ firefox -p Note to those who prefer configuration via text editors over GUIs, that profile management for Firefox and SeaMonkey is available without starting any Mozilla binary, and the

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, since Gene's problem is a matter of real life, i mention that i solved my problems with german tax declaration (*) by installing Ubuntu in a virtual machine. Before installing some non-Debian, one could try whether the browser of the newest Debian Live can do the trick.

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread john doe
On 3/17/2020 11:02 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 17 March 2020 05:47:00 john doe wrote: > >> On 3/17/2020 10:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Tuesday 17 March 2020 05:23:24 john doe wrote: On 3/17/2020 10:17 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 17 March 2020 02:50:47 David

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 March 2020 05:47:00 john doe wrote: > On 3/17/2020 10:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 March 2020 05:23:24 john doe wrote: > >> On 3/17/2020 10:17 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> On Tuesday 17 March 2020 02:50:47 David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-03-16 21:07, Gene

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread john doe
On 3/17/2020 10:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 17 March 2020 05:23:24 john doe wrote: > >> On 3/17/2020 10:17 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Tuesday 17 March 2020 02:50:47 David Christensen wrote: On 2020-03-16 21:07, Gene Heskett wrote: > Firefox is not working with wallmarts

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 March 2020 05:23:24 john doe wrote: > On 3/17/2020 10:17 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 March 2020 02:50:47 David Christensen wrote: > >> On 2020-03-16 21:07, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> Firefox is not working with wallmarts search function. > >>> > >>> I am 85 and

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread john doe
On 3/17/2020 10:17 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 17 March 2020 02:50:47 David Christensen wrote: > >> On 2020-03-16 21:07, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> Firefox is not working with wallmarts search function. >>> >>> I am 85 and shouldn't be out shopping for common food and paper >>> products. >>>

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 March 2020 02:50:47 David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-03-16 21:07, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Firefox is not working with wallmarts search function. > > > > I am 85 and shouldn't be out shopping for common food and paper > > products. > > > > So what do I install, I suspect javascript

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread l0f4r0
Hi Gene, 17 mars 2020 à 05:07 de ghesk...@shentel.net: > Firefox is not working with wallmarts search function. > > I am 85 and shouldn't be out shopping for common food and paper products. > > So what do I install, I suspect javascript related, to make this stuff > work? > > install is I

Re: non function firefox

2020-03-17 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-03-16 21:07, Gene Heskett wrote: Firefox is not working with wallmarts search function. I am 85 and shouldn't be out shopping for common food and paper products. So what do I install, I suspect javascript related, to make this stuff work? install is I believe, stretch. Thanks