Hi Bill! Fire up konsole, start htop and kill anything firefoxish you see. Start another konsole, start firefox from within it so you get debug output. look at htop and observe what happens. Nik Anno domini 2022 Fri, 25 Feb 11:10:11 -0800 William Morder via tde-users scripsit: > > Now here's another puzzle. I don't know if it's related to my previous > question about unwanted visitors in top, but I decided that I ought to start > a new thread. > > I managed to get rid of those pesky unwelcome visitors, and imagined that I > was on the way to having a machine that actually does what I want. > > All of a sudden, most of my browsers will not launch at all. I even went on a > spree, and downloaded lots of different browsers, just to try them out (and > to see if I could get anything to connect to the Internet). Thus far I have > installed urf, surf-raw, netsurf, netsurf-gtk, midori, epiphany chromium, > icecat, links2, lynx, elinks, vivaldi-snapshot, seamonkey and palemoon. > Firefox is of course already installed by default. > > My regular browsers are icecat (to block everything that's unwanted) and > palemoon (for when I am blocked from sites such as archive.org, etc.). I also > use seamonkey for only one thing, which is a small blog that I don't really > maintain much any more, but still like to check in. And I generally use > vivaldi-snapshot for all my "business"-type stuff, where I must use a direct > connection. > > Until now, this system worked just fine, both on my desktop computer and > (since early December) on this laptop. Now, suddenly, only palemoon will load > at all, and I am blocked from archive.org. The only thing that I have changed > is to remove non-free and contrib from the lines in my sources.list, since > networking has worked fine without any non-free software. > > And by the way, this is not, strictly speaking, off-topic, because it probably > concerns tdenetworkmanager, or something like that. > > Everything else that I've tested, so far, works okay. I can connect to the > internet, I can send and receive emails, I can download stuff. When I check > top, these browsers don't even seem to load. It's not like they start loading > then crash; they don't even show up on top. > > I am about to try an upgrade. And if that doesn't work, to add non-free and > contrib to my sources ... but I would really rather not do that, since it > seems like it ought to work without them. > > Help, please! Any suggestions are welcome. Even snide comments and jokes would > be a relief. > > Bill > > > > ____________________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
