On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Joel Gomberg wrote: >On 09/08/2009 01:24 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> It appears to have an undesirable side effect, firefox-bin is stuck at >> 99% cpu despite killing it and restarting it. Several times. I fixed a >> bite to eat and it had timed out with an advisory it was taking longer >> than expected and I could cancel, so I did. >> >> That brought FF back to life and I selected tools>BetterPrivacy to bring >> up its prefs and un-install it. That was about 15 minutes ago, but so >> far only the bare outline of that windows frame has been drawn >> >> This does not appear to be a usable utility. > >I had this same sad experience at first. It gets stuck looking for the >directory where the LSO's [flash cookies] are stored. Just set it manually > from the better privacy add-on options menu. It's >~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects I found that eventually, but it had FF locked up totally for about 20 minutes each time I selected a different directory tree, it seems to scan needlessly for each time a new directory is stepped into or out of, before iot is actually selected. So I was nominally 2 hours worth of screwing around in finding the right tree. I haven't removed it, and it appears to have settled down now. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> Future looks spotty. You will spill soup in late evening. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
