[tde-users] Re: non-starting browsers - the whole sad history

On Sunday 27 February 2022 23:47:52 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: I do copy my whole home folder to another hard drive, but I don't copy it wholesale into the new partition for my home folder. I copy in folders or config files as I need them. I keep the backup of my home folder on a separate hard drive. Since 2006 I have done this, learning from my mistakes. I have gone through 3 desktop computers and 5 laptops (if memory serves), so I can usually trace my problems to their sources. There have been some bumps in the road, but I get my machines to run as I want. But this is a new thing. Besides which, this was already done back in December, when I got the laptop and installed Devuan. Back then it definitely had a few issues, but I gradually solved my problems. It was only after I upgraded that all this weirdness with browsers crashing, etc., started happening. The other things, like text editors acting strangely, and those visitors on top, they didn't seem too important. And it may be that those visitors were essential depencies, Gnome or not; but my point is, I never noticed them before. I check top several times throughout the day, because at a glance I can tell that things seem to be normal, or not. And I had never seen those things before, taking up all my CPU. That didn't seem right. In any case, those visitors went away. I haven't removed anything essential. But this problem with browsers remains. Today I did have palemoon crash once, when I tried to use ublock origin to block a banner on a site. I got a message that said "gtk2-tqt-engine (palemoon-gtk-tqt-application) crashed"; I do hope that this is not a sign that palemoon will also stop working. Well, I am pondering my next move. It will not do me any good to try to rush through this, just because I want to use my machine for other things besides serving the needs of the machine. Bill