Tiny Core Linux upgrade

[MikeRocor]

I finally got around to upgrading to Tiny Core 16.1, almost a month after it came out. The upgrade itself was pretty much of a "ho-hum" but I decided to also update firefox to the latest (140 dot something) and ended up reverting back to 133.

There were two issues with firefox 140: One was a privacy setting that just wouldn't stick. I could select "Never remember history" but it would always revert back to "Use Custom settings". Possibly not a big deal, but the fact that it wouldn't hold the setting casts doubt on whether the settings are working in the first place. The other issue was that the browser hung after a very few minutes of browsing - neither memory nor CPU were heavily loaded, it just stopped responding.

So... one for two. The OS update went flawlessly, the browser update not so much.

 

[osprey]

I finally got around to upgrading to Tiny Core 16.1, almost a month after it came out. The upgrade itself was pretty much of a "ho-hum" but I decided to also update firefox to the latest (140 dot something) and ended up reverting back to 133.

There were two issues with firefox 140: One was a privacy setting that just wouldn't stick. I could select "Never remember history" but it would always revert back to "Use Custom settings". Possibly not a big deal, but the fact that it wouldn't hold the setting casts doubt on whether the settings are working in the first place. The other issue was that the browser hung after a very few minutes of browsing - neither memory nor CPU were heavily loaded, it just stopped responding.

So... one for two. The OS update went flawlessly, the browser update not so much.

On firefox, perhaps have a look at the configurations. Type: about:config, in the URL bar and you could alter the config: privacy.clearHistoryOnShutdown, from false to true. The default is false. There are a few other configs for controlling history that you could experiment with too if still not satisfied. Hope it works. Works here.

 

[MikeRocor]

Thanks @osprey
I did experiment with the setting in about:config a little bit but was still not able to get the settings in regular setting UI to display the correct settings. With the settings UI apparently broken, I have no confidence that that the settings themselves aren't broken.

For now, I'm sticking with the old version - the new one wasn't as necessary as I'd thought it was for what I was doing. I'm sure their will be a point release before too long with some bug fixes.