Re: Why is Firefox such a beast??
- From: Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 18:00:09 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:54:11 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
[....]
If you want to set up a new Firefox correctly and reasonably securely
(for certain values of correct and secure, of course), read my article
here:
http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/squid-privoxy/index.html
You can tweak the privoxy configuration to determine how it handles many
things (including referrers) and you won't have to have 6 million (or
three dozen) Firefox extensions loaded.
OK, I've never had the nerve to try tweaking privoxy, either. But
I went to your site, copied the sample squid config file, installed
squid, cd'd root to /etc/squid, moved squid.conf.default to a backup,
created a new one with "nano -w squid.conf.default," and copied your
version into it.
Then I got this :
[root@Hbsk2 squid]# cd
[root@Hbsk2 ~]# /usr/sbin/squid -z
FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname. Please set
'visible_hostname'
Squid Cache (Version 3.0.STABLE7): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.012 seconds = 0.007 user + 0.005 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 0
[root@Hbsk2 ~]#
I don't know what a qualified hostname is, fully or not.
Since these posts I've had a thread called "VDQ : machine names??"
I did two of the three things recommended by Phil Meyer, and was
warned about the third before doing it.
I now have
[root@Hbsk2 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=Hbsk2.localdomain
[root@Hbsk2 ~]#
and
[root@Hbsk2 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
# nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
HWADDR=00:1e:8c:a3:89:22
ONBOOT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=no
DHCP_HOSTNAME=Hbsk2.localdomain
TYPE=Ethernet
[.... etc....]
but I remain confused about /etc/hosts, and the same Phil Meyer
had also said
It looks like your 'hostname' was not in /etc/hosts, so don't change it.
:) Mostly folks with fixed IPs or servers mess with /etc/hosts and then
forget they did it. :)
So I have not touched /etc/hosts.
What need I do to make /usr/sbin/squid -z work?
Maybe I'm just outta my depth here. I have to say that config
file would take me years of effort just to read through.
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Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
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