2nd January 2017, 5:08
Since my previous post [which concerns FF on my Lappy] i have [almost] entirely finished a rebuild of my Tower to do a clean-reinstall of Maui [to blow away suspected remnants of Mint 17.3 KDE4 causing several weird ongoing Maui misbehaviours, due(?) to my not having previously formatted but instead only reused my separate Mint encrypted /home partition]. I took this opportunity now to completely change Tower's SSD's partition table similar to that done recently in Lappy, so it now has a 35 GB / partition [no longer with a separate /opt & /home, which i had in Mint]; this new "internal" /home was again encrypted during installation. Also like Lappy now, Tower's SSD's remaining space is [mostly] used by a separate /DATA partition, which post-installation i encrypted manually via eCryptFS.
As i said, Tower's new build is modelled after my recent Lappy rebuild. The big difference in subsequent experience concerns Firefox. As per all the earlier part of my thread, FF on Lappy simply will not work now. Conversely, FF in Tower works entirely correctly. So, this Lappy-FF problem just seems weirder upon weirder. As FF is the only thing which is not good on Lappy now, it seems entirely undesirable & unnecessary to have to take a nuclear option of doing yet another reinstallation of Maui on it. Practically-speaking, as earlier said, FF is not my default browser, so in purely pragmatic terms this problem barely affects me. However psychologically it does nonetheless distress me, simply coz "it's not right, & i like things to be right". Ha.
As i said, Tower's new build is modelled after my recent Lappy rebuild. The big difference in subsequent experience concerns Firefox. As per all the earlier part of my thread, FF on Lappy simply will not work now. Conversely, FF in Tower works entirely correctly. So, this Lappy-FF problem just seems weirder upon weirder. As FF is the only thing which is not good on Lappy now, it seems entirely undesirable & unnecessary to have to take a nuclear option of doing yet another reinstallation of Maui on it. Practically-speaking, as earlier said, FF is not my default browser, so in purely pragmatic terms this problem barely affects me. However psychologically it does nonetheless distress me, simply coz "it's not right, & i like things to be right". Ha.