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Robert,

What is the problem with Firefox the first time it is used on a new installation?  When first starting up, if there is no internet connection, or you are behind a firewall it takes many minutes before the program displays anything on the screen. Once it is loaded & the proxy setting corrected things work as expected. It is a real pain having to wait for a few minutes for the program to time-out when it can't make a connection the first time it is started on a new machine or installation.

Is this due to the default home page being a web-page & the program tryoing to make a connection to the net, or is there some other reason for a connetion being attempted prior to the GUI being launched.
Making it the same start page as for Dillonwould be a good idea.
Likely so, and many websites at that, e.g., all the google ads.
Alas, I cannot change this. It is something that is not my domain.
This site owner has his reasons for such and I must respect that.
Im using wget along with a remote php script to output my external IP address

echo `wget http://domain.com/ip.php -O -`

it works on 446 but now in 4.4.10 get loading bars and error messages.

what changed?

<edit>looks like it worked with busybox, still cant work out whats wrong.</edit>

<edit2>fixed by adding -q switch for quiet.</edit2>
Quote (stunix*com @ Dec. 03 2008,07:36)
Im using wget along with a remote php script to output my external IP address

echo `wget http://domain.com/ip.php -O -`

it works on 446 but now in 4.4.10 get loading bars and error messages.

what changed?

<edit>looks like it worked with busybox, still cant work out whats wrong.</edit>

<edit2>fixed by adding -q switch for quiet.</edit2>

the echo part is redundant... it should just be fine with just the wget blah part.
very true.  it is part of a longer line for a no-ip log after update,

echo "Ext: `wget http://www.domain.com/ip.php -O -` date %m%h" %D%M%Y>> /opt/no-ip.log

or at least something like that.

its groovy now but wget seems to have changed from what I can see, in 4.4.6  wget -V  gave me an Busybox association, and 4.4.10 it seems to be a standalone wget.

ah well, at least it works now. Im finding 4.4.10 very polished and wanting for very little.  thou I wood look at updating rdesktop client and possibly including the rdesktop server plugin, unless I or someone make a .dsl out of them.
get rid of gphone and would aumix be smaller than wmix or dmix?
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