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morning all,

installed Easy Dunfell on HDD on an old Sony Vaio and restarted in Normal (remove lockdown).
But Firefox is (freezing and) not retaining installed extension, namely Bitwarden.
This makes me hesitant to install anything else, in case it is lost in the next freeze, reboot, shut-down.
Have looked at this:
https://bkhome.org/news/202008/save-ses ... n-ram.html
But not seeing any save button on my desktop.

What am I missing?

thanks,

nota

ps: sorry forgot to add details, as per:
viewtopic.php?t=218

What specific Puppy version?
Easy Dunfell 64

Computer specs or make and model?
CPU?
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2430M CPU @ 2.40GHz

Memory?
Total RAM: 7950 MB
Form Factor: SODIMM
Locator: SODIMM1
Type: DDR3

Graphics hardware?
NVIDIA Corporation GF119M [GeForce 410M]

Network hardware?
Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter
Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 06)
• Kernel Driver: r8169
Any info about the computer can always help.

How is Puppy installed?
Full

Installed on what drive?
HDD Hard drive

How is drive partitioned?
Single partition

The partition(s) are formatted what format?
Ext4

Puppy is installed on which partition?
Single partition

If a installer program was used to do the install. WHAT PROGRAM????
EasyDD - used Gpart to delete every partition, opened .gz image file in EasyDD and clicked go - did everything!

EasyDD was run from a USB? Presumably with EasyOs on it?
It should have created two partitions on the HD, a fat32 and an ext4

the save icon you are missing is normal for a normal boot. It appears for optional saves when running in ram. Normal boot saves automatically without user input.

Are any other changes getting saved, or is your problem just with firefox extensions?

notaninja wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 2:50 am

morning all,

installed Easy Dunfell on HDD on an old Sony Vaio and restarted in Normal (remove lockdown).
But Firefox is (freezing and) not retaining installed extension, namely Bitwarden.
This makes me hesitant to install anything else, in case it is lost in the next freeze, reboot, shut-down.
Have looked at this:
https://bkhome.org/news/202008/save-ses ... n-ram.html
But not seeing any save button on my desktop.

I only intended the copy session to ram and disable drives for when you boot off a usb stick.
In that mode, the internal drives are disabled.

williwaw wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 3:31 am

EasyDD was run from a USB? Presumably with EasyOs on it?
It should have created two partitions on the HD, a fat32 and an ext4

the save icon you are missing is normal for a normal boot. It appears for optional saves when running in ram. Normal boot saves automatically without user input.

Are any other changes getting saved, or is your problem just with firefox extensions?

Sorry for not responding sooner!
Understood, thank you.
I was getting mixed up with the save to USB option available when EasyOS loaded into RAM, as you explained.
Not sure what I did differently next time but in Normal unlocked mode (with access to drive), Firefox now saving extensions fine.
Might just be a case of reboot curing all, as in 99.99% of problems

BarryK wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 1:58 pm

notaninja wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 2:50 am

morning all,

installed Easy Dunfell on HDD on an old Sony Vaio and restarted in Normal (remove lockdown).
But Firefox is (freezing and) not retaining installed extension, namely Bitwarden.
This makes me hesitant to install anything else, in case it is lost in the next freeze, reboot, shut-down.
Have looked at this:
https://bkhome.org/news/202008/save-ses ... n-ram.html
But not seeing any save button on my desktop.

I only intended the copy session to ram and disable drives for when you boot off a usb stick.
In that mode, the internal drives are disabled.

Thanks Barry,

extensions saving in normal mode just fine.
No doubt just a user error or general incomprehension.