{"id":187,"date":"2021-10-28T22:09:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T19:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2021-10-28T22:12:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T19:12:20","slug":"how-i-made-firefox-much-faster-with-an-estonian-id-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/2021\/10\/how-i-made-firefox-much-faster-with-an-estonian-id-card\/","title":{"rendered":"How I made Firefox much faster with an Estonian ID card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I haven’t blogged in almost ten years, wow. This time I discovered something that I think deserves a blog post.
I have an Estonian e-Residency<\/a> because I speak Estonian and visit quite often (at least when there’s not a pandemic going on). My default Firefox profile is easily more than 10 years old. With the Estonian ID card inserted into a card reader, Firefox has always been very slow with that profile, pretty much unusable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a fresh Firefox profile everything has worked very well, there’s a bit of slowness that I can see when browsing with the ID card inserted compared to when the card is not in the reader, but it’s not significant. Today I wanted to register as a reader at the Tallinn Central Library<\/a>, because they offer Estonian e-books that I would like to read. Having to open a fresh Firefox profile to browse a library web site irritated me enough that I started looking for a solution. I found the solution by reading the CAC page of the Arch wiki<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went to Edit -><\/code> Settings -><\/code> Privacy & Security -><\/code> Security Devices. I saw that my old profile had both “OpenSC PKCS” and “OpenSC PKCS#11 Module” in there. The fresh profiles did not have the “OpenSC PKSC” entry. So I removed that one and now the browser works faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I typically use Finnish on the desktop, just because I believe everyone should be able to use free and open source software in their native language. I’ll attach a screenshot, which is in Finnish. The entry marked with a square is the one I had to remove. I’m using Firefox 93 on Fedora 35.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I haven’t blogged in almost ten years, wow. This time I discovered something that I think deserves a blog post.I have an Estonian e-Residency because I speak Estonian and visit quite often (at least when there’s not a pandemic going on). My default Firefox profile is easily more than 10 years old. With the Estonian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fedora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vpv.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}