I'll have to read up on the CUPS admin thing. Sounds like Chrome at its finest with vulnerabilities as expected (maybe I'm jumping to conclusions). Our network engineer Greg Cooper describes Chrome as Google's spyware.
Thanks for the valuable tech info; unintentionally missed Tuesday's meetup. For the time being, have computer hater using Firefox with Chromium as a 2nd option. On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM Tilghman Lesher <[email protected]> wrote: > In a few cases, I've noticed that only Firefox works. For example, > Chrome has seemingly forgotten how to properly present Basic > credentials for things like CUPS administrative services. So if you > administer CUPS and regularly use the web interface, it's either > Firefox or nothing. (For the record, yes, I know that Basic > authentication transmits credentials in the clear if you use HTTP, but > CUPS requires that you upgrade the connection to HTTPS, if you want to > do anything that requires authentication.) > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM Csaba Toth <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > It's not Firefox declining but rather WebKit based browsers' monopoly > taking over everything. Opera caved in for many years now and Firefox is > the last bastion standing. It is neglected by the web developers and tools. > > > > Just like very few distributions are standing still against the ugly > bloated security blob what Systems represents. > > > > I would still advise using Firefox, only use Chrome on those crap > websites which are not standard enough. > > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 1:57 PM Michael L <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> I use Firefox for all my web browsing, but our 82 year old computer > hater recently encountered a couple of instances of it not performing well: > >> one issue was a recently posted video not showing up on youtube even > after refreshing the browser- reboot worked. > >> The other recent issue was Comcast email not loading (reboot didn't > work) it loaded fine on my Ubuntu Firefox. > >> > >> I opened the Chromium browser on her machine and the email loaded and > worked just fine; so I suggested she use Chromium going forward, at least > for the time being. > >> > >> I've seen past write ups of Firefox declining, etc., probably to the > delight of Google and Microsoft. > >> > >> I'm wondering if Debian might be better for our computer hater with > less bells and whistles for less software conflicts. I'll take any > suggestions. > >> > >> -- > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > >> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > >> > >> --- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > >> To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CALdmzXbZ2KREfwR2aTt1vhrhf3jwRDALZmVMk_9peJjESfW2Lw%40mail.gmail.com > . > > > > -- > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CA%2BKhHxJsv_PkOK%3D7agq1PmrrqOe%3DOGHdnOS0j1wki6i_D74VNw%40mail.gmail.com > . > > > > -- > Tilghman > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAHPkZcV%3DF%2BkGcYkoU-D_CSk3o-8y9fTEpoHMt8i6QHp0XHDkkQ%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CALdmzXYDKDiKznoEfhrzVHrp47UnG-g7vHM9uJt4TMUXVe5D_A%40mail.gmail.com.
