What OS are is the computer hater on? On Thursday, March 13th, 2025 at 2:12 AM, Michael L <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. 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