was Kubuntu for 2 years, now on Kubuntu On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 6:52 AM 'Blake McBride' via NLUG < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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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