On Wednesday 07 September 2016 16:43:40 Mark Allums wrote: > On 09/07/2016 03:01 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > > On 07/09/16 03:03 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > >> On 09/07/2016 01:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> Greetings all; > >>> > >>> Online business seems to have hit a roadblock. > >>> > >>> Is there anything I can change in the about:config that will allow > >>> the "next" button to work on the https paypal pages? > >>> > >>> I have even tried it a couple time after restarting in the safe > >>> mode, with all plugins disabled. Dead in water, not a single > >>> packet seems to be issued when, after entering the paypal address > >>> of the recipient, I click on the Next button adjacent to the > >>> right. > >>> > >>> FWIW, the old, hasn't ever been updated google chromium also > >>> behaves the same, when I can get it to login, which is about 10% > >>> of the time. After rebooting, it will not login at all. > >>> > >>> Cheers, Gene Heskett > >> > >> Firefox is definitely broken. I can't view YouTube videos or visit > >> many common web sites. I get a security warning. I blame a crypto > >> update for this, as well as a Firefox update. > >> > >> Mark Allums > > > > I think your problem is that Debian doesn't install a Flash viewer > > by default. This leads to sites that check for such things to report > > that your browser doesn't have one. Read > > http://www.pcworld.com/article/2993902/browsers/how-to-get-the-lates > >t-version-of-flash-on-firefox-for-linux-after-adobes-abandonment.html > > for how to get around this.
In case everybody missed it, adobe is back to supporting linux, and that notice included a link, but when I clicked on the link, it offered me the 4 year old flash. Since some movies do play, I declined. ISTR the notice was on /. a day or so back. > No, I have installed Flash, and I keep it up to date. My problem is > not YouTube, that was just an example. I get error messages telling > me that the web sites are not secure, coincidentally after updating > crypto packages and Firefox. I don't believe that YouTube is > insecure, hence the problem. Not sending money through PayPal could > be a crypto problem, too. > > Mark Allums Maybe this is related to libns3 that someone mention, but we have to get it from unstable? On wheezy, how? Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
