On Sun 11 Sep 2016 at 15:28:03 (-0500), Mark Allums wrote: > >I was amazed a couple days ago, I switched my default browser to > >chromium, more for S&G than any other reason, as its now quite long in > >the tooth. I had to go thru an email driven procedure to verify the pw > >at PP, but then it worked. And its kept on working... > > > >And I've been using it for my daily dose of fake news from the mainsleaze > >news sites, and except for cbsnews.com, nearly every video plays AND > >stays in lip synch. > > > >I can now buy something online, and it works again. I think I'll leave it > >that way for a while. :-) > > > >Firefox is still busted. > > Agreed.
And yet there are few complaints here. Up to the time of writing, I've had no problem reaching the sites you mentioned, and no security warnings (except that I intentionally browse with an old flashplayer configured so that it doesn't start playing them but asks for confirmation instead). > I believed our problems were related, and I still do. I > have run into other problems since I installed libnss3 from sid, > problems that I haven't had time to relate here on debian-user up to > now. For instance, I couldn't verify my email with a certain site > using Firefox, the site simply said email not verified. (You know, > how they send you an email, and you click on a link.) I copied the > link address to Google Chrome, and it worked, first try. There are > a number of examples like this that I won't bother to enumerate, > because they are incidental. The problems surfaced with an update > to firefox, that's why I blame Firefox. I thought you just wrote "I have run into other problems since I installed libnss3 from sid" above and "I blame a crypto update for this" earlier. I couldn't follow your posts because I read a lot of statements of blame before I saw any evidence of what your problems were. > I think now that Gene's > problems won't all be cured by installing a recent libnss3. Some > people blame the age of Gene's system, Gene and I both run "wheezy" (though I run jessie too). He has many problems, often reported here, and some of the fixes he uses are very un-Debian to say the least. (I wrote "wheezy" because Gene's system is really only *based on* wheezy.) > but I am running stretch, and > I have run into the same problems (plural). You can blame my > problems on my running Testing, but it's funny that both of us on > two completely different systmes starting having trouble with the > same update to Firefox/Iceweasel. I've still only seen your assertions that they're the same problems?/symptoms?/messages? (Not even sure which of these applies.) Hoping things sort themselves out (often happens on testing)... Cheers, David.
