unexpected firefox "server not found" messages
Once in a while I've been getting "Server not found" errors from Firefox that surprise me. The links are to real sites. Other browsers can see the site. I thought that the problem might have to do with some tightened security rules. No, the problem is IPv6. I don't have IPv6 at home. But Fedora has it enabled normally. This generally doesn't cause problems. But now it has. Fix: <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/server-not-found-connection-problem?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Server+not+found#w_ipv6> type URL "about:firefox" Change the setting of network.dns.disableIPv6 to true. (Setting Fedora (glibc?) to not try IPv6 might make other things faster. I don't remember how to do this.)
On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 09:52:43 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Once in a while I've been getting "Server not found" errors from Firefox that surprise me. The links are to real sites. Other browsers can see the site. I thought that the problem might have to do with some tightened security rules. No, the problem is IPv6. I don't have IPv6 at home. But Fedora has it enabled normally. This generally doesn't cause problems. But now it has.
type URL "about:firefox"
firefox ver 50.0 about:firefox = The address isn’t valid not sure if I care enough to figure out why they removed that. I may just change to chrome I find that the common trend in software is over development. Developers simply cannot accept that a product has reached a level of maturity and functionality where the use is optimal in relation to the issues that additional functionality would presume. It is as if all huge and well funded software projects are trying to become everything to everyone instead of doing the best job of that which is supposedly its core focus. Another recently encountered example is wordpress. I think they all want to be everything. Which means that in 10 years firefox will be wordpress and wordpress will be firefox. ridiculous as one or the other will fail and fail dramatically and miserably. ac
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | type URL "about:firefox" OOPS: That should be "about:config" My excuse was that I didn't actually have time to check the post properly. I posted anyway since I thought that this mysterious incantation needed documentation.
On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 08:45:07 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | type URL "about:firefox" OOPS: That should be "about:config" My excuse was that I didn't actually have time to check the post properly. I posted anyway since I thought that this mysterious incantation needed documentation.
roflmao
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There's a meta-command: about:about It reveals some interesting settings and configuration items... - --Bob. On 2016-11-24 08:45 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
| type URL "about:firefox"
OOPS:
That should be "about:config"
My excuse was that I didn't actually have time to check the post properly. I posted anyway since I thought that this mysterious incantation needed documentation. --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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