On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 9:32 PM, ac via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 09:52:43 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

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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"

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.

If it were only about functionality! I found firefox to bork regularly give my usage style. Now I am using Opera limiting myself to at most a couple or three pages and being diligent about limiting the number of tabs and it works OK. I use min for my normal working browser as I can have a much larger number of windows open, called tasks, and seem to be able to get away with having large numbers of tabs open (varying in number) per task - - - YMMV! I despise Chrome for its reporting to the alphabet company all my browsing!! Regards Dee