BarbaraHudson's Journal: I hate firefox updates that break stuff

Every time I tried to access a subdomain by clicking on a story (yro.slashdot.org, science.slashdot.org, etc), I would be logged out. Returning to the main page, I'm logged in again. Surprise, surprise, it doesn't happen in Chrome. So I guess that's it for me. Google has just managed to make me switch.

Resistance is futile

[fustakrakich]

Use Seamonkey.. It's a very comfortable trip back in time. It does all the right things.

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[BarbaraHudson]

Thanks, but if I wanted a trip down memory lane, I'd use links or lynx. No flash ads, no auto-play videos, no eye-bleeding backgrounds. Those were the days. :-)

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[fustakrakich]

All the old controls are there too, to turn whatever you want on and off. It hasn't been dumbed down like Firefox and Chrome. And it can go full screen if you like the look... It runs just as fast. The email client and cheapy web composer aren't the worst our there either, all in a package not that much bigger than Firefox anymore, which I really don't understand. Why did Firefox get so fat? What are they doing, putting all the extensions and add-ons into the core program, so we can 'maximize our interweb e

Not a problem for me.

[Z00L00K]

I haven't experienced that problem at all with Firefox.

Is this related to which user interface that is used? I use the classic slashdot interface since the new 'beta' is not very comfortable.

Or are there some additional plugins used in Firefox that causes this problem? Anti-virus software may also be involved.

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[BarbaraHudson]

I also use classic, and it doesn't seem to affect chrome. I'm not running very many extensions (AdBlock Plus, OpenH264 video codec, flash plugin). For a while last night, I was getting warnings that the SSL cert on the subdomains didn't match the issuer (from cloudfront.net) - and no, I didn't click to go there. Then that stopped, and that's when I started getting logged out on sub-domains, but still logged in on non-subdomains. Who knows?

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[plover]

I'm still running V28 of Firefox, and it's working fine. I won't upgrade because they changed sync, and I no longer trust its security.

Chrome sucks. It feeds Google everything that happens, and doesn't let you disable it, it encourages you to continue to send the data with an opt-out flag. WTF should I trust a flag, when none of that info is ever any business of theirs?

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[BarbaraHudson]

I would just say that their business depends on having a certain amount of credibility. If they didn't honor the opt-out flag, sooner or later that fact would leak out.

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[plover]

Some companies have already been caught ignoring the opt-out flag. It's also subject to change, or mistakes made through whatever errors, and virtually impossible to prove. Google's said their opt out is only to remove an identifying tag from your info, but they still include the info that you triggered in things like hit counts via googleanalytics.js; they also don't say that your data isn't correlated, just that it's not identified as being yours.

I dislike third party tracking because the data that corr

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[BarbaraHudson]

Let them game away. Anyone who thinks that they have any privacy on the internet ... well, I can't say anything good, so I won't say anything :-)

If they base their astroturfing on my profile, they're going to be fscked - seriously fscked.

moof

[Bill Dog]

I don't get it, if you're willing to use Chrome, you don't care about your privacy, yet you want to use SSL.

I HTTP browse Slashdot's D2 discussion system with FF ESR 31.3.0 for Windows these days, and the only problem I've been experiencing is being on an occasional page here where some resource was getting loaded every 5 seconds, like clockwork. And on my iDiot device the non-mobile version of this site doesn't come up at all anymore, just a continuous rapid reloading. There's so much third-party shit on