[TriLUG] expired ca-certificates in firefox

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Sun, 3 Oct 2021, Steve Litt via TriLUG wrote:

Hi Steve,

I'm leary of upgrading things like browsers. You wind up downloading the 
universe to update packages, then a bit later, you find something you 
depend on doesn't work anymore. As well I don't like that Firefox has 
removed the buttons at the top and bottom of the scroll bar on the right, 
which allows you to slowly scroll through a webpage. Also if you upgrade, 
the format of the files in ~/.mozilla changes and you can't revert, unless 
you're already prepared and have saved your originals.

I decided to test out Firefox and Chromium in a VM. That way I could just 
delete it if I didn't like it.

> Linux comes with many browsers. As a troubleshooting diagnostic test,
> see whether the symptom changes when you use Chromium instead of
> Firefox.

First time around Chromium was unusably slow. Firefox was slow, but 
usable. After about a day I realised I was sending my X packets back to 
$DISPLAY over wifi instead of the wired network. Now Firefox was 
acceptable, but Chromium was slow. The Firefox I was using (v68) didn't 
show any text for Slashdot and Soylentnews, only graphics, although other 
websites were OK.

I found that my current version of Firefox (with slow scrolling) actually 
can get to all the sites I want (after granting a security exception) on 
the VM. So for the moment being able to get to sites has been handled.

> As a long term solution, I suggest not using Firefox at all,
> because it's just too unreliable, and like you said, getting more
> unreliable every update.

I can move the VM to a faster machine and maybe Chromium will be 
acceptably fast there.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Joe

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