Firefox on Ubuntu ..?

[Michael L]

I use Firefox for all my web browsing, but our 82 year old computer hater recently encountered a couple of instances of it not performing well:

one issue was a recently posted video not showing up on youtube even after refreshing the browser- reboot worked.

The other recent issue was Comcast email not loading (reboot didn't work) it loaded fine on my Ubuntu Firefox.

I opened the Chromium browser on her machine and the email loaded and worked just fine; so I suggested she use Chromium going forward, at least for the time being.

I've seen past write ups of Firefox declining, etc.,  probably to the delight of Google and Microsoft.

I'm wondering if Debian might be better for our computer hater with less bells and whistles for less software conflicts.  I'll take any suggestions.

[Michael L]

I've resolved remotely pretty much every complaint our computer hater has in a couple minutes; it's almost always a combination of pediatrics and computing.

[Paul Boniol]

I'm not in web design anymore, but what I've read is Firefox has somehow shrunk to a tiny market share. The most used browsers are all based on Chrome (Chrome, Chromium, Edge, Brave, and I'm sure more), so that's what designers are primarily supporting and testing. More websites will have some issues working with Firefox. 

I'd generally recommend Brave, especially for the desktop. (Mobile still has some import/export issues, if that's important.)

Paul

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[Csaba Toth]

It's not Firefox declining but rather WebKit based browsers' monopoly taking over everything. Opera caved in for many years now and Firefox is the last bastion standing. It is neglected by the web developers and tools.

Just like very few distributions are standing still against the ugly bloated security blob what Systems represents.

I would still advise using Firefox, only use Chrome on those crap websites which are not standard enough.

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[Tilghman Lesher]

In a few cases, I've noticed that only Firefox works. For example,
Chrome has seemingly forgotten how to properly present Basic
credentials for things like CUPS administrative services. So if you
administer CUPS and regularly use the web interface, it's either
Firefox or nothing. (For the record, yes, I know that Basic
authentication transmits credentials in the clear if you use HTTP, but
CUPS requires that you upgrade the connection to HTTPS, if you want to
do anything that requires authentication.)

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[Michael L]

I'll have to read up on the CUPS admin thing.  Sounds like Chrome at its finest with vulnerabilities as expected (maybe I'm jumping to conclusions).  Our network engineer Greg Cooper describes Chrome as Google's spyware.

Thanks for the valuable tech info; unintentionally missed Tuesday's meetup.

For the time being, have computer hater using Firefox with Chromium as a 2nd option.

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[Blake McBride]

What OS are is the computer hater on?

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[Michael L]

was Kubuntu for 2 years, now on Kubuntu

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[Michael L]

After 19 years of complaining about computers / Microsoft, I got her Kubuntu after Win7 EOL (thankfully skipped Win10).  Went to Ubuntu for remote agent software that seemed to work better than it did on Kubuntu.