On Tue, 9 Jun 2020, Dick Steffens wrote:
I have two. While there's no good reason why a web server shouldn't care with the OS is, it can. Comcast will let me log in from my virtual W7 machine using a windows version of Firefox, it won't let me do so from my Linux version of Firefox.
Dick, Not quite relevant. Several video conference hosts don't support firefox. And in my situation Chrome let me wander around the site but not join that meeting.
The other is Ghostery. I can't read a number of news sites with Ghostery active. Oddly, I can read most of the Oregonian site with Ghostery active on my laptop, but it won't open their editorial cartoons link. If I pause Ghostery, then I can open that link.
Interesting. I use ghostery here and have for years. A while ago oregonlive.com stopped displaying their weekly political cartoons summary in firefox and in other browsers. Now I use www.theweek.com/cartoons/ which is what oregonlive linked to. I can understand a newspaper's web site having different ads or trackers by page, but not a video conferencing host. Then again, this entire world of video conferencing and calls is new to me. I looked at the source code of the last page I could access and saw an explicit reference to ie=edge. This suggested to me that the site is hard-coded for the new Microsoft browser and that Chrome on linux hasn't yet adjusted to that. Shrug. Thanks for sharing, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
