Re: FireFox broken, sends no data to paypal on payment screen.
On Wednesday 07 September 2016 16:43:40 Mark Allums wrote:
> On 09/07/2016 03:01 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> > On 07/09/16 03:03 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
> >> On 09/07/2016 01:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>> Greetings all;
> >>>
> >>> Online business seems to have hit a roadblock.
> >>>
> >>> Is there anything I can change in the about:config that will allow
> >>> the "next" button to work on the https paypal pages?
> >>>
> >>> I have even tried it a couple time after restarting in the safe
> >>> mode, with all plugins disabled. Dead in water, not a single
> >>> packet seems to be issued when, after entering the paypal address
> >>> of the recipient, I click on the Next button adjacent to the
> >>> right.
> >>>
> >>> FWIW, the old, hasn't ever been updated google chromium also
> >>> behaves the same, when I can get it to login, which is about 10%
> >>> of the time. After rebooting, it will not login at all.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >>
> >> Firefox is definitely broken. I can't view YouTube videos or visit
> >> many common web sites. I get a security warning. I blame a crypto
> >> update for this, as well as a Firefox update.
> >>
> >> Mark Allums
> >
> > I think your problem is that Debian doesn't install a Flash viewer
> > by default. This leads to sites that check for such things to report
> > that your browser doesn't have one. Read
> > http://www.pcworld.com/article/2993902/browsers/how-to-get-the-lates
> >t-version-of-flash-on-firefox-for-linux-after-adobes-abandonment.html
> > for how to get around this.
In case everybody missed it, adobe is back to supporting linux, and that
notice included a link, but when I clicked on the link, it offered me
the 4 year old flash. Since some movies do play, I declined. ISTR the
notice was on /. a day or so back.
> No, I have installed Flash, and I keep it up to date. My problem is
> not YouTube, that was just an example. I get error messages telling
> me that the web sites are not secure, coincidentally after updating
> crypto packages and Firefox. I don't believe that YouTube is
> insecure, hence the problem. Not sending money through PayPal could
> be a crypto problem, too.
>
> Mark Allums
Maybe this is related to libns3 that someone mention, but we have to get
it from unstable? On wheezy, how?
Thanks.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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