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Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close

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Quoting "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net>:

> On 11/07/2017 01:50 PM, Will Mengarini wrote:
>
>> * Stephen P Molnar <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> [17-11/07=Tu 07:20 -0500]:
>>
>>>> I am running Firefox ESR 52.4.0 (64 bit) on my [up-to-date
>>>> Stretch platform.  When] I attempt opening Intellicast,
>>>> either with Speeddial or tying the URL, Firefox crashes.
>>>>
>>>> This just started happening yesterday
>>>> and there are no warnings or errors.
>>
>> I'm not aware of any bank wise enough to offer an
>> HTML 1.0 interface that can be browsed by Lynx.

Not that they aren't wise enough, but their sites wouldn't be pretty  
enough.  Gotta have bling, y'know.

>>> I have the impression that website/browser capabilities are
>>> now far beyond being deterministic or even vaguely testable.

Complexity is a weapon.  (The KISS principle is a countermeasure.)

>> When the heavy hand of government is starting to look preferable
>> to market forces, we're in truly-late-stage capitalism.
>>
>> (1) I am not a crook.
>> (2) America does not torture.
>> (3) Don't be evil.
>>
> I appreciate the replies.
>
> I'm probably going to have to change browsers, although I like the  
> way the Firefox handles Speeddial.

Have you tried Seamonkey?  It's a variant that I switched to when  
Firefox release 29 changed its user interface in ways I didn't like.   
Does the job for me.

And I make sure to shut it down when I'm finished surfing the web.

-- 
charlie@buygenesis.com (Charlie Gibbs)

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Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-11-07 13:30 +0100
  Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-11-07 17:10 +0100
    Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com> - 2017-11-07 20:00 +0100
      Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-11-07 20:20 +0100
        Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-11-07 21:20 +0100
        Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close cgibbs@surfnaked.ca - 2017-11-08 01:30 +0100
        Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close cgibbs@surfnaked.ca - 2017-11-08 01:40 +0100
          Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-11-08 13:30 +0100
            Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com> - 2017-11-08 22:10 +0100
        Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-11-08 20:50 +0100
          Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2017-11-08 21:20 +0100
        Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2017-11-08 20:50 +0100
          Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2017-11-08 21:10 +0100
            Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2017-11-09 08:00 +0100
          Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close RRRoy BBBean <rrroybbbean@gmail.com> - 2017-11-08 23:40 +0100

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