[GTALUG] unexpected firefox "server not found" messages

[David Collier-Brown]

On 23/11/16 10:32 PM, ac via talk wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 09:52:43 -0500 (EST)
> "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>> Once in a while I've been getting "Server not found" errors from
>> Firefox that surprise me.  The links are to real sites.  Other
>> browsers can see the site.
>> I thought that the problem might have to do with some tightened
>> security rules.  No, the problem is IPv6.
>> I don't have IPv6 at home.  But Fedora has it enabled normally.  This
>> generally doesn't cause problems.  But now it has.
>>
>> Fix:
>> <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/server-not-found-connection-problem?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Server+not+found#w_ipv6>
>>
>> type URL "about:firefox"
> firefox ver 50.0 about:firefox = The address isn’t valid
>
> not sure if I care enough to figure out why they removed that.
>
> I may just change to chrome
>
> I find that the common trend in software is over development.
>
> Developers simply cannot accept that a product has reached a level of
> maturity and functionality where the use is optimal in relation to the
> issues that additional functionality would presume.
>
> It is as if all huge and well funded software projects are trying to
> become everything to everyone instead of doing the best job of that
> which is supposedly its core focus.
>
> Another recently encountered example is wordpress. I think they all
> want to be everything.
>
> Which means that in 10 years firefox will be wordpress and wordpress
> will be firefox.
>
> ridiculous as one or the other will fail and fail dramatically and miserably.
>
> ac
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same disease struck MVS when it was new, and it became a trueism that no 
program was complete until it could send email (;-))

--dave


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