Chrome dumped support for Ubuntu 18.04 – but it'll be back Google Chrome 128, released on Wednesday, does not function without intervention on Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver," and Google initially had no plans to fix it. But following community complaints and The Register's inquiry about the situation, Google says there's been a change of plan. "We recognize we caught some in …
I have problems with Firefox and all of its forks stalling and hanging. It doesn't matter if it's Android or Ubuntu. A page will partially render then it stops for several seconds or forever.
The de-Googled Chromiums are better, but it seems that de-Googling is becoming too difficult of a task these days. Lots of good forks have died off.
and so their associations.
i don't trust regular companies with the kind of misunderstandings or mistakes that they've had over the years. i like rust. i am not thrilled with most of the humans associated with the project.everything has the kind of vibe that is a hard turn off as some C old heds boomer takes on rust smh
Based on your description it sounds like you're using the snap version of Firefox, which is sadly the default in new Ubuntu installations. But it's still possible to download Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) as a deb from Mozilla if you manually add the repo. Or you can go with Linux Mint Xfce which has a similar look and feel to Xubuntu, but is completely snap-free and continues to provide FF and Chromium as deb.
Its amazing just how much effort goes into making something that used to work not work. The usual reason for this is 'security' but more often than not when a security flaw is found its usually something trivial that can be fixed without changing the entire system. The rest of the time its just 'features' -- typically more intrusive adware support, more pieces to the tottering Jenga pile or crap that characterizes modern software. (Especially web software.....)
I've experienced several instances of sites that used to work not functioning correctly recently. The sites themselves don't seem to have changed but I'd guess that either some framework or another's been fiddled with or somebody's nimble -- sorry, 'agile' -- little fingers has thrown together some half-assed improvement without testing it. Again.
If I sound frustrated its because we've been using the same basic computing elements now for a couple of decades -- websites, printing, audio, video and so on -- and instead of a steady improvement in quality and robustness we've had a downward spiral of quality and usability where more and more power and bandwidth carries less net information. Its a marketing driven race to the bottom. Enough!**
(**You can tell someone's been trying to buy a printer recently....)
Obligatory article:
Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine
They really need to get round to updating the year in the title.
Haha, that's brilliant… I remember the days, long, long, ago now, when such an article would have said "HP". But, as I said, that was long, long, ago…
(Oh, just realised I'm reading a browser tab from a month ago, and no one will ever see this reply - oops!)
I have a suspicion that this foobar cropped up because the bloke (or blokess) in the corner who does the libraries forgot about Ubuntu 18.04 and the library versions needed rather than any nefarious master plan.
Or did the bloke in the corner get made redundant recently?
Never underestimate the stubborn nature of siloed corporations. The the person who decided that support should be removed probably didn't realise that version of Ubuntu was an LTS and the developer tasked with removing support for a certain library version probably didn't even know why they were doing it.
Yes, you have to compile with/against older GNU if you want to distribute binaries that everyone can run. The libraries are good at providing backwards compatibility, but they have symbols to prevent loading them in the opposite case.
At this time it's that, not deliberately choosing to "drop support" for older userspace.
Not sure that's entirely true, at least not anymore.
If this sort of thing had happened to Debian or Alma (or Arch, btw) or any of the linuxes which aren't putting as much effort into user-friendliness with a graphical desktop focus, then I'd agree.
Not that Ubuntu users can't be "tech savvy" (for whatever definition you care to ascribe), simply that Ubuntu seems to be trying to appeal to the non-"tech savvy" more than some other distributions. So there are likely plenty of folks using Ubuntu who apparently don't think twice about chrome perils.
And again, not that Alma and Debian et al don't also have chrome(ium) users too; merely that those folks are more likely to be professionals and/or greybeards than someone who just wanted to try a linux, and didn't even consider checking which other browsers might be available before clicking The Internet[tm] chrome desktop icon.
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