[sf-lug] Browser-based phishing stuff

[aaronco36]

Re: An unpleasant experience

Michael Paoli <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu wrote:
> 
> About the only time I've typically not been able 
> to do that, has been when X - or video - totally wigs 
> out to such a degree that I can't even switch to 
> another virtual console ... ........

> Fortunately pretty dang rare these days I have X / video 
> wig out that badly on me ... probably been several years 
> or more since the last time I had something like that occur.


Actually, I've had fairly poor experiences where 
X / video *really did* "wig out that badly on me" on a 
surprisingly *regular* basis; with the Mozilla-compatible
Palemoon browser. As the Palemoon homepage [1] 
describes this browser
--- quoting ---
Pale Moon is an open source Goanna-based web browser 
forked off from Firefox/Mozilla code, focusing on 
efficiency and ease of use by carefully selecting features 
and optimizations, having a fully customizable user 
interface, with its own growing number of extensions 
and themes while still maintaining compatibility with 
many Firefox extensions as well.
-----------------

Back in the Spring of this year, I've had Palemoon 
"wig out" so badly while running videos that X 
completely locked up and I kept receiving "SIGSEGV, 
Segmentation fault" messages on the originating
console.
This/these bug(s) are the exact make-or-break ones 
described at the MoonchildProductions/Pale-Moon 
GitHub site [2] that has kept me away from Palemoon 
since then.  
And yes, I've certainly been aware of Palemoon's 
Known issues [3].

YMMV with X / video "wigging out" from Palemoon :/

-A

=== Refs ===
[1]http://linux.palemoon.org/
[2]https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/Pale-Moon/issues/418
[3]https://www.palemoon.org/knownissues.shtml
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