Booting Ubuntu on a UEFI computer

[Bret Busby]

On 20/02/2018, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> hi,
> Am Dienstag, den 20.02.2018, 17:51 +0800 schrieb Bret Busby:
>>
>> >
>> > https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
>> >
>> > and then use the installation link at the bottom left of the page?
>> >
>> In assuming that, by "the installation link", you mean the link with
>> the label "Read the installation instructions", I can go to the URL
>> that you have given, but, clicking on the link with the label "Read
>> the installation instructions", results, in both Konqueror and
>> Firefox, in a blank screen, but, with a strange thing (only) in
>> Firefox;
>
> do you use any browser addons that could block things like javascript
> execution or other web bits that are rather standard nowadays ?
>

javascript is disabled.

Apart from all of the other problems (including progressively
consuming all available RAM), javascript is apparently the medium used
by Meltdown and/or Spectre.

So, for safety and stability, javascript is disabled.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
 "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
 A Trilogy In Four Parts",
 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

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