Software repository failure

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 13:51:57 -0500, Jim wrote:
>Seems Google changed it's name and that caused the problem. I do find
>it strange that no one else seems to have run into this.

IMO it's stranger that users nowadays are staying with a browser.

You can't trust any security and privacy feature, the way trackers are
handled and ads are suppressed or even replaced, let alone how they
ensure to prevent users from visiting phishing sites etc. is completely
non-transparent, unless users spend much time again and again to deal
with this domains on computer freak level. Even then it unlikely
becomes really transparent, it's just not completely non-transparent
anymore.

Only very seldom, if at all, there should be the need to go to
about:config, or to set up SOME_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE, or to care about
curry-flavor-whatsoeverAPI-flop plugins or different levels of HTML5
support, H.123 whatsoever, neither the need to care about the selected
sound server, chosen plugins to provide features or just a theme,
either a browser theme or even the desktop theme. At least after caring
about such pitfalls again and again, stable browser releases should
stay stable with almost all updates, but it's common practise that most
browsers at least temporarily become completely unusable or that
developers stay with some bad design that might cause that some
websites are for example able to make the browser unresponsive.

What I'm missing by most browsers nowadays is a good old history. If I
searched the history for hours for some pics, videos, audio files or
articles and I click the first of those links, then the cursor should
stay at the position of the successfully search, but what actually
happens by most browsers is, that this clicked link jumps to the top of
the history and the cursor does follow the jumping link, so that the
search is lost.

I'm using several browsers and dislike all of them. Actually, while
browser A might do one job correct, it might be needed to switch to
browser B, to get another job well done, while the user might stay at
just one website.