Is Firefox browser worth it?
 

I use the Firefox browser on both of my computers. I like that it syncs. Generally speaking it works fine. But every so often something doesn't work and invariably when I switch to the Chrome browser it does work.

Things like doing esignatures and certain videos not playing (like trying to animate the National Weather Service radar).

And lately Firefox has been opening new windows (instead of tabs) when I click on links.

I'm not a big fan of Google spying on me so I hesitate to use its Chrome browser, but if it works better than Firefox?

Just for info, I browsed to the US National Weather Service radar page using Firefox (47.0+linuxmint1+rosa / amd64) and the GIF appears to work fine. I can see no difference to what I see there than what I see using Chrome.

On the other point, do you have Edit->Preferences->General->Open new windows in a new tab instead checked?

Edit: I didn't realise that you'd also raised these problems in separate threads. I have now answered to both.

Thanks hydrurga. I wonder why you're not having issues and I am. Maybe because I'm using Xubuntu.

Use whatever works!
 

Man, You're like the Anti-Christ of Linux.

Does anything work over there?
Still on Ubuntu 16.xyz with busted Radeon?

Google will definitely spy on you. (see my signature)

That's why I use firefox + duckduckgo.

I do as well, for the same reason, but have to admit that for one search in two I have to resort to Google because DuckDuckGo just doesn't come up with the goods. But at least I'm putting up some sort of resistance... ;)

I suggest that you give Opera a try.

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Steve Stites

I've tried resorting to google when I can't find something important only to discover that boolean searches are more than effective enough with both.

http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/...-ubuntu-15-10/

This works on Debian stable too, though you have to get the browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash from backports repo.
For Debian:
https://wiki.debian.org/PepperFlashP...8_.22Jessie.22

Ha ha. Yes, that's me.

Yes, linuxquestions.org

I tried duckduckgo. I'll give it another look.

I'll check it out. Thanks.

Thanks erik. So if I'm running Xubuntu 16.04LTS I would use the Debian one (the second one)?

A lifeline in times of uncertainty.

I give you an A for Affort. ;)
You certainly are tenacious.

Was http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/03/u...x-driver-16-04 a factor at all in your recent
"adventure" into 16.04?

No, you'd use the first one.

I'm sorry I dont use any of the Ubuntu's, but I know they have a GUI software manager. Go in there and search for browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash.
Alternatively, you can search for that package by doing:

If it finds it as an available package in the repos you have, then install it. Restart firefox and then flash content should work on.