Another Linux lie: we have web browsers

Give person a new OS, and he will be irate for 1 day. Give him an upgrade, and he will be irate for the rest of his life.

Since the collective global Internet monopolist cabal systematically forcefully obsoletes our hardware and software, by expiring TLS certificates and ciphers, we are sometimes forced to upgrade, even though otherwise everything works, and we have no desire to spend our hard-earned $$ on new stuff. Likewise, I was forced to upgrade an OS on one of my devices. I access it remotely, over SSH that runs on top of a 50 Mbit uplink, which is the modern XOrg barely works on.

To deal with the painfully slow XOrg over SSH, I used to run Midori browser on that device, since it is one of the most light-weight and has the least animated UI (animations kill XOrg over SSH performance). Fast forward to the upgrade.

Once upgraded, Midori can no longer open any web sites. Yes, you read me right: it opens no web sites whatsoever. Instead, it offers this marvelous error message:

Midori can't find the page you're looking for.

Onto the console, it rains this: Error sending IPC message: Broken pipe

Imagine not being able to browse any web pages whatsoever. What does it make the piece of software? In my books, it makes it anything but a web browser.

So, another developer who loves to write code but hates to test turns their product into a proverbial pumpkin, overnight. Congratulations, you terminally genius ivory tower dwellers!

Posted by: LinuxLies at 04:28 PM | No Comments | Add Comment
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