On Mon, 24 Apr 2023 07:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> dijo:
>I'm building and installing many packages on the ThinkPad T430. >Yesterday, after several hours the browser would not download a file >until I reloaded the web page. I've not seen this happen on any >browser or host. > >It's a bit annoying, not a critical issue, and I'm curious why it may >have started yesterday. The same issue is occurring today. I can't answer your question directly, but my recent experience may give you some ideas. I first started using the Brave browser a week or two ago, and yesterday I finally got it configured the way I want it. It took so long because: 1) Documentation is thin and out of date. My version (installed on Xubuntu 22.04 via snap) is Version 1.50.125 Chromium: 112.0.5615.165 (Official Build) (64-bit). But when I search for help on a particular problem almost every hit gives me solutions that are impossible because the folders/files/buttons don't exist in my Brave. Apparently every single upgrade, even tiny ones, requires completely rewriting the user interface, yet all the web sites with help instructions refer to something several versions back. 2) There are bugs galore, frequently things that change how things work. For example, I installed three extensions and they worked well. I added a four extension and it wouldn't finish downloading. I tried several others and they wouldn't finish downloading either. It took me six hours of searching everywhere until I finally, accidentally, discovered that the problem was that I wasn't logged in to my Google account. That solved the problem, but then several days later extensions wouldn't complete the download again. In the settings I discovered that I was no longer logged into Google. What a PITA. I never had to log in to Google to install things in Chromium, Firefox, or any other browser. I don't know whose idea that was, but it wasn't a very good one. And if you do have to be logged in to Google in order to install an extension, an error message stating that would have been nice. It took many hours to get all the tabs that I had in Chromium finally working in Brave, mostly because they required usernames and passwords which, of course, I had forgotten. And in the process I often needed to move a tab, but that was a nightmare. Dragging a tab almost always results in it falling out of the channel, and when that happens the tab becomes a new window and the tab cannot be dragged back to the window it was in. And even worse, as soon as the tab becomes a new window Brave opens a new empty window every second until you release the mouse button. Now you've got to close the many extra empty windows, and then you need to open a new empty tab in the original window, and copy and paste the URL from the one you were trying to move. Dragging tabs needs serious work, like scrap what's there and start over from scratch. In spite of the problems, I sort of like the Brave browser. I no longer need DuckDuckGo, and it seems a tiny bit faster than other browsers. Most importantly I feel more private, although whether that's really true, and if it is, how much more, are difficult for me to figure out. I've uninstalled Chromium, and I'm not planning on going back.
