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Stephen Isard <[log in to unmask]>
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Stephen Isard <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 23 Oct 2021 11:55:03 -0500
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On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 09:54:19 -0500, Mark Stodola <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>On 10/22/21 9:40 AM, Stephen Isard wrote:
>> For the past couple of days, I've been getting
>>
>> ------------------
>> /etc/cron.daily/0yum-daily.cron:
>>
>> Failed to check for updates with the following error message:
>> Failed to build transaction: google-chrome-stable-95.0.4638.54-1.x86_64
>> requires libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.18)(64bit)
>> ------------------
>>
>> Disabling the google-chrome repo makes the error message go away, of course,
>> and lets check-update proceed.  But is this the end of the road for chrome
>> updates on SL7, or is there some reasonably straightforward work-around?
>>
>> Stephen Isard
>
>For the record, I'm a Firefox user...  I honestly don't see why some 
>people are so tied up on chrome.
>There is a chromium package available that works fine and uses the same 
>rendering engine.
>You could also look into a snap or appimage packaging.
>Historically, google doesn't give a flip about supporting "old" anything.

I mostly use firefox, but there are sites where it doesn't display properly and chrome does.  (Maybe the converse is also true, but I wouldn't know because I only turn to chrome when firefox doesn't work.)  http://www.septa.org/schedules/rail/ is an example of a site that firefox messes up for me.

Stephen Isard

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