This morning, Debian told me there was an important security update, and wanted to upgrade me to the latest version of Firefox-ESR. Which, a browser being a rather large attack surface, I went ahead and installed.
A couple of the extensions I was using are no longer supported. And rendering for various sites is messed up, with (some) text coming out in 1980s Epson 9-wire printer quality. Various fixed-size text in the browser itself comes out tiny. Ugh.
Meanwhile, in the Windows 10 world, Joy's laptop received an official Microsoft update overnight, and apparently a bunch of stuff has changed, with new and complicated user-interface misfeatures cropping up where once was straightforwardness. Which is yet another good, if unanticipated, reason for locking my parents' PC at Windows 7: I was worried about the learning curve for the 7-to-10 transition, but it hadn't even occurred to me that subsequent "routine" updates would mess with the UI.
Update: Oh, it just gets better. Firefox has had Issues with printing to Postscript printers since it was Netscape, but usually the trouble manifests itself in the printer (or the Linux Postscript-to-printer translation filter) bombing with some full-page error message about a stack overflow, malformed operand, or some such. Now? Some pages display OK, but print as illegible spotty gibberish - it's like the document was rendered at the correct scale, but at 20 DPI or something, using a font not designed for such low pixel counts.
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