Do you have 64 gigs of RAM? Because I compile my own Firefox, and that's what it takes -- Most users can not compile their own browser

Funny, I recently compiled on a machine with 2 gigs of RAM.

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Those who regulate their telephone sector strongly, and those who don't. The US is in the latter category, and the majority are going to suffer for it. All I can say is that I'm glad I'm not in the US. I feel for you guys.

What about Firefox OS? "Everything's a web app."

Never mind English, there are lots of paths to learning it in most countries. Not so the other way. How about a scheme for those of us who want to learn some other, relatively minor language, where it is difficult to even find basic texts outside its native country?

LiveMocha used to be good until Rosetta Stone bought them out and ruined it. :-(

Well that pretty much explains where I part company with Mozilla's philosophy. Frankly, I'm not accessing the web from a mobile device in the 3rd world, I'm developing from a desktop machine in the 1st world. Someone should develop for the 3rd world but let it be Google, not Mozilla. They should've focussed on maintaining a quality PC web browser with a comprehensive interface.

... I'm still using an old version of Thunderbird. I don't get my mailnews interface overhauled every 5 minutes and that's the way I likes it. Web apps are overrated.

Australis has been generally well-received as far as I know. A few loud people here and there though didn't like the change.

HAH! Classic Theme Restorer already has 150,000 users, and that's just the people who had the time and inclination to download it. Who's to say how many others dislike Australis but just put up with it? Others have switched to Seamonkey, Pale Moon, or even the real Google Chrome.

No, Mozilla definitely seem pretty picky about when they want to listen to negative community feedback. Sometimes they stubbornly ignore it.

I'm all for LGBT rights and such, but really to criticize a game just cuz it don't include your sexual orientation..? I dunno about that. What's next? Is the LGBT community going to demand air time in Disney cartoons next?

No... but they might start demanding that CEOs be fired for small private contributions to a campaign whose message is contrary to their opinion about how marriage should be redefined...

What's wrong with "screw Oracle, I'll use C#"? You've even got Mono to allow you to develop and run on Linux or whatever.

I know this seems like a rather basic question, but why did Mozilla decide to create B2G? I mean, "everything is a web app"? So fucking what, does that give every app some more intrinsic value because it has "web" in the title?

The way I see it, they've taken valuable resources away from supporting useful projects like a standalong mail client (Thunderbird) and internet suite (SeaMonkey) and pissed them away developing Yet Another Mobile OS. I'm probably going to go for an Android phone for my next phone. Why would I go with Firefox OS? It's less mature, and I see nothing about its fundamental nature that makes it better than Android.

More "open"? Look at who wrote most of it's specs - it's Mozilla and Google. At the end of the day, if Mozilla stop supporting it, you're screwed. Just like if Google stop supporting Android, you're screwed. Why B2G ever got off the drawing board is a mystery.

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Can someone explain this "no-poaching pact" thing to me? I'm a software developer in the UK, and it's not uncommon on employment contracts to have something where you have to agree not to work for a competitor (or even with any of your company's clients) for a year after you leave the company. Is this not usually allowed in the US?

If the URL is automatically highlighted that makes it even more easy to lose the content of your middle click paste buffer.

God, I hate the "double clipboard buffer" thing in Linux systems. That really *IS* something that could do with some UX improvement. And as for auto-copying anything that is selected, I have little sympathy for users that suffer because of that behaviour - it's braindead. Use ctrl-c or whatever. Copying is a separate command from selecting, and no interface should merge the two.

If the target audience of your browser is a half step or less from computer illiterate, you need to take steps to protect them from themselves.

So if the target audience of Chrome is people who are barely computer-literate, why do they bother embedding advanced developer tools in there?