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Comment Re:But not a binding precedent (Score 1) 463

the featured article states that the vehicle was stopped while the phone was in use....

From TFA:

Olin, a prominent entertainment attorney, was riding his bicycle in the 22400 block of Mulholland Highway when he was struck by L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Wood’s patrol car in the bicycle lane on the afternoon of Dec. 8....

Wood entered the bicycle lane as a result of inattention caused by typing into his (Mobile Digital Computer),”...

"Wood briefly took his eyes away from the road precisely when the narrow roadway curved slightly to the left without prior warning, causing him to inadvertently travel straight into the bike lane, immediately striking Olin,”"...

That hardly appears to be someone who was stopped. Perhaps you confuse the officer's personal cellphone usage with the usage of the police car's mobile computer?

Comment Re:Wait.... what? (Score 5, Informative) 254

...Why should FB care whether Ukraine or Russia is winning the media war?...

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but Russia and Ukraine are engaged in a little bit more than a media war.

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Last I checked, Russia was invading eastern Ukraine.

I suspect that may bode poorly for a FB office in Russia to properly handle Ukrainian Facebook business.

Comment Re:Turn tiles off... but for how long? (Score 1) 171

...It doesn't matter what they change, someone like you will treat it like it's the end of the world....

The marketshare numbers for Firefox disagree with you. Firefox is losing users.

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So you have a decision to make.

You can continue to blame those who say Mozilla has chosen the wrong path.

Or you can try to change the direction Mozilla has chosen with the goal of regaining the users that Firefox has lost.

Comment Re: Well... (Score 1) 171

Install Classic Theme Restorer if you miss your overly complicated UI ...

The recent version of Firefox did not remove the complications, it removed the ability to customize.

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If Mozilla wants to have a simple, dumbed-down interface for Firefox as the default, I am absolutely OK with that PROVIDED that Mozilla retains the ability in Firefox to customize the interface to the complexity level that I want.

That is the problem with Mozilla's current thinking. Mozilla has removed the ability to customize Firefox. The "Classic Theme Restorer" is a bug-fest. It's the equivalent of putting a pile of shit out in a fly farm.

if Mozilla strategically intends to have plug-ins or add-ons provide essential functionality of a browser, then Mozilla needs to implement a quality assurance certification program for those plug-ins and add-ons. The current "works for me" ratings systems fails miserably in this regard.

Comment Re:Well... (Score 3, Insightful) 171

...What, exactly, do you hate about it?...

For starters, I do not 'hate" software. It's not an emotional thing for me. I look at software as something that helps me do what I need and/or want to do.

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To that end, Firefox's Australis is a degradation of Firefox. It has significantly reduced my ability to customize the user interface of Firefox to suit my needs.

Mozilla's attempt to find a "one size fits all operating systems" approach to Firefox has resulted in a significant dumbing down of the user interface.

I do not want Firefox to look the same across all the OS's I use. I want Firefox to exploit each OS to the greatest extent while staying within the conventions of that OS. That's where Mozilla went astray....

Comment Re:Turn tiles off... but for how long? (Score 1) 171

While that may work now, I do not expect it to work in the long term. Look what happened to the download window. The first step was to require the user to visit about:config in order to get it back. Then even that workaround was disabled.

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Mozilla is in a war with its users, and the users are losing. Firefox's declining marketshare is evidence that the users are losing.

Comment Re:Well... (Score 2) 171

Mozilla is the only hope left in the browser market. The rest are controlled by mega corps...

I am more concerned about attitude towards users than who controls the browser.

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Mozilla,over the past year or so, has shown complete disdain for the desires of its users. And the result of that disdain is a declining marketshare.

How long will it be before Mozilla is little more than a Netscape-like footnote in the history of the web?

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