this is clearly a joke....but if you actually want to see whats in store for firefox 'about 2 releases from now' just start using the firefox Nightly branch:

https://nightly.mozilla.org/

they recently implemented a new http cache http://www.janbambas.cz/new-fi...

they moved the preferences into the webpage area instead of in a popup window http://msujaws.wordpress.com/2...

in windows theyve implemented OMTC https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platf...

and they have been continuing work on their one thread/process per tab project.. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Elect...

Firefox is now, as of the earlier this month release, using the same GUI that Thunderbird has used since 2012.

Send your opinions and desires about the issue of net neutrality to the FCC now using the following link: https://www.fcc.gov/comments

attach your comments to the Proceeding # 14-28, which is at the top of the list, it is entitled "Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet"

Leave a few paragraphs, tell them what you want.

You might not get what you want, but at least you'll have given them a hint of public opinion. Be nice.

again the link is https://www.fcc.gov/comments proceeding #14-28 .. make it happen. it only takes a minute or two.. as long as it took you to comment here on slashdot.

they are asking for comments, give them some.

This is why I keep my full 1992 set of Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia handy. Just incase I need to look up Anthrax, or Bomb or Detonator.

I can do it safely, without anyone knowing.

Or, one could go to the public library and look at the stuff in the Reference section, one cannot even check those books out! ..Or, just go to the regular stacks and read the books on-site, bring tracing paper for the diagrams.. oh man, there is a whole world of information outside of the internet! and the NSA subpenas

when did being interested in user logs and usage info become "tracking" (which is, these days, almost universally considered bad)?

For those interested in the kind of stuff that people do.. here is the top 100 list of passswords from the 130million that Adobe lost last year: http://stricture-group.com/fil...

The thing that amuses me (or terrifies) is that nearly 2million of the people had "123456" as their password..

nearly another million had one of these: "123456789" "12345678" "1234567", and "1234567890" ...345,000~ chose "password" as their password (good going adobe.. why is that even allowed?)

i like the people who chose "photoshop" as their password. ..

going through that list you can just see peoples minds working. it is crazy to see what people do.

I lost my writin hand in the gas explosion you insensitive clod!

While it's not the best idea to keep all your eggs in one basket, Lastpass (a firefox, chrome, opera addon, plus a standalone app) is an OK way to store this kind of data.

It is all encrypted/decrypted locally .and then uploaded to the DREADED cloud! ...the lastpass folks never have access to your data.. so theres nothing to 'steal'..

While primarily a place to keep your passwords it does have a handy feature for what they call Secure Notes, with premade forms to filling out all of your personal private info, allowing pictures/scans to be added.

and... while that might be creepy for uploading to Facebook..... with lastpass they cannot decrypt the data, because they dont have your password and cant change it if you 'forgot' it..... because it was all encrypted before even being sent to them...including your password..

then you export a copy of the encrypted database, upload it all over the place in various email accounts, put it in safe deposit boxes on DVDs and flash drives..all stored with a copy of the standalone app that will show you the data, so even if the internet explodes too, youll be good to go!

For many people still using an RSS Reader on the web.. and whom loved Google Reader.. AOL Reader is the only reason to have an AOL email account. (with a simple greasemonkey script to hide the ad bar).. It is a well featured, well done product. And I will have to change my (strong, unique) password now, which is a slight bummer.

But this news brings up another issue. The main competitor in the RSS world now is Feedly, but with them deciding to forgo the risk/expense of an authentication system altogether and only allowing OAuth logins via Twitter/Facebook/Google/Microsoft ..with no login system of their own, many people are just uncomfortable giving the Feedly people access to their contacts list and other personal info that they get when using their service.. The info they get access to can be seen in screenshots here: http://imgur.com/a/jsXfT

Perhaps Feedly (and others) have a bright idea there, avoiding rolling their own auth and letting the inevitable data breach land on the hands of the likes of twitter and Microsoft instead of Feedly itself.. .. That certainly may have been a good idea for Adobe, who lost 1.2 million accounts.

Even 2% makes me a little worried about the product that is pretty great in AOL Reader.. and I am gonna probably fire up the locally run Tiny Tiny RSS reader this weekend to make sure I have a backup.

oh fer fucks sake, slashdot mangled that to all hell.

what year is this again?

as mentioned on torrentfreak, some shops use bittorrent for updating servers, for example, twitter and facebook:

source: http://torrentfreak.com/facebo... ....while they MAY be looking for p2p stuff for spreading video around... it is also possible job applicants would just be doing stuff behind the scenes, like theyve been doing elsewhere.

i think that a simple appraisal of most peoples opinions/fears/gripes of google+ shows that theyve never actually used it.

the circles thing was one of the big selling points going all the way back to 2011.. and probably covered here on /. ...now they allow you to create pseudonymous sub-accounts that cannot be tracked back to any real life identify ....and yet people are still crying from the rooftops 'OMG I CANT RISK PEOPLE KNOWING' ...well if you want yer head in the sand, ..theres that option too

I think google+ is pretty darn good as far as social networks go. It gets a lot of hate, but judging by what people say, a lot of that is from what it was in 2011, and concerns of anonymity. (The 'nag' screens feel like a different issue)

As for anonymity I am fine with not being anonymous to Google itself. I send email using Google Apps for Business account using my real name, they have my billing info and I don't mind sharing stuff I like to friends, family, and the public using my name on my public Google+ account. I did the on a personal website long before Google+ existed.

As for (pseudo)anonymity on Google+ I can choose how I share. I can choose whether or not to be BasementHacker20129 for my online profile using the "Pages" feature, sure, Google still knows that the name BasementHacker20129 that I used to reply a trollish comment about the Tea Party on youtube was sent by my Real Name.. but nobody else would. This seems reasonable to me, maybe not to others...

I happen to enjoy seeing Wil Wheaton posting about the stuff he is doing that week on my Google+ feed. I enjoy seeing the stuff Linus Torvalds posts on Google+. Those guys are pretty geeky. It is good enough for me, and them. It has no ads.

Sure, it wants to know your real name.. But I found, after poo-pooing it in 2011, that when I came back for a 2nd look in 2014 that it was actually pretty damned good.

one can create what is called a "Page" in google+ parlance.. and that page can be pseudonymous,.. you can be named anything you want under that page and use it on youtube, etc..

of course youll have to create it from a 'real name' google+ account, but unless you divulge it in public theres no way to know who it is behind the 'Page' account. .....your gmail contacts dont get notified if you like the latest pop video on youtube when using a google+ account...

on commenting for the *First Time* using an account on youtube which is tied to google+ the default option below the comment box is to 'make public' the comment, which sends it to your google+ feed, if you turn that option off it is sticky and will remain off in the future and that comment only lives within youtube.

while there are annoyances related to google+ ..most of the complaints just dont apply these days, it has changed quite a lot since it came out a few years ago... and for most of the complaints, there is a (mostly) reasonable solution.

the "i want to be totally anonymous" solution some people seem to look for doesnt really apply to the product.. pseudoanonymity is about as best as youll get

so youre suggesting that the maintainers of OpenSSL would have gladly allowed some new kids on the block come in and remove over 200,000 lines of stuff ? and that the new kids on the block are being lame for not trying to do so?

I think this move kind of strikes to the heart of the benefits of opensource projects. When someone decides they want to go in a different direction, they can. This direction is clearly (judging by the nearly 100,000 lines of code removed) different than the one the OpenSSL team is on..

The openbsd team supports over 20 platforms already. Deciding on on not supporting libressl on those 20 platforms before theyre even finished with the main bulk of the work seems pretty reasonable to me... and of course, it will be opensource.. you can go support other platforms if you want!

if you've got an axe to grind against Theo, and the openbsd team thats fine..... but at least you can be reasonable about this.. there is no evidence that the openbsd team has the same mentality as those in the openssl team had when it comes to making secure and correct code..

using funding to decide how/when theyll support other platforms doesnt relate in any way to the attitudes that caused the heartbleed bug... in fact, it might show that they wouldnt want to put a half-effort into something which they cannot use all of their resources on... which is a good thing.