Comment Re:on-board intel? (Score 1) 403
Updates to the browser are provided in a
At least in Ubuntu you get Firefox updates automatically. Clearly easier than getting
Comment So, how do you install an application on "Linux" (Score 1, Insightful) 403
So please tell me, how does one generically "install" an application on "Linux"?
It's silly to complain about Linux not being supported when Linux itself doesn't support the basic concept. It will probably be up to the distribution vendors like Ubuntu to customize this for their own desktop environment.
Comment Re:Opera is pushing this... (Score 4, Informative) 144
They're proposing this because the other "solution" they announced obviously totally sucks (but they have no choice).
To pretend this is only Opera's problem is silly. It's an everybody-who-is-not-Webkit problem. Which is why Mozilla said they will do the same, and if Microsoft ever gets any mobile devices out, they'll have the same problem.
Comment Re:Here's another proposal: (Score 3, Insightful) 144
...and some vendors (mostly Apple, a little bit Google) have an interest in that not happening. So good luck waiting.
Comment Re:GPL is counterproductivenow (Score 5, Insightful) 369
Free software is here. We've won. The strict rules of the GPL aren't necessary because people are willing to create, use, and propagate free software without them.
Citation needed.
GPL3 focuses on anti-tivoization and patents. According to your reasoning, that's not needed because companies are voluntarily allowing their users to hack their devices, and they're not patenting software? You must live on another planet. Without an axe to wield like the GPL, free software is dead in 5 years. It's annoying so many people are just so incredibly naive, or corporate brainwashed, in this regard.
Comment Re:My reason (Score 1) 369
A sheep's way of saying "I don't like what you say".
Not really, your post was just incorrect bullshit. SFC doesn't start suing for software they don't own the licensing to, unless they are hired by the copyright holder.
If you don't care what your users do with your software, there's little point in using the GPL.
Comment Re:Alternative theory (Score 1) 369
Only as far as resources permit.
Comment Re:Rybka was made by plagiarizing a GPL program. (Score 5, Informative) 206
Slashdot even covered that; http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/06/29/1824253/worlds-best-chess-engine-outlawed-and-disqualified
Looks like the editors have a short memory.
Submission + - Wikimedia making good on moving domain names away from GoDaddy (wikimedia.org)
xandroid writes: Wikimedia is finally making good on its promise to stop doing business with GoDaddy; they are in the process of moving to MarkMonitor.
Submission + - Chrome hacked in 5 minutes, 60k USD prize claimed (twitter.com)
Skuto writes: After offering a total prize fund of up to 1M USD for a successful Chrome hack (http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/28/1833229/google-offers-1-million-for-chrome-exploits), it seems Google got what it wanted (or not!). No more than 5 minutes into the Pwn2Own cracking contest team Vupen exploited 2 Chrome bugs to demonstrate a total break of Google's browser. They will win at least 60k USD out of Google's prize fund, as well as taking a strong option on winning the overall Pwn2Own prize. It also illustrates that Chrome's much lauded sandboxing (http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/12/chrome-sandboxing-makes-it-the-most-secure-browser-vendor-study-claims.ars) is not a silver bullet for browser security.
Submission + - Internet Explorer losing enterprise traction (infoworld.com)
tsamsoniw writes: "Enterprise usage of Internet Explorer dropped by 10 percent over the past year, to just over 50 percent, with some organizations still clinging to IE6 despite the security risks, according to Zscaler's latest "State of the Web Report." The bigger threat, though, lies in the fact that more than a quarter of enterprise Web traffic flows through browser extension and plug-ins — some of which IT neglects to keep properly patched, thus making them juicy targets for hackers."
Comment Re:Use Firefox (Score 1) 118
That's why it's so unnecessarily hard to change the default search
Click search box. Select alternate one. Done. That was hard
Comment Gee, objective and factual article you have there. (Score 2) 118
I don't understand why the editors even post such crap. The comments are supposed to be stupid here, not the articles themselves!
Do Not Track was a feature *introduced in Firefox and promoted by Mozilla*. Every browser ended up implementing it, and last of all Chrome did so grudgingly, mostly because Google didn't want to be the only one not to have it. Whether it's effective or not I'll leave up to debate - I prefer to use Ghostery myself and not rely on sites to cooperate. Call me cynical.
The second paragraph of the article is entirely a troll: the "have-you-stopped-beating-your-wife type questions that has no good answer" turns out to *have* an answer, it just didn't fit the viewpoint of the poster, who doesn't want to acknowledge that.
Comment Re:Use Firefox (Score 1) 118
The original article seems to be totally ignorant of the fact that Do Not Track *was introduced by Mozilla*.
Google was *the last one* to add it, because they hate it, of course. So no, Mozilla doesn't give a shit what Google thinks.
Also, Chrome is *not* open-source. Chromium is.
Comment Re:XUL (Score 1) 278
Chrome/Berkelium doesn't allow you to make a fully usable GUI, let alone look native. It was never meant for GUI toolkit work.
XUL/Gecko do - it was a designed as a GUI toolkit from the beginning, and it's what powers Firefox and Thunderbird.
