They used BIG Government for the subsidies and pay-outs. Then used little Government to lock out the competition. Just like Verizon has claimed to be a telecom when it suits their needs, and then claims "internet" isn't telecom when that suits their needs.

Oh, and FYI. I come from 15 years of Opera. I know what customizable is. As soon as they make it easier to incorporate a custom-button, they'll have smoked Opera 12 as far as that's concerned.

When multi-threading gets more stable, they'll have smoked Opera in every way imaginable.

And for the people that wont give up their legacy-shit-extensions, you can add back the Status-bar/Addon-bar and live in the past to ones hearts content.

It's actually more customizable, and easier to do so.
I'm pretty sure the primary reason for getting rid of the "Addon Bar" and such is to break legacy usage of shit extensions that aren't secure, haven't maintained development, and in many cases are no longer necessary. There are so many garbage extensions in the online addons repository, it's not even funny. Hundreds of addons that do one stupid thing, that USERSTYLES can do or that FF already does natively. Yet people still download and install them. Hilarious.

Then I guess she wont mind using a browser thats 10 years old either.

Chrome is quite possibly the least customizable browser available. Whereas FF is far and away the MOST customizable, perhaps even better than Opera 12 in that respect.

Even IE allows for some pretty major GUI surgery with BrowserHelpers, and extensions. I use Quero for IE, and hide the "native address-bar".

I'm helping. I use FF Nightly nearly exclusively plus IE11 when I can't tell if a problem is a site or FF. Nightly has made major progress since 32/33, which would freeze for nearly 10 mins on relaunch with hundreds/thousand+ tabs (even with don't load tabs until selected).
Now there's very little time at all before the interface becomes useable, even without enabling "Electrolysis". Although I keep trying to test multi-threaded, but it breaks LastPass, RequestPolicyContinued and probably some other things.

Mozilla should just make it easier to report bug reports. They already collect my telemetry data, I shouldn't have to go through yet another registration and run over to bugzilla.

The FF-whiners spread more disinformation than truth. Although at times it contains a grain of truth. Granted they sound similiar to some of us when Opera dropped Presto. At least FF held their ground and pushed through.

I've yet to see any MMO that has even half of the "features" of some of the best MUDs from the early/mid 90's. But they sure look purty,

Canada is not that sparse, and much like almost everywhere else in the world, the population is dense and situated on the borders ---- with a lot of empty space elsewhere.

That's not been my experience. I've called corporate for Safeway, Hilton, Toyota, and a handful of other companies in the last couple years. It might take 5-10 mins on hold to get a representative, but I always got one. And aside from Safeway just "noting" my complaint, in all the other cases we had our issue either completely resolved, or a significant credit applied.

One time at the airport, my checked luggage was inspected by "customs" aka Homeland Security, and I was almost denied entry into the states because I said checked the box "no" to the "dangerous weapons" question.

My checked luggage contained lighter fluid for my Zippo. And they took umbrage at the fact it was "too large" of a container of Zippo fluid, and that they considered it a "dangerous weapon". They were also skeptical of why I would bring it, and accused me of lying about the "dangerous weapons" checkbox.

I said, I buy that size cuz its cheap ~$10 for the 4xSize, instead of $5 for the smallest size. After something like 10+ mins of back and forth on that issue, she finally relented with the reccomendation that I never bring zippo fluid on vacation again, and buy it at my destination instead.

I'm pretty sure if the agent in question had had a slightly worse day, I would of wound up on a plane back home instead of being able to continue on my vacation.

Personally, I was flabbergasted at the whole incident, that a container of zippo fluid would be considered such, and that I would be detained over it. Almost missing my flight anyways due to the length of time I had to wait to be questioned.

Many people in positions of so-called-power just look for reasons to exercise their authority.

Even Steam is more open than Apple/iTunes. You can access nearly all Steam features from a normal browser. In fact with "Enhanced Steam" for Firefox, it's a better "experience" than browsing Steam via Steam.

I could hardly believe that I couldn't even browse the iTunes store without installing iTunes. Yeah I don't fucking think so. Just like the Windows 8 "store" --- not accessible from a browser that you know has bookmarks, and tabs and doesn't feel like a stupid-ass "app".

Try FireFox Nightly, 64bit, and go to about:config and enable (True) "browser.tabs.remote.autostart" which activates Electrolysis ::

The goal of the project is to run web content in a separate process from Firefox itself. The two major advantages of this model are security and performance. Security would improve because the content processes could be sandboxed (although sandboxing the content processes is a separate project from Electrolysis). Performance would improve because the browser UI would not be affected by poor performance of content code (be it layout or JavaScript). Also, content processes could be isolated from each other, which would have similar security and performance benefits.

Although the Gecko platform supports multiple processes, the Firefox frontend is not designed to use them. Work to make the frontend (including addons) support multiple processes was begun in early 2013. The project roadmap has more details.

It appears to be better than it was a month or so back. There was a significant lock-up when restoring a session with hundreds (to thousands) of tabs ---- 5-10 minutes for FF to finish parsing whatever the hell it is parsing, before it would be useable. Even with the Option/General: Tabs [x] Don't load tabs until selected.

LastPass is acting funky with the most recent Nightly, first time for that, imagine it will be fixed up in the next day or so.

It's the FireFox old-guard, much like with Opera the "old-guard" put up the most stink (myself included) when Opera switched to Blink.

The new firefox is much improved over old, and I believe it purposely got rid of things like the "status bar" and old "addon-bar" to get rid of the extension cruft of useless crap that isn't even needed anymore and all the addon's that are barely masked spyware that needs those "elements" to run.

Pretty much this. When I was originally in school decades ago. The curriculum was Pascal w/ the professors book, and Pascal for the Data "something" course. Then there was a Programming Languages class that covered, Lisp, Prolog, Modula,n Assembler, and C; thankfully the C book at least was Ritchies'.

I really don't think introductory computer science classes should be C++ nor Java. Pascal ( or a Modula-based language), Python or (hrm whats another P-language)... PHP? Burn with fire Burn with fire!

The language should be easy to teach the concepts. Honestly C could probably even be fine for at least the intro-courses. I know I didn't have any problem with C or Pascal --- having learned the basics with Basic :-)

I can definitely recall (vaguely at least) a handful of BAYER Aspirin ads, that would of aired in Canada over the last 30+ years.

I wonder if "Aspirin" is the one drug in Canada that's more expensive than the US...