The GPL(3) is functioning just as it was designed, to limit commercial use of code.
Nope, that wasn't why it was designed. You can learn about the GPL here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.html
No title bar, no status bar, bare minimum configuration, fancy useless UI animations => Chrome => safe to ignore.
"I only use browsers that attempt to clutter my screen to max capacity. I need persistent menu bars and status bars that take up space 24/7 even when they aren't presenting anything useful at the time. I don't want people to make smarter UIs to display the same amount of information in more organized and efficient ways, because I've never used a netbook or small-screen computer, so I don't understand why freeing up viewing area would be desirable."
Am I getting this right?
My main complaint? No status bar. Seriously? What braniac decided that this was a good idea.
Why exactly wouldn't it be a good idea to remove it? It was an almost-always-nearly-blank toolbar that mostly just took up space (like the classic menubar that was also axed this release for the same reason). The small amount of useful info it did occasionally show has been moved to various other parts of the UI. It might not be something you immediately appreciate on a 1900x1600 screen, but if you think of netbooks or other devices with small[er] screens, it makes plenty of sense.
Welcome to, what, 5 years ago? You've had so much time to learn what it is, how it works, and how to use it by now (and it isn't a particularly complicated feature...) - it's your own fault that you haven't. It's honestly time to get over it. The Awesomebar has been useful and working well since day one.
From what I've read, the Chinese people generally support their country's censorship
This is an amazingly hilarious line.
The one thing I'm not a big fan of is the new minimalist GUI.
That's what I like most out of this new release. They didn't copy Chrome for copying sake - they copied Chrome because it has a smart and unobtrusive UI. Now Firefox thankfully does as well. If you want the clunky toolbars and Fitts'-law-violating tabs-on-bottom back, you can change them in View -> Toolbars. I'm not sure if you can reenable the horrendous, obtrusive persistent status bar of old though.
...would pay $500 for a table?
The rest of the browser is so god-damned slow when compared to Chrome
Exactly. Using Firefox is a nightmare after being spoiled by Chrome's crazy good speed/snappiness/responsiveness.
These benchmarks are useless because they only measure javascript engine speed, not browser speed. Chrome will still get you to webpages and load them way, way faster than Firefox. It takes 3 seconds to install Chrome and realize this.
Con Kolivas is still actively working on BFS, it's not unsupported. He's even got a patch for 2.6.36, which was only released on the 20th.
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs/
He's also got a patchset out that I use on all my desktops which includes a bunch of tweaks for desktop use.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ck/patches/2.6/
No kidding. Talk about misinformation. An editor should really fix the summary.
kill yourself, fascist
It's funny how this is marked troll but what he's responding to isn't. Society is doomed. (Yes, I just determined that by the mod behavior on Slashdot.)
Came here to post this.
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I think everyone did.
Google is a company which makes its money through advertising, which it sells by making free services (this bit costs money) that people find useful and putting ads in them, in an unobtrusive way and generally useful way.
OP seems to have a problem with this business model, and the fact that Google is a business not a charity. This makes them a complete and utter retard.
I don't understand how paid commercial ads could ever be "useful" to those exposed to them. Thankfully there are things like Adblock Plus.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
