"Microsoft was already nearing monopoly position in the PC market"

Really? I never operated a Microsoft OS until Win 95 was coming out. THEN MS started dominating, and I was more or less forced to investigate how and why MS-DOS was any better than TRS-DOS, or any other DOS. I investigated Windows 1 point something, up through Windows 3.11, then finally Windows 95. My PREFERRED OS was DR-DOS. And, if I'm going to load any DOS, it's still going to be DR-DOS.

Windows 95 and then 98 gave MS their market dominance. And, let us remember the dirty tricks played against DR-DOS - "Check for MS-DOS, if not present, refuse to install, echo to screen "You must upgrade to a real operating system to run MS Windows". Or, words to that effect, anyway.

To be correct it should be A:\ minor ;-)

The poster thinks that being knowledgeable about tech is knowing your memes and posting selfies of yourself regularly. I could ask my 20 year old millenial daughters how they think their phones/laptops work if you want an example of "clueless". Being a crack addict does not confer knowledge of plant alkaloids or even botany.

On the other hand people who aren't clueless about tech (and the disturbing direction it's headed in) will voluntarily use as little tech as possible...

You say that, but...

I'm currently toying with ROMs on an old Motorola Bionic, which serves as the central music player for the stereo in my garage.

I've waited minutes for ART to do its thing on a singular package, but I've never waited minutes for Dalvik to launch the same thing thing on a properly-working device using Dalvik.

They are therefore not the same process. You might think that they should be, and I might agree that I think that they should be, but they're simply not -- or at least, the ART compilation process always takes longer than the Dalvik JIT process.

(Also, you sound a lot like the folks responding to those who question memory management on Android: "It's taken care of automatically," they say. "You can't do anything to improve it," they further proclaim. But there's a dozen or so tweakable parameters, and nobody can tell me that they're perfect for my usage out-of-the-box than anyone can tell me that my "swappiness" parameter on a Linux box is sane, out-of-the-box, for what I'm doing with it. It may be a reasonable default, or it may not be. But toeing the line unquestionably on the published Truth Of The Matter, and Accepting that Truth for What Is is a foolhardy thing to be doing. It may also be the fact that this same Bionic had a long string of bad Dalvik VM parameters that lasted for months or years, resulting in general sluggishness and frustration, though the 12.x Lollipop-based line seems better for reasons I haven't yet bothered to investigate.)

The issue is not, AFAICT, that the pictures may have been used for a yearbook: I'll sign up for that being fair use any day of the week. (I mean, sheesh: Where's the fight there, on either side?)

The issue is that the principal threatened a student with a bogus raft full of bullshit (including "reporting to the IRS") over a display of some 4,000 pictures he'd taken of school activities using school equipment, and subsequently displayed on a non-school website.

Why? The police already keeps it (obviously) so your privacy is already lost. I'd rather have it be open to the public what exactly is being stored than kept secret forever. The other edge of the sword is that when police conveniently 'lose' their footage, it can now be proven otherwise, if it's kept secret, not so much.

It creates that directory in the Mozilla directory because it's from Mozilla. And, it is probably using the same profile that Firefox uses.

When running multiple versions of browsers that are related, you really need to create a separate profile for each of those browsers.

If you should installl Chrome, then install SRware Iron Browser, the same thing will happen - Iron will use your Chrome profile.

Did the number of "users" drop because of the switch in tactics by the police, or did it drop along with the overall drop in crime? And did prostitution really drop at all, or did it just migrate from the street corner to escort services, craigslist and twitter? Not as black and white as you think.

Yeah, I have. Not terribly recently, but - - - well, lemme check it right now.

guy# timedatectl
            Local time: Fri 2015-05-22 12:44:05 CDT
    Universal time: Fri 2015-05-22 17:44:05 UTC
                RTC time: Fri 2015-05-22 12:44:05
              Time zone: America/Chicago (CDT, -0500)
          NTP enabled: yes
NTP synchronized: yes
  RTC in local TZ: yes
            DST active: yes
  Last DST change: DST began at
                                    Sun 2015-03-08 01:59:59 CST
                                    Sun 2015-03-08 03:00:00 CDT
  Next DST change: DST ends (the clock jumps one hour backwards) at
                                    Sun 2015-11-01 01:59:59 CDT
                                    Sun 2015-11-01 01:00:00 CST

Warning: The RTC is configured to maintain time in the local time zone. This
                  mode is not fully supported and will create various problems with time
                  zone changes and daylight saving time adjustments. If at all possible, use
                  RTC in UTC by calling 'timedatectl set-local-rtc 0'.

LOL @ the phones and tablets with half gig of ram. The wife decided she wanted a tablet. She wanted no input from me, she was going to do this all on her own. When it finally arrived, she was enthralled with it for a week or so. Install a couple "apps" and her memory was gone, and she's caching to disk, waiting MINUTES for a page to load.

When she bought a desktop, she handled that very much the same way. She sent me several links, and asked me to pick the best. I sent back the "best" link, and bluntly told her that if she didn't get AT LEAST 8 GB of memory, she was wasting her time. Argue, fuss, complain that I'm just trying to spend her money, blah, blah, blah - until I reminded her how much money she wasted on her tablet.

So, yeah, I'm with you on the memory - I need to upgrade. A second or third generation dual core Opteron at 1.8 Ghz and 4 gig of ram is ancient history these days.

Uhhhhh - no, it doesn't work with "all firefox extensions". Many, yes, all, no.

https://www.palemoon.org/

Click the link, and read. Browse the forum. They are very upfront about the fact that they are NOT Firefox, haven't been for some time, and never will be again. I think that fits the definition of "fork".

That would make a great bumper sticker. Even better, a bumper sticker on a police car.

Did you create a new profile, or did you try to run IceCat over top of your Firefox browser profile? That IS one method to force a FF-like browser to crash.

"Who do you think is paying for the free stuff?"

End users. Customers. Consumers. The unwashed masses. The advertisers don't pay for anything - they skim money off of you and me, and half a billion other end users, then they imaginatively put some infinitesimal part of that money to use giving away "free stuff". TANSTAAFL