Actually I think the biggest issue I have with firefox is that it hangs for a few seconds now and then. I would suspect javascript garbage collection (probably caused by the multitude of addons I have to run to make it useful). Since it hangs completely - even ignores redraw events - it's kind of disturbing.

I was promised square tabs!

I got everything neat except the addons that doesn't like to be in the status bar (which I suspect is a problem with those addons) and that the menu bar is hidden under a grey firefox-and-arrow icon. There's probably something clever I should do there.

Too late now. And it's a serious bother to stop Ubuntu to automatically upgrade stuff. (I know it can be done, but come on, I'd have to read a man page or google about it and I rather spend that time getting the old look back if people say it's possible.)

Yet people do it all the time, specifically about creative jobs: Video editing, logo/layout design, software design, architecture, music.
"All you did was to draw some lines and add some letters."

R&D usually ends up being "that thing that just cost money", because of idiots/tools that thinks like that. Companies close it down, and get surprised when customers stops buying the same crappy non-developed products that they want to keep selling for 20 years.

You might want to try RequestPolicy as an alternative. It allows script, it just refuses to load anything from a third party site unless you specifically allow it. I like it. (But it's UI is daft.)

I see. But it does nothing other than adding the status bar back, and even that only put an X and the RequestPolicy flag on it.

I don't see the menu toolbar I had before the upgrade (28), and a heap ton of icons clog the URL/searchbar instead of the status bar now.

The tabs are still rounded, and I want the square ones back. The pinned "app" tabs icons are squished.

I don't get this. Who is using so few tabs that they fit on one horizontal bar?

I usually end up with about 40-50 tabs after some browsing. I need them vertical, and I like to have them to the left. My *android* has a firefox with 35 tabs right now.

Which browsers support vertical tabs without any addon? (Currently using "tree style tabs", fearing 29 will break it.)

Does it work with the new Firefox? My normal addons keep breaking every time i upgrade...

Do I get this wrong:

DevOps is a new term invented by people that don't really understand tech people to cover everything so they don't have to decide who does what and can bundle everyone with the same title and have them solve whatever tech problems might pop up?

I think that misconception is to make the people with only brawns feel better about themselves.

It's probably quite chocking for them now in this millennium, where geeks more and more rule the world. And turn out to both know computer science, how to start a car as well as disarming and locking someone in less than a second and both making and shooting a longbow. :)

Interestingly enough, my browser (firefox) doesn't let me access https://www.cloudflarechallenge.com/, complaining about the security certificate...?

Doesn't everyone try to pick up every skill that might be useful in a disaster situation, given the slightest opportunity?

I've helped built houses, I've done plumbing and electricity - I can build a generator, but I forgot how to build a radio - I've done basic car mechanics work. This is just from things I needed to do while helping out, or because I didn't have time or money (or could be bothered) to hire someone to do it for me. To me it seems like most people with a brain could pick up that quickly, maybe not be good at it at once, but still.

I'm training Aikido and medieval swordfighting. That might be useful, but I really hope not.

I can't lift heavy things, due to a disc that doesn't want to stay put. That is not so good.

My current profession is embedded programmer/software architect. That will be utterly useless, I think.

But, in the end, I think the most useful skill I might try to use is to get people together to help each other.

(For something interesting on the line of what you can do with very little at hand, I recommend the BBC/Open University series Rough Science, especially the first season.)

It's enormously less work to trust that the upstream and packet system know what needs to be packed and restarted than to keep track on all the patches yourself. How many sysadmins have the _time_ to do source code reviews on _everything_ that needs to go into a complex system? How easy is it to accidentally put in a patch with a deliberate security hole?

(But, apparently the openssl people don't do code reviews either. I'd consider this a good reason to use something else.)

I find this very interesting. I was looking for an easy way of setting up always-on microphones with speech synthesis for intelligent home use.
I didn't plan on using a Pi though, but a few of the always-on full blown linux pc I have around.

Aziz, light!