That wouldn't be a bad idea, actually.

He linked to the post in goodin's wall that shouldn't exist. If a server is on fire you don't need steps to reproduce to prove that something's wrong.

And because of the office politics stored procedures are good? Man... the DBA you describe is a developer. It's just that instead of using .net or java he's trapped in PL/SQL or T-SQL nightmare.

You'll be happy to know that google talk doesn't work on windows 8.1.

I also have no use for most of the metro apps, exception maybe to the weather app that gives me a quick overview on the live tile. What I did was remove them from start, fill the slots with desktop apps, and now it works like a fancier start menu. With search as you type now including settings I use it like I used to with the classic start menu, only had to disable the bing integration. The new start button is actually just occupying space as I was already getting used to the hot corner.

Yes.

You mean a popup whenever you need it?

You can also try the built in click to play feature:

1. Disable/remove flashblock
2. Type "about:config" in the address bar and press Enter
3. Say "yes, I know what I'm doing" if asks
4. Search for the setting named "plugins.click_to_play"
5. Set it to "true"

Note: not working 100% yet on version 16 IIRC.

With that user agent string you are uniquely identifiable everywhere you browse...

Yeah, it's like saying 1378x768 is the preferred laptop resolution.

But 'CETA' == 'ACTA'.

You can always use IE6. It's still getting securty fixes and it's as usable as ever.

It's a real problem but it doesn't affect everyone the same way. Many of the issues are related to extensions holding on to references in long gone tabs and Firefox 7 is the first version that will see results from the MemShrink project (you can read about the details in the wiki).

I've had Firefox break the userspace memory barrier (3gb on windows x64) and becoming slow many times before, mostly because of Firebug.

That's my point, actually, except for the part where you say the faster release cycle can not solve this problem. You see, it actually makes development slower (IMO), but everything that makes the cut from a nightly build to a aurora release will be released. You don't get to the point where you have tons of stale, crashy features that need to be finished "yesterday" and keep holding up the release date. Even traditionally unstable nightly can be used as a main browser now because big features are being developed in parallel synched branches (ux, ti, ...) that are only merged to the nightly if they are stable enough.

I'd love to know why FF6 doesn't work for you.

You still have FF3.6. What are you complaining about? You still have chrome, opera, IE6~9 as alternatives. Heck, you like stability so much why aren't you using debian? Their fully supported browser version is based on firefox 3.5, and I'm sure you'll prefer lenny's release because it's based on Firefox 3 and fully patched.

This anti-fanboy atitute is what makes me go into fanboy mode.

There is one for FF3.6. Firefox 3.6.23 will be released September 27th: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.6.23
This is being maintained due to user pressure, I think. But it is nonetheless.

There were more than a few firefox4 betas and in the meantime all new development nearly stopped. The road to even get to a first beta was full of dropped features, nightly versions that were unusable for a long time. And it took years to release......

Unless you need FF3.6 because of some internal website or some specific add-on there are no reasons (other than personal preference) to be using 3.6 instead of 6.