I can't fathom what his issue WOULD be with it since you can simply not turn that on. It is off by default. I use the feature though and I fucking love it. None of the 3rd party replacements were quite as good as the real thing.

Except that, again, you have to specifically opt into it. So you're not a user...good for you? No one is forced to use the service at all. I don't understand what the point of these comments are.

I'm not a user either, but I don't care that the feature EXISTS. I just don't use it. Why would anyone care about that thing if they have to turn it on to use it?

THIS! Dear god this. I cannot tell you how much it enrages me the way they treat Netflix. I am more than happy to watch TV/movies there and would be glad to pay $20 a month if it meant ALL the TV and movies I could watch.

The tracking I can understand, but a few ads? Do you feel as if you are entitled to browse their site without accepting a few ads? I mean if it's obnoxious, sure, but they aren't all obnoxious. The clear benefit to you is that the website owner can afford to keep the website running. :p

The only money I've ever wanted from my websites was enough money to pay for running them and a little extra to spend on improving them. I've never looked to make a profit. To that end, I usually just slap up a few Google text ads and call it a day because I don't want obnoxious shit all over my site. I also find the tracking stuff repellent.

Yeah, just like when they asked me if I wanted to install WGA, right?

Touche. This is a well reasoned argument and I can see your point of view. I still think it's not a huge deal to deal with those settings when need be and I'm sure you can find ways if you're clever to do it with Microsoft's tools.

My work does it and they never want to do shit with our computers (biiig company). I'm actually amazed that we have Firefox...I think they just deployed it with some .ini files that set things the way they want (proxy settings, disable updates, disable addons, etc). I guess we'll see how that works with the silent updates. :)

Back to Reddit with you! :p

Steam is working on that. Big Picture mode. Also a lot of games let you configure settings with a controller if they support a controller. It's just a matter of time, really.

I at least try not to be a complete asshole about that stuff. xD

Whoops...guess I missed that. Probably below my threshold or something. :p

You wrote so much and yet not a word of it dealt with any of the facts in the article. Who gives a shit who the writer is? We're dealing with facts here...not opinions...unless you have something that proves those numbers wrong?

I mean I'm not exactly Obama's number one fan, but your post has completely avoided addressing anything in the article itself.

If it worked for "everyone else" then there wouldn't still be people complaining would there? I don't have problems of the same magnitude the GP had, but Firefox has run like shit in comparison to Chrome for me for quite some time. I don't know what it is and I'm not going to sit here and agonize over a memory watching app or something to try to figure it out myself. You know why? I switched to Chrome. I try Firefox out every once in a while to see what's up. This version, actually, is the first one that hasn't run like shit for me. I'm actually pretty happy.

Maybe it's the addons. Maybe not. I tested out a completely add-on free Firefox on one of my computers and it ran like complete dogshit. Not to mention the fact that what is the point of the browser if I can't use Addons? And before the argument that "it's shitty addons" comes up, Chrome has addons too and they aren't screwing up my browser like the Firefox ones apparently do.

It doesn't really matter who is to blame because when it comes down to it, I can do the same things I do in Firefox in Chrome now and Chrome doesn't run like shit. That's pretty much all there is to it.

How precisely do they integrate non-Microsoft programs with Microsoft management tools? That's just laziness really. Someone doesn't want to have to do it because they can't do it all from one place. I mean I understand it, but that isn't really a proper excuse is it? You can't expect other companies make their programs integrate with Microsoft's management tools.

Maybe some companies do, I dunno. I don't even know what would be involved in that (fees, huge pain in the ass to integrate, require Microsoft's permission, etc etc). Hell maybe you can find a way to make it work with their tools if you used a little bit of ingenuity.

I know I'm being picky here, but it isn't RAM. It's flash storage. Or just storage. Or storage space. Anything BUT RAM in fact. RAM is the memory the computer uses to run apps and such. Flash storage is what the computer uses to store files. This drives me insane when I'm trying to judge specs on products and the people reporting it call everything the wrong name.