A lot of people chose Chrome long before this. Back then, the time you were talking about, Firefox while a capable browser ran like absolute dogshit. It was slow to load, slow to render pages, and riddled with memory leaks. That button may have driven a nail into the coffins of the alternatives, but those coffins were built on the back of V8 - a blistering fast Javascript engine which showed the world that it wasn't their modems that were slow, but rather the browsers they were using. It was almost a decade before Firefox even got back into the same league (Firefox's Quantum project in 2017).

Many of us migrated to Chrome long before a nag button appeared on Google's home page.

So please go through Mozilla's financial reports and show us where they are underspending on development. Also show the costing of having an artistic team (which exists and represents a fixed cost, and is a necessary component of any company selling a product) is impacting development ability.

You don't seem to understand how costs or effort is allocated. If you wanted to discuss a development team focusing on item A in the bug tracker instead of item B, then you have a point, that is a zero sum game for fixed developers. But a completely different existing department doing something different has zero impact on development. They not creating a little mascot would result in not one second of extra development time on bug tracking.

What's the point of developing an app if you users don't know about it? Marketing teams exist for a reason.

And have the marketing team do what? Wait ... are you suggesting we should get an expert in Adobe Illustrator to start ... doing ... bug fixes? That would be a disaster.

Fun fact it was created by a marketing person at Mozilla, not by a developer, and not by the community. But they did offer guidelines on how to draw them. Maybe you should pull your weight and start drawing wallpapers of Kit? Seeing how you're so desperate for this community involvement.

And they all have the same ability. Just open up the Windows Volume Mixer to redirect an application to a different output device.

Actually they don't all have this same ability. The "creator's" and "artistic's" OS, the audio engineer's OS of choice, the dominant OS in the music industry in the 90s, ... Mac OS doesn't support this feature. You need a 3rd party app for that.

The person who can't get their parcel doesn't care how many ton-miles an aircraft does. If we follow your logic and assume the mileage on other air frames is higher, and you use a different airframe to replace what the MD-11 was doing then not only is 9% not a "pittance" it would actually be a far bigger impact in capacity loss for UPS than just 9%.

I had to look this up to double check but it would seem that we are currently discussing UPS flight 2976 out of Kentucky in 2025, so yes it very much is off topic.

Yes because we all know in a growing world with growing interdependency on trade the most viable step forward is to start by cutting 90% of logistic capacity in new manufacturing?

This. Firefox's commit graph on Github has been perfectly stable at over 1000 commits a week for the past year. At no point in the graph can you see where this mascot was developed. It turns out when you have more than one person you can do more than one thing at a time. For some reason this seems to be a shock repeatedly to some Slashdot users.

TIL Mozilla had a team translating KB articles to Japanese. TIalsoL that Mozilla had KB articles. I honestly thought it was just an automated bot that replied "WONTFIX" to every question.

And what "tech" do you suggest they do? They've been averaging over 1000 commits per week to their code based for the entire year now. You can't pick on the development graph where they have done this "instead" of anything. In fact the Firefox codebase is so actively worked on several of Github's insight tools don't work on it throwing an error saying there are too many changes to analyse.

So please do tell us what the fuck you're talking about.

But why does it matter? The problem with moving forward in HTML standards is that you need a goal to move towards. The modern browser can do fucking anything. It can emulate entire operating systems. https://www.pcjs.org/blog/2015... What more do you need? Connection to remote operated sex toys for your porn collection? Oh wait we already made that possible too https://developer.chrome.com/d...

The "we didn't use CGI, this was all practical" advertising campaigns. While I hope it is less bullshit than the no-CGI movement, it is worth noting that NO ONE CARES.

Absolutely. The instantly seeing something is a key. That said resolution is quite irrelevant. In most cases the limiting factor is the lens and nailing the focus. Sure if you're a photographer creating 3m wide masterpieces then resolution becomes key (then you're probably also comparing against large format but let's not get into that discussion), but for 99.999% of photos out there it's wasted data.

That's actually not true. It would absolutely be worth complaining about an exterior building door locking someone in. Theft risk or not there needs to be doors that are openable from the inside without a key. That definitely IS part of fire safety codes.

But this barrier isn't doing shit. It's not just the OP. A good half the people here read the word "trapped" and got triggered without even remotely looking into TFA to see a picture of ... world's lamest trap.

Absolutely not. In fact before you even get to flying larger aircraft you're certified to fly smaller ones without even considering that multiple different certifications are done in parallel since pilots do not always fly just one aircraft. It's not many, but it's usually more than one.

Bunker fuel isn't a fuel. It's a name for a different set of fuels that ships use. Among those is Heavy Fuel Oil (which is effectively banned now), Marine Fuel Oil (what you are talking about, a low sulphur and slightly lighter variant of HFO), and ... Marine Diesel Oil (actual diesel which all container ships need to run on when they get close to port because you haven't been allowed to burn HFO or MFO anywhere near populated areas for a long time now.

And while it certainly used to be sludge that is left over, these days there are increasingly tighter restrictions on what MFO can contain, and it is very much starting to look more and more like diesel in composition (the last decade or so many refineries have focused on equipment upgrades precisely because they would no longer be able to sell their sludge to the shipping industry).

It's not incorrect to call these ships diesel powered. In fact for some of their journey the only difference between what they put in their engines and what you put in yours is the colour (colour denoting that the fuel was exempt from local taxes and may only be used for marine purposes)