The reason we interpret this as an advertisement is that Slashdot hasn't been doing videos or product reviews or video product reviews. Or maybe you have. But I haven't seen them and I've been here for fifteen years. There is no context for having established any sort of "we do slashdot videos now" and/or "we do video product reviews now". All we get is a giant spammy sounding blurb with what looks like a commercial that could have been produced directly to put on the front of the product's website.

I don't see how anyone could have not seen our skepticism and reactions coming a mile away when we were given no context for it.

I thought it was a joke, too. I had to read through the comments and make sure I wasn't missing something in the blurb or something somewhere that explained this was an early April Fools thing where Slashdot was having a go at us. I guess that, now that Taco is gone, they decided to roll out flat-out advertising. Full blown commercials and everything (even though I have the little "no ads" option selected on Slashdot's interface).

Slashdot has become less a part of my life in the last few years. Not because of other sites. Mostly because of itself. And because I don't need it much anymore. They're doing a really good job of convincing me that I don't need to be here at *all* anymore.

The question everyone is probably asking themselves is "what countries is this censored in?".

I don't think I have used a stamp since the 90s and I could get by just fine if the USPS just made a monthly visit to my house, instead of daily. All they do is bring me crap I have to pay to dispose of (and it all DOES go into the trash on my way back from the mail box).

Instead of a strong space program pushing our species into space to fulfill that hope-filled drive to explore, we're going to give you a stamp.

The reason extensions are irrelevant is that I can get the same type of functionality with Chrome's extensions, but sans the performance issues. Eventually, I could only make excuses for it for so long before I couldn't tolerate it.

As for Firefox's responsiveness - that is almost certainly a function of the browser. Perhaps I am a heavier user of it than most people, but it will inevitably grind to a halt the longer you run it. I don't use Firefox on Linux or Solaris, but I can speak to this being the way it behaves on OSX and Windows (XP, Vista, and 7) across multiple machines over multiple years, whether running on SSD or not. Chrome, on the other hand, has never behaved this way. No hitches, no hangups, no stalling, no "application is not responding" and no crashing. Firefox does this even when it is the only application operating. The longer it runs, the more memory it uses and the more likely it is to behave this way and only restarting the browser will resolve it.

And 3) memory management - whatever the excuse - continues to be shit all these years later, while the same browsing behavior on Chrome does not result in hanging and crashing.

It _is_ a problem on your average desktop. In fact, it's a problem on your high-end desktop.

I switched to Chrome, as of Firefox 9. I worked at Netscape in the 90s, so it was not a switch I made lightly, due to my Mozilla loyalty. The difference between the two (on multiple machines, across multiple versions, with multiple operating systems) is that on a system with 12gb of RAM and one to two dozen tabs (just averaging, here), Firefox grinds to a halt. It starts hanging/beach-balling. Eventually, it gets to the point where every action you take results in the OS saying the application isn't responding for ten to sixty seconds. Click a tab, hangs. Scroll. Hangs. Type in a text box. Hangs. Type in a new URL? Hangs. Click on a link? Hangs. Same type of surfing and extensions on Chrome? Never hangs. Never crashes.

All the "we don't have memory leaks" or "we have memory leaks, but *here is why*" or "well, it's because of evil extensions!" in the world is irrelevant, when _it_just_works_ for your competitor. Whatever the explanation or justification for Firefox's experienced problems, the counter is that _Chrome_works_.

I figure I gave Firefox enough time to get its shit together. It had problems in 3x (2x, too, probably - but that was so long ago I don't really even remember what my 2x experience was like). So I waited for 3.6. Then I waited for 4x. Then I waited for 5x. Then 6x. Then 7x. Then 8x. Then 9x. After like 8 major point releases over four years, I've stopped waiting and moved on.

It isn't a war on Osama. It's war (well, not actual war as we haven't had one since WWII) on terror. As soon as terror signs a peace treaty with us and surrenders, we'll get back to all that stupid freedom garbage. Any day now, surely. Pick an enemy that you can fight indefinitely and have all the time in the world to shape the country as you see fit under the threat of "terror".

Yeah, your super-mega-corp-ISP will never cave!