I just installed version 54 from the tarball here, as my distro hasn't released the update yet. I'm not seeing those multiple processes though. Even with multiple tabs open and doing stuff it's still just the single process:

$ ps -f $(pgrep firefox)
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY STAT TIME CMD
myuser 13561 13023 47 02:01 pts/3 00:01:41 ./firefox

I do see multiple threads with ps -Lf, but version 53 was already doing that...

Also, it seems that pulseaudio is now required to play audio. Fuck that shit, I don't need more lennartware on my system.

So as I said, you have to become a city dweller on your little city island. Fine if you want to live that way, but I don't. I like my freedom to move around and the freedom to live in a place where I enjoy living, thank you very much.

Seriously, the reality of it is this:

Imagine a map where my house is the center. I can draw a circle of approximately 75km radius around my house, and all the places inside the circle can be reached by me within more or less an hour, which I consider my maximum commute time. There are 8 major cities, and several smaller ones within that circle.

Now if I had to rely on other transportation methods than my car, that radius would suddenly narrow down to around 15km (the furthest I would want to go by bike everyday) and well inside that 75km radius, an array of blips of places that are reachable by public transport including just 2 major cities.

Another thing you haven't considered is: what about your social and family life? If you place your job at the center of your life and your answer is to pack up and leave to wherever that is, then chances are you wouldn't be able to see friends and family members very often anymore. In my personal case: my parents are getting a bit older, and I enjoy spending time with them while they're still around so I like to visit them once or twice a week. If I moved to where my job is, and had to rely only on public transport, that simply wouldn't be feasible anymore. Visiting them would become a "travelling event" that would require careful planning and forethought instead of "sure, be there in 30 minutes!". The same deal with spontaneously meeting friends or spontaneous trips to wherever. Right now it's 2 in the morning where I live. If I want, I can be having breakfast in Paris before the sun rises.

So now you have escalated the simple problem of "changing jobs" to "changing jobs and moving your entire life over to someplace else". What if you like where you live? What if housing is inferior or prohibitively more expensive near the new workplace? What if the new job is in an office park or industrial zone outside of town in an area where it's impractical not to own a car (with regards to access to shops etc.)?

You also have to factor in the cost of moving, and if you're a home owner, the cost of closing your mortgage early (yes, banks charge you for that), the hassle of selling your house first plus the stress of having to find a suitable new place in short order.

And all this, just because you can't bridge that 40 minute commute without a car.

What if you were looking for a job, and the job you'd like to apply for is located 40 minutes away by car, but 2 hours or more by public transport, if it is reachable that way at all? A very common occurrence by the way.

I'll tell you what happens: you won't apply for that job and limit yourself to your little city island inside the action radius public transport allows you, and someone who does own a car will get that job.

As for fully autonomous cars, they are just pie in the sky at this moment and I wouldn't be so sure that they will be cheaper to rent than it is to own a car.

Intentionally shackling themselves to a place.

> But In Europe, the average age of new car buyers is already over 50, has been climbing for years.

Yet the volume of car traffic also keeps climbing year after year, eclipsing all other modes of transportation.

I hardly know anyone in my direct environment who doesn't have a car. Those without cars are typically city dwellers with an island mentality. The city is their island where they live and work and they hardly ever leave it. A place that's 40 minutes outside of town by car, is considered "far away" by them and they find it hard to grasp the immediate freedom that a car affords you.

That may have been true in the 90s but it hasn't been the case for a looong time. The web runs the world these days and it's easy to get by without Windows and Office. There are plenty of alternatives. People just stick to Windows out of laziness and because it's what most other people have.

If Office and Windows were to disappear tomorrow, people would just standardize on something else and they would get by just as well.

Lies. I can play games while streaming youtube videos and playing mp3s all at the same time on my pulseaudio-free system.

Eh, LinuxQuestions.org is the de facto Slackware support forum, it just doesn't bear Slackware in the name. I mean, strictly speaking it's a multi-distro forum, but look at the number of posts in each subforum here.

It would be like asking bbs.archlinux.org or www.ubuntuforums.org what their favorite distro is.

> basically the internet providers are snooping on all your traffic

They may or may not, but that's not where copyright violation notices come from. Specialized companies working for the copyright industry monitor public torrent swarms, and simply register the ip addresses that connect to the swarm. Then they send out letters to the ISPs who own the ip addresses, with details of the infringement, and generally the ISP just coughs up your information.

> A system shouldn't allow 1000 login attempts to the same account per second.

Cracking passwords generally isn't done by attempting to login, but by hacking into the database, obtaining the password hashes and then running a password cracker on them offline (using a dictionary, rainbow tables and whatnot). Cracking passwords like 1-2-3-4 is almost trivial in this case. "Difficult" passwords are a lot harder to crack this way.

So if you use 1-2-3-4 as a password on several sites, and only one of those sites gets compromised by a hack, your password for all the other sites get exposed.

> If they want Potterix to work differently, they should put out a distro.

They have, it's called Red Hat Linux *ducks*

That is more a Windows problem than a Chrome problem.

Even so, if Windows decides to change focus to another window, it would be to something other than your browser window, so how Chrome handles the backspace in that scenario is irrelevant because it doesn't have the focus anymore.

It's only when you manually change the focus back to Chrome, that you should pay attention that your text box is focused before pressing backspace. If you don't do that, that's just a PEBKAC error in my book.

How about they leave me and everyone else out of it and don't go breaking people's workflow by changing around default keyboard shortcuts that have worked for decades.

I can't remember that ever happening to me.

That is an option I guess. Still means remembering yet another non-trivial thing to configure on a new chrome installation. (add-ons don't sync settings)