Comment Yet another slashdot advertisement... (Score 1) 255
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... i think the biggest bugbear is going to be Windows 8....
Agreed. Windows 8 is going to be a strategic problem for Microsoft going forward. The reputation of Windows 8 is so soiled presently, that I doubt it is going to be an easy sell, even on touch screens.
You need to take back the web from Firefox, because it has a toolbar button you don't like, and a third-party addon didn't work correctly?
Please reread my comment, it was not that I did not like the toolbar button. As I also mentioned in my comment, those issues were the last straw for me, i.e., the last of a series poor planning decisions that the Firefox developers have made. So I, like many other FireFox users, am going elsewhere.
...Mozilla's case hasn't been helped by a steady drain on its desktop user share, which in April slipped to 17% of all desktop browsers, down from 20% a year earlier....
I think this whole situation has been blown out of proportion....
Possibly. However, what is adding to the fire is string of stupid decisions made by the FireFox developers. Those stupid decisions are convincing users that FireFox may be going in the wrong direction. Hence the uproar.
They are losing market share and their actions will accelerate, not reverse, that trend, just as previous missteps have done.
Ah yes... previous missteps.
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The last straw, the item that chased me off FireFox was the developers' stupid decision to lock down the reload and stop buttons on the FireFox UI. Yes, I know there is a "Classic" add-on that attempts to restore the previous look and feel of the UI. But like many add-ons, the quality level of that add-on is much lower than that of FireFox. I ran into too many issues trying to get that add-on to work properly. During my attempts, various items in the UI would actually disappear, and I would have to restore the browser's profile directory and try again to configure the Classic add-on.
Yes, FireFox developers are chasing away their users.. Now I just need to figure out what to do with my "Take Back The Web" FireFox t-shirt. Ironically, it looks to be time to take back the web from FireFox.
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I've often said that you don't fix a software bug until you've fixed the process that allowed the bug to be created. The above quote is of a similar sentiment.
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This was destined to pass from the day it was first proposed. All the public commenting was merely window dressing to make it appear as if there were public involvement. The ISPs control the Internet (and apparently the FCC) in the United States, and this is their way of assuring they will continue to do so and profit handsomely in the process.
Though it seems that there are so many ways for a person to smuggle a MicroSD card into a secure area that an eReader is probably not a huge concern.
How much experience do you have in securing high-value military devices and how much knowledge dop you have about the reasons for securing such devices?
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None and none, you say? Gee, I would have never known that from your comment.
We need a new Firefox, someone "pure" again.
Indeed! Australis (FF29 in general) has very nearly pinched my last nerve with Firefox. What the fuck is going on at Mozilla? The last two versions have run like complete and utter shit on my systems, from freezing windows to outright random crashes. What happened to my lightweight and reliable browser? >
"When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical." -- Jon Carroll
