Re: blocking crud. At home I have pi-hole, perhaps it isn't enough. I linked my specs for home above.

It's work where using Firefox is a bit more annoying and I don't have pihole there. At work, Chrome has no problem with 4 surveillance feeds, a few ajax-heavy marketplace backends (walmart, amazon, ebay), and (shhh) a window for Twitch. And these could be spread out across Windows virtual desktops, of which I have 3 (so 12 "screens") or just all on one set of 4. That same setup just isn't smooth on Firefox. Even without the 2 video sites mentioned, FireFox will be noticeably performing worse as Walmart auto-scrolls our product inventory (they have a poor design). Poor design aside, this just is never a problem with Chrome.

Idk, everything is a YMMV I'm just surprised I don't see as many fellow powerusers having the same issue. And as mentioned elsewhere, we can say it is "my hardware" but I've used FireFox on both my own hardware, friends hardware, wife's laptop, and many machines at work. And at work, we aren't just buying the same build from Dell or something. Every tower is built on-site.

"I think it's you, or your hardware."
That is why I mentioned it is on machines both at home and both at work. Everything is different, I am the only constant (which you did account for me lol).

At work I have 4 monitors pushed by an NVIDIA NVS 510. The CPU is an AMD Ryzen 5 3600. If I use my work youtube in chrome is it great, if I use firefox it will basically be stop animation if I happen to have our building video camera feed up.

At home, I only have 2 monitors with a GTX 3080 12 GB. The CPU is Ryzen 7. NVMe M.2 both home and at work.

It might be my hardware, but Chrome is snappy while FireFox just chokes on a variety of websites. idk.

Re: my comment on wishing FireFox stopped trying to copy everyone. Too many damn questions when you setup a new install of Firefox. Can't it just shut the fuck up and let me browse? I get that it is one-time, but my goodness get out of the way of yourself. Anyway, I share the same main complaint you have.

I'm surprised I've had such performance issues with Firefox over the last 5-7 years. I'm talking both at home or at the office, and on any machine that I sit at. Actually, what I am more surprised at is that everyone on Slashdot, whom I assume would be power users with at least two tabs open, generally report everything being smooth as butter. That hasn't been the case for me. I can load the same websites on Firefox and watch Firefox stutter along compared to Chrome. And unlike Chrome, if Firefox is limping along for a few seconds, it manages to hurt the operating system performance too, at least until about 1-2 years ago. Any rare Chrome issue seems to be perfectly isolated.

I wish FireFox focused on performance instead of Pocket or trying to copy Chrome, etc.
I suppose there is always pi-hole.

Not the person you replied to, but I can answer.
When I drove home from work last week, here in the US, I saw 2 kids outside at soccer practice wearing masks.
Northeast.

none of their stated use cases matter for me personally. I'm resistant to phishing because my password manager knows if I'm actually on Google or not. I don't keep the actual password in the password manager, so a password wallet being compromised is not a worry to me. Some of the sites with passwords I do keep are peppered, with only the non-peppered part in the wallet.
I'll give you keylogger, though if your system is compromised the damage is likely only just getting started, and shit will simply hit the fan after you login via passkey.

Or at least the one it had at launch/without 3rd party fixes/etc.


Outside of graphic design, and quickbooks, our company doesn't use specialized software. It's all in a web browser. Change prices on Walmart? Web browser. Email? Web browser. Spreadsheet? Web browser.

When you different tasks are simply different browser windows, the MacOS taskbar style becomes exponentially unhelpful. Even though we have multiple tabs open, they will be spread across different browser windows for better multi-tasking. In Windows 10, the taskbar can have the browser icon and the window title, so you know which to click on. Default Windows 11 doesn't have that. Similar to MacOS, you just have to click random shit. And then power users with 4 monitors, Windows 11 and MacOS don't let you configure it so that application icon only appears on the monitor taskbar where the window actually is. Example: If spotify and Google Chat are on my bottom right monitor of my 4-monitor setup, there is no need for their taskbar entry to appear on the other 3 monitors.


tl;dr
In a world with more and more web-based software, Windows 11 / MacOS's taskbar sucks. Having 4-5 browser windows just have the same stupid browser icon and nothing else fails to communicate the contents.

Just checked one of these. SPF: Pass. Mailed by gmail.com

I noticed if the spam utilizes a properly authenticated Gmail account, the mail reaches my inbox. Everything else Google seems to be pretty good at putting in the spam folder, but they give a free pass if you authenticate via Gmail it appears.

When customers order merchant-fulfilled offers from us and pay extra for 2-day, our packages make it to the customer in 2 days 99% of the time. If that falls to 98%, Amazon blocks us from offering 2-day upgrades for 30 days, and then we even have to appeal to "explain how it won't happen again", implying we have any control over the SAME carriers Amazon uses.

When customers order the Amazon-fulfilled offer and get "free" 2-day shipping, we are seeing a less than 90% on-time delivery rate. If a customer wants a refund, Amazon deducts it from us, the merchant.

Amazon requires us to raise prices on other websites, which I think it part of what got the FTC's attention. Even though our fees are higher on Amazon, they require (now secretly, since they were spanked once) that they be the lowest price. Well, in some cases that meant we had to raise the price for customers on other platforms.


My favorite one is that we had to stop shipping to military members. They used to order protein powder or headphones, things like that. A surprise to no one, overseas bases don't always have delivery confirmation on shipments. Perhaps it is a security issue? Who knows, but the lack of delivery confirmation more than a certain % of the time meant we either cut off the military, or we get shut down by Amazon for everyone.



I'm in agreement that shitty third party sellers have caused some knee-jerk reactions, but Amazon is hardly better at it themselves.

But in those examples, the funds are pulled back from the merchant, so how would that be raising their costs?

Am merchant. Order Not Received chargebacks result in the financial institution taking the money back.

The fulfillment logistics isn't are great as people think. It just doesn't have real competition - yet
Our products are constantly out of stock. When we send them in to Amazon, they now have us split the shipment to multiple places. Once received, they are then out of stock for weeks as Amazon does another warehouse transfer. Why didn't we just ship to the final warehouses?

Amazon routinely loses inventory. It takes a paid 3rd party solution to download reports every 15 minutes to catch these discrepancies then open a case for reimbursement. Then Amazon magically finds it.

You can send 9 products in a box in a 3x3 tic tac toe grid, and Amazon will receive that as either 8 or 10, despite even a child being able to see that a 3x3 perfectly filled in grid must be 9.


Walmart is one of the closest competitors, but once you use their back-end you can see they didn't even think to secretly sign up at Amazon and copy the Good Parts of Amazon. Instead of Walmart getting a head start in their deployment, they went for the clean room implementation for reasons unknown.

"adding it wasn't right for some employees to be in the office three days a week while others refuse to do so"

So what? Is it right other employees make middle class wages, while Amazon executives do not? If every employee is being paid the CEO's salary, perhaps we can talk about fair.

The irony of re-naming your company around Meta, which is some virtual Utopia, but said company won't even accept the virtual part in-house. So it is all hot gas right?

Speaking of fractions, 1% of the 835 million people who fly in the US airlines each year is still 8 million mishandled bags per year. Of course, that makes the huge assumption that everyone traveled with a checked bag. They do not, but many people check more than one bag, so it is plausible that evens it out.

On slashdot, we know 99% uptime isn't as great as it sounds.

What platform, my own device that makes GET requests? What a brazen way of wording it. Am I allowed to look away from ads on your platform? Sneeze with my eyes closed?

The more accurate analogy is that you, as a landlord, must constantly have your private conversations listened to, in case at the dinner table you mention to your wife that you noticed suspicious things going on at your rental.


I'm surprised you are on slashdot, yet didn't understand the technology being discussed to make a more accurate analogy. Interesting audience here.