I haven't seen that in years. The best you get these days is when you run Firefox an an update magically happened there's a tab that opens to let you know what's new.

I didn't write any bug reports, mainly because by the time I get to it someone else already has. And they still get treated like shit and marked WONTFIX. So yeah I may come across as a grump cunt at times, but it's not me Mozilla team is hating on.

The problem with morals is that they vary between people. Privacy just isn't a concern for many, myself included. Oh noes Google knows I am posting on Slashdot right now, whooop de do. It didn't actually affect me beyond targeted (blocked) advertising. On the flip side Firefox's UI hanging affects me. Pointlessly screwing with keyboard shortcuts that have been in place for 20 years affects me.

Morals don't me use my computer. Recalibrating the compass doesn't change anything.

Memory doesn't just leak from the act of having tabs, it leaks from specifics of what is being done in the tabs. Firefox sucks at for example releasing memory from expired DOM objects. You want to run a comparison, open up 1 tab, just one in Firefox and one in Chrome and go to reddit. Start scrolling. Scroll for a while the same distance on both and see which one is using what memory. I'll wager that one tab is using an order of magnitude more than your 372.

I've written it here in 3 separate replies already. I'm not writing it out again. https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...

It's not always ignorance it's often just apathy. I know plenty of people who don't use adblockers not because they don't know they exist, but because they just don't give a shit.

That sounds like fun, if your idea of fun is for increased latency with every DNS query which either isn't cached or has had cache expired.

There's a reason DNS is setup in a tree structure.

The reality though is your concerns are minor. There's very little that can be done with a DNS query and an IP address, especially in a world of dynamic and shared IP addresses. The risk of someone tracking you via DNS queries is quite minor to the point where it's borderline not done (it's like joining an F1 race in a Ford model T, the process is outdated to the point of irrelevance).

There's good reasons to not use your ISP's server (bypass local censorship, and bypassing the one group who could actually tie your IP address to a meaningful account), but there's virtually no privacy implications to using Google's or Cloudflare's. Now... on the other hand ... actual server requests that make it to their destination are actively dangerous. Tracking pixels, fingerprinting, javascript, and a whole world of shit that is actually serious can be blocked by blocking certain DNS queries from ever resolving. But you don't need to go trotting through the internet hitting root servers for that.

Yes. Plenty. Firefox seems to have problems releasing memory in off screen DOM objects resulting in an endless memory leak. It also has a tendency to fully lock up the UI when a web page displays more than 3 pre-loaded video elements at once - a problem that is resolved by minimising and restoring the window using windows hotkeys. All in all you can't do something as mind boggling complex as scrolling through reddit without hitting some breaking bug.

It has a problem with cache release meaning your cache will grow endlessly and fill up the disk space if you're using an webapp and don't close the tab.

That's just the bugs I come across. Then there's their distain for users. Who can forget a few years ago re naming the menu item "Copy Link Loc(A)tion" to "Copy (L)ink" because apparently one was too confusing for user. Apparently they have no problem fucking with their entire user's base's 20 years of developed muscle memory while also extending a middle finger to right handed people who used to not need to take their hand off their mouse to use a commonly used keyboard shortcut.

Oh but there's no "a" in "Copy Link" they said as a justification. When I pointed out that "Preview Link" doesn't have a J in it, "Split view" doesn't have an M in it, and "Inspect" doesn't have a Q in it, they quickly locked the thread.

Bonus points: There was a plugin that restored the broken functionality, but it was from an unvetted Chinese developer and hurrah now all the users who liked their muscle memory ended up with malware.

Sorry but if they tell their users they can go fuck themselves, then they deserve the same reaction from their users. I still try to like Firefox, I still have it installed and see every so often if it is actually usable or not, but god fucking damnit this is a toxic relationship.

Quantum was an improvement and then they repeatedly shat the bed afterwards. I used Firefox exclusively from 2018 and reverted to Chrome after they introduced a muscle memory breaking change in 2023, gave an internally inconsistent justification for the completely pointless change, and then told the users effectively to fuck off resulting in a bunch of users installing a Chinese plugin to revert the functionality only for them to find it was malware.

Mozilla needs some fucking soul searching not a damn VPN.

No their timeline is identical to Chromium's. That page you linked to was last updated September last year, and at that point the timeline from Google themselves was also TBD. Microsoft is not maintaining an upstream-incompatible fork. If they did they wouldn't have been following Google's Manifest V2 changes in lock step until now.

That's sort of beside the point. Those people who wanted to use their own specific plugin with brave no longer will be able to, and will be dependent on their own internal thing.

Mind you this coming from a browser which appended affiliate links to user inputs. We've debated at length here before how much Brave can be trusted. Bottom line is there are concerns including that it's ToR mode may not be safe. It does provide a lot of privacy from websniffers though, to the point where its inbuilt adblocker had a tendency to break more things than ublock origin did.

Your comparison is *checks technical definition* fucking stupid. The crabby lady at the DMV's job is her job within the confines of what she needs expertise for. The DMV is full of people who understand the technical details of what they require. They are good at managing large databases, tracking of license and vehicle registrations, and addresses. You've received a fine before right? Clearly they are good at what they do.

My guess is the lady is probably also quite nice, sees you coming and adjusts her attitude to treat a pretentious asshole like you accordingly.

You know Starlink and the ISS are in different orbits right? If I throw a brick out my window would you worry about it hitting you given you don't have a clue where on earth I am right now?

Take a Xanax or smoke a joint. You're clearly too stressed.

Earthlink has no satellite constellation of their own, I suspect you were trying to be clever but didn't realise that Earthlink is an ISP that partners with a satellite company that doesn't operate in LEO.
Starlink on the other hand have objects that de-orbit in 5 years, not 10-20.

We have objectively not, and are very far from it.

Completely incorrect based on your own first sentence which itself was incorrect in stating too long of a time frame. Starlink launches are already effectively largely on a replacement schedule with most satellites going up now replacing ones that are already de-orbiting.,

Kessler's syndrome is a thing, but calm your panic, we're way far away from it and at the point where we're tracking objects that at its most critical pass many km from each other as a very infrequent and easily manageable event.

I think you are reading what I said too literally. The point is the UK never had any right to free speech enshrined in any part of their constitution and that EU law they adopted also carves out all manner of edge cases which restrict freedoms.

It's not just a case of state secrets or shouting fire in a theatre. In the UK you can be in trouble for being grossly offensive as well (wording even more loose than hate speech).

Given the kitsch look I think USA "envisioned" products these days are a hard pass. The phone looks like the kind of cheap trinket you'd buy at a Marrakesh market for someone who tells you it's 100 dirham but when you go to pay claims you agreed to pay 100 euros.

Except that market stall owner has more integrity and is more trustworthy than Trump.

Of course Donald Trump is trustworthy. He tried his best, but ultimately he was hamstrung by HUSSEIN Obama destroying manufacturing in this country by selling out to China using Hunter's laptop. There was a plan for Biden to fix this but he fell asleep. It was all there in Hillary's emails. The dumbocrats have destroyed the country. Also did you know how smart Donald Trump is? Apparently most people don't even know dumb has a b on the end. Trump did. He pointed it out. The man's genius has no bounds and you criticising him makes you a horrible person piggy.