1) The new theme is too bulky, inconsistent on different platforms, and inferior to the highly refined and very user friendly theme of 1.5 (this is despite late efforts by Mozilla to spruce up the icon set and improve consistency)
The new theme is much better.
2) Antiphishing technology is both weak (blacklist based) and a potential privacy problem. The privacy issues are raised because Firefox 2.0 Antiphishing Features employ an engine previously released by Google, which has been shown to potentially cause privacy risks.
Sending URLs to Google is disabled by default.
9) RSS feed handling has taken a step backwards, and is inferior to that of IE7.
Mozilla Thunderbird is better for reading RSS feeds.
In September gmail started rejecting many good e-mails. That's why I've switched to my ISP's e-mail.
I want to receive all incoming e-mails, but in gmail it's impossible to disable filters.
Messages are blocked in the SMTP session, there is no way to whitelist a sender.
The error message is:
550-5.7.1 Our system has detected an unusual amount of unsolicited
550-5.7.1 mail originating from your IP address. To protect our
550-5.7.1 users from spam, mail sent from your IP address has been
550-5.7.1 rejected. Please visit
550-5.7.1 http://www.google.com/mail/help/bulk_mail.html to review
550 5.7.1 our Bulk Email Senders Guidelines.
Blocking a phishing Web site earned you twice as many points as just warning about it in this test, but is blocking really twice as effective as just warning users?'"
The average user ignores all warnings so it is very important to block phishing sites.
For advanced users warning is as effective as blocking a website.
In my opinion the best site for new releases is isoHunt. There are no fake files on isoHunt and isoHunt torrents usually have many reliable trackers cross-referenced from BitTorrent sites across the internet.
For older files Mininova is the best. It has almost 150000 files. Everyone can upload, but there are good moderators who remove fake files. The site has a very fast, CSS-based layout without HTML tables.
I don't use private sites, because it's very hard to have a high ratio on those sites if you don't download 0-day releases. On public sites I have a 1.0-1.1 ratio after 3 hours of seeding. It's impossible on private sites because there are 8 times more seeders than leechers.
very fine-tuned UI aimed for maximum user friendliness
Very bad UI optimized for newbies, with non-meaningful error messages and options hidden in Advanced -> Advanced -> Advanced.
then I hate to think what must have happened when you tried an OS that takes a "more power to the user" ideology, like say, "Linux"?
I have Linux installed on my second HDD and it works well.
When some stupid wizard doesn't work, I can edit the configuration files in/etc.
In Linux (Fedora Core 5) my PPPoE connection works, in Vista it doesn't.
To further add to the absurdity of the previous post, the code you are using is _NOT_ finished.
It's a Release Candidate, which should be 99.9% finished. Not being able to connect to the internet is a major bug.
Many people disable cookies for security/privacy reasons. It definitely doesn't increase security. When cookies are disabled, many websites add ?PHPSESSID=abcdef to URLs (instead of setting a cookie PHPSESSID=abcdef). This allows session hijacking using the HTTP referrer header. For example, if you are on a site http://www.slashdot.org/?PHPSESSID=abcdef and you click on an external link, the remote site gets your session ID. If you have cookies enabled, this attack is impossible.
Captcha doesn't work. Spammers can OCR the images (especially phpBB/IPB/vBulletin/WordPress captchas). It only makes sites inaccessible and doesn't stop automated registrations.
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I couldn't find a media feature for "an input device more precise than a finger-operated touch screen is in use"
This feature will be available in CSS4: Pointing Device Quality: the pointer feature.
https://productforums.google.c...
http://www.howardforums.com/sh...
0.0.0.0 genuine.microsoft.com
is better, because 127.0.0.1 redirects the request to a local webserver.
It blocks about 95% of spam, but some spam messages don't have any links or the links are obfuscated (h* *p :/ / www . example . com).
Akismet is a very good antispam. It blocks 99% of spam on my forum.
CAPTCHA doesn't work, many spambots can solve CAPTCHAs.
The new theme is much better.
Sending URLs to Google is disabled by default.
Mozilla Thunderbird is better for reading RSS feeds.
In September gmail started rejecting many good e-mails. That's why I've switched to my ISP's e-mail.
I want to receive all incoming e-mails, but in gmail it's impossible to disable filters.
Messages are blocked in the SMTP session, there is no way to whitelist a sender.
The error message is:The average user ignores all warnings so it is very important to block phishing sites.
For advanced users warning is as effective as blocking a website.
Long games aren't good - many people stop playing the game before finishing if it's too long.
In my opinion the best site for new releases is isoHunt. There are no fake files on isoHunt and isoHunt torrents usually have many reliable trackers cross-referenced from BitTorrent sites across the internet.
For older files Mininova is the best. It has almost 150000 files. Everyone can upload, but there are good moderators who remove fake files. The site has a very fast, CSS-based layout without HTML tables.
I don't use private sites, because it's very hard to have a high ratio on those sites if you don't download 0-day releases. On public sites I have a 1.0-1.1 ratio after 3 hours of seeding. It's impossible on private sites because there are 8 times more seeders than leechers.
Not troll, PPPoE in Vista really doesn't work and I won't use an operating system which can't connect to the internet.
Very bad UI optimized for newbies, with non-meaningful error messages and options hidden in Advanced -> Advanced -> Advanced.
I have Linux installed on my second HDD and it works well. /etc.
When some stupid wizard doesn't work, I can edit the configuration files in
In Linux (Fedora Core 5) my PPPoE connection works, in Vista it doesn't.
It's a Release Candidate, which should be 99.9% finished. Not being able to connect to the internet is a major bug.
Many people disable cookies for security/privacy reasons. It definitely doesn't increase security.
When cookies are disabled, many websites add ?PHPSESSID=abcdef to URLs (instead of setting a cookie PHPSESSID=abcdef). This allows session hijacking using the HTTP referrer header.
For example, if you are on a site http://www.slashdot.org/?PHPSESSID=abcdef and you click on an external link, the remote site gets your session ID. If you have cookies enabled, this attack is impossible.
Captcha doesn't work. Spammers can OCR the images (especially phpBB/IPB/vBulletin/WordPress captchas). It only makes sites inaccessible and doesn't stop automated registrations.