I'm so tempted to use profanity to describe the jackasses at Mozilla for what they've done to Firefox. Very few of the millions of people who now call themselves "former Firefox users" will come back. That includes me. I'm certainly not a spokesman for this group, but I bet my situation is very much like theirs.
'Way back at the beginning, I did not choose Firefox because it was the fastest browser out there. I chose it because it gave reasonable performance, used tabs, and offered all kinds of interesting add-ons that put me unambiguously in charge of my on-line experience. Before long, I had my browser configured exactly the way I wanted it. Life was good.
So did I stop visiting the Firefox add-ons site? Hell no! It was both fun and interesting to see what some clever person had come up with that I might want to try...often things I'd never have thought of on my own. Test driving was incredibly fast and easy, and if I didn't like an app or got tired of it, I could get rid of it in seconds.
This was what I loved: I had a core browser that was reliable and fast enough for my purposes, and that I used when I actually needed to be productive. And I had an endlessly-fascinating toy that let me try out interesting, fun things whenever I wanted. When Chrome came out, I gave it a try...why wouldn't I? It was fast, alright. And utterly soulless. I uninstalled it after only a week.
So then the a-holes at Firefox decided they wanted to be Chrome. Even worse, they started screwing around with my GUI, apparently for sport. Classic Theme Restorer could only do so much. But that was only the symptom, not the disease. The disease was the Chrome obsession. And look at them now. "Add-ons" is now a dirty word. But oh my, they're the fastest (maybe).
So here we are today. The people who ruined Firefox are proudly trumpeting that they've turned it into an even faster Chrome. Good luck with that. I didn't want Chrome in the first place. I don't want it now. And I especially don't want a Chrome wannabe that reminds me every time I launch it what I have lost.
So thanks, Firefox, but I think I'll stay with Pale Moon as my regular browser, and Epic as my main backup. If you ever manage to buy back your soul, give me a call.
I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing if we (as a society, whatever the country happens to be) train more people than there are jobs in their field. Anybody who can do math and science has tools that are useful in other lines of work, and if the best of the best get good jobs that match their qualifications...so much the better.
Then there's the fact that we increase the odds of lightning striking. We really can't afford to have the next Einstein or Hawking flipping burgers at McD's. I think we all benefit from choosing to make sure anybody with an amazing mind gets a chance to use it in a field that changes things rather than leading a law firm somewhere.
Yeah, compare that Bernie guy to Bush Junior, whose "real world" life experience apparently amounted to lying drunk in a ditch while his classmates went on to serve their country in combat.
Ignore the small-souled bean counters who are entirely convinced you will never wind up making a contribution to a cure for cancer, or the first workable fusion reactor, or add a small piece of the puzzle to the problems of aging or perhaps limb regeneration.
These are conservatives. They know the cost of everything and the value of nothing. As far as they're concerned, you aren't an investment. You're nothing but an up-scale counter clerk, worth not one cent more than the hours you worked yesterday.
Come on up to Canada, or maybe move to the EU. The US is already falling behind in cutting edge research. The so-called "god particle" was discovered at CERN because these bean-counting half wits yanked funding from the planned US particle accelerator that would have relegated CERN's large hadron collider to the dustbin. And China has just built a hyper-sonic wind tunnel that blows the doors off anything in the US.
Even if the current crop of envious, anti-intellectual cretins is swept from power, the damage they have already done will take a decade to fix, maybe longer. If you want to win a Nobel Prize some day, you would do better to come to a country where "research" isn't defined as "can you write software to cut a millisecond off e-trades and make Goldman Sachs even richer".
I remember back when the Tesla Roadster had just been released, and certain parts of the Slashdot crowd were boldly predicting that Tesla would be bankrupt in months. And then Musk borrowed a bunch of money from the US government, and they boldly predicted Tesla would be bankrupt before it paid back a penny. Then Tesla paid it all back and released the S model, and the same crew (with additions) predicted Tesla would be bankrupt in months, and Elon Musk would be begging on street corners with a cup. Then the SUV, and Space X safely landed a bunch of first stage boosters, and the Model 3. Then Tesla open-sourced quite a lot of its patents, and the shrieks of rage could be heard for miles. How DARE they!
And at every stage, growing ever larger as the alt right decided Slashdot would be a worthwhile acquisition, the same group confidently predicted the ruin of Space X, Tesla, and anything else Elon Musk did. And every time they've been proved wrong. It appears they now have been moved to redefine "success" as "anything Elon Musk does not do".
So now Tesla proposes to produce and sell a full-on long-range tractor, and once again, a significant percentage of the comments here are all about how it will fail, and it's ugly and people will die and the world will end when electric trucks take over...and they will, though not for a few years yet.
So I'll just head off to the office now, expecting to get modded down because it's 8:30 EST, and that usually means people without jobs (cough...alt right...cough) will be hanging around. And I'll smile because I know I'll be seeing a fair number of electric trucks on the road before I retire.
Echoing the sentiments of such security giants as Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon and Chicken Shack, Mr. Morrison, CEO of security company "Doors" was crystal clear about an increased role for women in protecting certain software and hardware ports from unanticipated penetration.
Me: "You may have x. I will not give you y. I will give you something sort of like z."
You: "Thank you for telling me what I can have. I now understand I did not need y anyway. My request for y deserved to be turned down. And clearly you know more about z than I do, and your somewhat close copy will obviously be better."
Me: "Oh...and get used to DRM. It's baked in and you may not refuse it."
Thank you for responding to that idiot better than I could have. Most Firefox users didn't go in that direction for raw speed and a new GUI every frickin' week. In the early days (and yes, I was an early adopter) it worked reasonably well and featured a consistently-increasing number of add-ons that let you turn it into a browser that did exactly what you wanted. At the time, it was really the only choice for people who wanted to customize their web-surfing experience.
Fast forward to now...The only thing that has kept me from dumping Firefox completely (I use Pale Moon mostly, but there's some sites it just won't render properly) is Classic Theme Restorer. Now, apparently, the developer is being given the cold shoulder by Firefox.
So screw 'em. I'll keep my current version for those rare occasions when I need it and use an alternative for everything else. Mostly that will continue to be Pale Moon. When I really care about privacy/security, I don't bother with "Private Browsing" on either of them. I just use Epic.
Think of all the free publicity Walmart gets when a dozen dime-store duchesses in animal skin prints roll around in the Toy Department throwing punches over the last Tickle Me Roy Boy doll at the Alabama superstore. You simply cannot buy that kind of social media presence!
And how better to remind "Sales Associates" who's boss than to rip them away from their families on Thanksgiving? They should be thankful for their minimum-wage jobs and quit whining about that family values nonsense.
Work with me here, people. Get those assless chaps out of the closet, wiggle into that skin-tight XXXXXL spandex shirt that says "My Warm-up Is Your Workout", and head down to Wally World for a Black Friday - Cyber Monday Shop-a-thon!
Only one week left! It's almost time for really serious bargain hounds to grab the sleeping bags and get in line.
Perhaps I'd find this sudden concern about security a bit more believable if Google hadn't allowed every app that's come down the pipe since the Stone Age basically to rape whatever device it's installed on. Why does just about every game in the app store "need" access to my contacts, or permission to read my browser history?
I have only one Android device, a tablet. The first thing I did after getting it home was to root it and install CyanogenMod.
I wish I could believe this move by Google meant they intended to reexamine a corporate mindset apparently dedicated to the utter destruction of any vestige of privacy among those using its ubiquitous services.
Sadly, I can harbour no such illusions. That's unfortunate, because this admittedly security-related measure will hurt many people who don't regard themselves as "disabled", but who need easy access to the services affected.
"Giving people money with no strings attached generally results in that money being wasted (see: the government)"
Americans, with their touching belief that corporations don't waste as much or more money than your basic government, have got to be the most self-satisfied propaganda victims on the planet. I'd stack 'em up any day against your basic Chinese peasant who never heard anything unusual happened in Tienanmen Square.
I think the point is that this is what it takes today. It's not difficult to believe others will improve the process now that there's proof it can be done.
And while you may wipe and lock your phone immediately if you lost it, I bet there's a lot of people who wouldn't take that step (if they could) until much too late.
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Here we go again...another Trumptard who hates to have the fact that his god is a cheating con artist pointed out.
So how's that boycott working out?
They'll probably wind up saving a bit of money by hosting it on Russian servers.
My mistake. I thought the point was so a cop could shove it in your face and have it unlock itself for him.
"Anything else you might as well leave your phone unlocked or put a cheap pin on it so that your girlfriend isn't able to view your browser history."
When you've been on Slashdot for more than 10 years, do you get to have a girlfriend?
I use Epic.
I think I'll find out how Brave compares.
I'm so tempted to use profanity to describe the jackasses at Mozilla for what they've done to Firefox. Very few of the millions of people who now call themselves "former Firefox users" will come back. That includes me. I'm certainly not a spokesman for this group, but I bet my situation is very much like theirs.
'Way back at the beginning, I did not choose Firefox because it was the fastest browser out there. I chose it because it gave reasonable performance, used tabs, and offered all kinds of interesting add-ons that put me unambiguously in charge of my on-line experience. Before long, I had my browser configured exactly the way I wanted it. Life was good.
So did I stop visiting the Firefox add-ons site? Hell no! It was both fun and interesting to see what some clever person had come up with that I might want to try...often things I'd never have thought of on my own. Test driving was incredibly fast and easy, and if I didn't like an app or got tired of it, I could get rid of it in seconds.
This was what I loved: I had a core browser that was reliable and fast enough for my purposes, and that I used when I actually needed to be productive. And I had an endlessly-fascinating toy that let me try out interesting, fun things whenever I wanted. When Chrome came out, I gave it a try...why wouldn't I? It was fast, alright. And utterly soulless. I uninstalled it after only a week.
So then the a-holes at Firefox decided they wanted to be Chrome. Even worse, they started screwing around with my GUI, apparently for sport. Classic Theme Restorer could only do so much. But that was only the symptom, not the disease. The disease was the Chrome obsession. And look at them now. "Add-ons" is now a dirty word. But oh my, they're the fastest (maybe).
So here we are today. The people who ruined Firefox are proudly trumpeting that they've turned it into an even faster Chrome. Good luck with that. I didn't want Chrome in the first place. I don't want it now. And I especially don't want a Chrome wannabe that reminds me every time I launch it what I have lost.
So thanks, Firefox, but I think I'll stay with Pale Moon as my regular browser, and Epic as my main backup. If you ever manage to buy back your soul, give me a call.
I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing if we (as a society, whatever the country happens to be) train more people than there are jobs in their field. Anybody who can do math and science has tools that are useful in other lines of work, and if the best of the best get good jobs that match their qualifications...so much the better.
Then there's the fact that we increase the odds of lightning striking. We really can't afford to have the next Einstein or Hawking flipping burgers at McD's. I think we all benefit from choosing to make sure anybody with an amazing mind gets a chance to use it in a field that changes things rather than leading a law firm somewhere.
Yeah, compare that Bernie guy to Bush Junior, whose "real world" life experience apparently amounted to lying drunk in a ditch while his classmates went on to serve their country in combat.
Ignore the small-souled bean counters who are entirely convinced you will never wind up making a contribution to a cure for cancer, or the first workable fusion reactor, or add a small piece of the puzzle to the problems of aging or perhaps limb regeneration.
These are conservatives. They know the cost of everything and the value of nothing. As far as they're concerned, you aren't an investment. You're nothing but an up-scale counter clerk, worth not one cent more than the hours you worked yesterday.
Come on up to Canada, or maybe move to the EU. The US is already falling behind in cutting edge research. The so-called "god particle" was discovered at CERN because these bean-counting half wits yanked funding from the planned US particle accelerator that would have relegated CERN's large hadron collider to the dustbin. And China has just built a hyper-sonic wind tunnel that blows the doors off anything in the US.
Even if the current crop of envious, anti-intellectual cretins is swept from power, the damage they have already done will take a decade to fix, maybe longer. If you want to win a Nobel Prize some day, you would do better to come to a country where "research" isn't defined as "can you write software to cut a millisecond off e-trades and make Goldman Sachs even richer".
I remember back when the Tesla Roadster had just been released, and certain parts of the Slashdot crowd were boldly predicting that Tesla would be bankrupt in months. And then Musk borrowed a bunch of money from the US government, and they boldly predicted Tesla would be bankrupt before it paid back a penny. Then Tesla paid it all back and released the S model, and the same crew (with additions) predicted Tesla would be bankrupt in months, and Elon Musk would be begging on street corners with a cup. Then the SUV, and Space X safely landed a bunch of first stage boosters, and the Model 3. Then Tesla open-sourced quite a lot of its patents, and the shrieks of rage could be heard for miles. How DARE they!
And at every stage, growing ever larger as the alt right decided Slashdot would be a worthwhile acquisition, the same group confidently predicted the ruin of Space X, Tesla, and anything else Elon Musk did. And every time they've been proved wrong. It appears they now have been moved to redefine "success" as "anything Elon Musk does not do".
So now Tesla proposes to produce and sell a full-on long-range tractor, and once again, a significant percentage of the comments here are all about how it will fail, and it's ugly and people will die and the world will end when electric trucks take over...and they will, though not for a few years yet.
So I'll just head off to the office now, expecting to get modded down because it's 8:30 EST, and that usually means people without jobs (cough...alt right...cough) will be hanging around. And I'll smile because I know I'll be seeing a fair number of electric trucks on the road before I retire.
Life is good.
"The men don't know/But the little girls understand.
Echoing the sentiments of such security giants as Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon and Chicken Shack, Mr. Morrison, CEO of security company "Doors" was crystal clear about an increased role for women in protecting certain software and hardware ports from unanticipated penetration.
From the summary: "Raiu says they found evidence that the NSA worker may have been infected with a second backdoor as well..."
I thought computers only had one asshole, and it was generally referred to in polite society as "User".
Thank you for missing the point so completely.
You would be my dream client.
You: "I want x, y and z.
Me: "You may have x. I will not give you y. I will give you something sort of like z."
You: "Thank you for telling me what I can have. I now understand I did not need y anyway. My request for y deserved to be turned down. And clearly you know more about z than I do, and your somewhat close copy will obviously be better."
Me: "Oh...and get used to DRM. It's baked in and you may not refuse it."
You: "Thank you again. Do with me as you will."
Thank you for responding to that idiot better than I could have. Most Firefox users didn't go in that direction for raw speed and a new GUI every frickin' week. In the early days (and yes, I was an early adopter) it worked reasonably well and featured a consistently-increasing number of add-ons that let you turn it into a browser that did exactly what you wanted. At the time, it was really the only choice for people who wanted to customize their web-surfing experience.
Fast forward to now...The only thing that has kept me from dumping Firefox completely (I use Pale Moon mostly, but there's some sites it just won't render properly) is Classic Theme Restorer. Now, apparently, the developer is being given the cold shoulder by Firefox.
So screw 'em. I'll keep my current version for those rare occasions when I need it and use an alternative for everything else. Mostly that will continue to be Pale Moon. When I really care about privacy/security, I don't bother with "Private Browsing" on either of them. I just use Epic.
Think of all the free publicity Walmart gets when a dozen dime-store duchesses in animal skin prints roll around in the Toy Department throwing punches over the last Tickle Me Roy Boy doll at the Alabama superstore. You simply cannot buy that kind of social media presence!
And how better to remind "Sales Associates" who's boss than to rip them away from their families on Thanksgiving? They should be thankful for their minimum-wage jobs and quit whining about that family values nonsense.
Work with me here, people. Get those assless chaps out of the closet, wiggle into that skin-tight XXXXXL spandex shirt that says "My Warm-up Is Your Workout", and head down to Wally World for a Black Friday - Cyber Monday Shop-a-thon!
Only one week left! It's almost time for really serious bargain hounds to grab the sleeping bags and get in line.
Perhaps Google's excellent search engine will help Mozilla find all the missing Firefox users.
Who do you think.
"All 500 of the World's Top 500 Supercomputers Are Running Linux"
And they still can't get their graphics cards to work right.
Perhaps I'd find this sudden concern about security a bit more believable if Google hadn't allowed every app that's come down the pipe since the Stone Age basically to rape whatever device it's installed on. Why does just about every game in the app store "need" access to my contacts, or permission to read my browser history?
I have only one Android device, a tablet. The first thing I did after getting it home was to root it and install CyanogenMod.
I wish I could believe this move by Google meant they intended to reexamine a corporate mindset apparently dedicated to the utter destruction of any vestige of privacy among those using its ubiquitous services.
Sadly, I can harbour no such illusions. That's unfortunate, because this admittedly security-related measure will hurt many people who don't regard themselves as "disabled", but who need easy access to the services affected.
Is it called "Firefox 57" because that's how many users are left?
"Giving people money with no strings attached generally results in that money being wasted (see: the government)"
Americans, with their touching belief that corporations don't waste as much or more money than your basic government, have got to be the most self-satisfied propaganda victims on the planet. I'd stack 'em up any day against your basic Chinese peasant who never heard anything unusual happened in Tienanmen Square.
I think the point is that this is what it takes today. It's not difficult to believe others will improve the process now that there's proof it can be done.
And while you may wipe and lock your phone immediately if you lost it, I bet there's a lot of people who wouldn't take that step (if they could) until much too late.
I swear to you I was thinking along those lines, but none of the comments really deserved it.
Something like, "If your iToy gets too cold, just tell your Mom you need it smuggled into prison and give her five minutes alone with it.