Every time there's a new Firefox release, I sit back and watch a very vocal group spewing the same old tired rants and lies:
Firefox is released too often. Why would you want to wait a year or more between releases as it was the case in the 3.x days? It's better to have features released as they are ready and improved upon and not wait years to release them at once and have most of them not work properly. Why does it matter if it's Firefox 33, or firefox 4.33 or Firefox 2014-10?
The UI is a copy of Chrome's. There are not many ways you could do a minimalist browser interface. If you don't know shit about design, don't talk about design. Shit, probably these people think that design is some useless, time wasting activity that hipsters do and then jerk off to it. Why would you want to see more of the UI when you could see more of the content. Also there are multiple ways to customize Firefox and make it look as bad or as complicated you wish. You can even make it look like your grandma's browser for 1999.
Firefox uses a lot of memory and has memory leaks. Firefox is the most frugal browser when it comes to memory and doesn't have more memory leaks than other browsers. It fact it's the best browser to use if you use lots of tabs. Sure, maybe you can find a corner case or some extension that sucks memory, but I bet you can find that in any browser or application of the same complexity. I have Firefox installed on a lot of 512mb,1gb,2gb and 4gb machines and it works just fine.
Firefox is unstable. It might be unstable if you use shitty extensions. Just stop using shitty extensions that crash your browser. You wouldn't use apps that crash your OS, would you?
Firefox is going extinct. No it is not, even by a long shot. It still has 500mil users. People are still using it because it's a good product, not because it's pushed down their throat by every means possible as is the case with Chrome or was the case with Internet Explorer back in the 90s. (Not saying Chrome is a bad browser, just that the difference in market share is because of marketing not because of quality).
Firefox is breaking addons with every upgrade. This probably hasn't happened in years and years and even if it did it's understandable and forgivable when an addon hasn't been updated in years and uses antiquated APIs that are incompatible with the speed and security we've come to expect from modern browsers. I'm not running DOS apps on the latest version of Windows, why would you want to run old, slow and unsecure addons?
Besides that let me tell you some of the positive things that none of you assholes mention, because you like to talk out of your ass without even using the damn browser - it has the best looking and most intuitive developer tools out of any browser, a fast and feature complete Android browser with extensions, the best extensions out there out of any desktop browser, they offer an awesome email client and let's not forget that Mozilla is one of the best and most trustworthy organizations out there.
Well, how the about USA stays inside it's already fucking generous borders and it lives of its more than generous natural resources? China is not going to invade you. And your allies can go screw themselves.
He's just a puppet for the people with real power in his party (PSD... former communist party). His role is to shake things up and take the fall if it doesn't work out.
Really? His analysis is almost correct - what is not correct and a bit naive on his part is the fact that he thinks of the president as a great savior. The crack down on the corrupt former prime minister Adrian Nastase was in fact a way for the president and his party (PDL) to get back in the polls. I don't think he did it out of the goodness of his heart, but the accusations are valid and unfortunately are only a drop in the ocean when it comes to Adrian Nastase and his party (PSD). By the way, his party is the former communist party re-branded and it's full of former communist figures and secret police members. Ponta is just a pathetic puppet.
For the curious the post above translates to: "Fuck your mother! Fuck off!"
As a once gadget developer I say "Fuck you Microsoft!" and here's why... when gadgets were all the shit they pushed the gadget gallery and they pushed it hard. OMG, you can program in JS and HTML, you can reuse your webdeveloping skills. I was excited as fuck. So I made a farely popular free gadget. I thought that they would expand their site to make non-free gadgets possible, since the "gadget store" was littered with mentions about a misterious Microsoft currency, but that didn't happen, the updates were approved in more than two weeks, complaints about a dude who copied my gadget and published it in his name went unanswered for years, the docs were shit and incomplete, the gadget site was buggy, the Windows gadget app was buggy, IE9 made it even buggier, my polite post on the dev forum about the future of the Gadget Gallery was censored, really WTF?
Is this how MS will treat their Metro developers if it doesn't have the success the corporate douchebags in Redmond expect it to?
I can't imagine a web with no Javascript. It's like using half of the web. I'm a webdeveloper and website owner and I really, really, really don't care about people who don't have Javascript enabled. I'd rather give the rest a great experience and I don't want to spend time and resources to provide a fallback.
Also advertising supports many of my favorite sites. I probably wouldn't be paying for a subscription, but I think it's common courtesy to give website owners the chance to make a buck for their hard work. I have Adblock installed and I only use it when ads are too annoying that they disturb my browsing experience.
If you want to try a new great browser from Mozilla, try the Firefox Mobile Nightly for Android: http://nightly.mozilla.org/ It still has some bugs, being a nightly and all, but the performance is great, the UI is miles ahead of anything on Android, it has Flash support and IMO, the best rendering engine on Android.
"Burden of Proof" refers to the fact that the person who claims something for which he or she has no tangible evidence and said claim is well beyond common sense has to provide the proof. Other people don't have to proove shit.
For example: I say that if people concentrate enough they can move objects by thought alone. You can ask me to prove it or STFU. I don't get to say that you have to prove that people can't move objects with their mind, because my claim is so outrageous and really it's not how things work in the real word. Why does religion get to be so special that even common logic doesn't apply to it?
This is a non-issue. It's not up to science to dismiss crazy fairy tales. The burden of proof falls on the shoulders of believers claming stupid shit. We have a saying in my country: a fool throws a rock in the water and 10 wise man can't get it out.
Or in other words: "My head hurts when I think of new things and I just want to milk the same old cash cow for ever and ever till the end of time. Fuck the customers and what they want or need. I don't want to bother making a new business model out of their needs. And also I eat baby kittens".
I'm not saying that corruption is something specific to the gypsies. In fact the prosecutor in the article was corrupt and he was austrian (?). The problem is that for them it's just something so usual for them in their interactions with other societies (whether it works or not).
The gypsy train of thought is something like this: OK, so I've got to solve a problem: Can I intimidate the dude? I'll just threaten him and his family with my hundreds of relatives. Can I blackmail him somehow? Can I steal something from him? Maybe then I can take the most pitiful posture and humiliate myself, so I can beg it out of him? Can I bribe him? If not I can lie to whoever is in charge, while caring two small children and screaming like I'm possessed. Did neither of this work? And I have to work to solve this problem? Aww, fuck it, I'll just find something else... maybe I'll go to France or Italy.
BTW, I'm not exaggerating... we have to put up with this shit every day.
Except that, a couple of millenia ago, when the Roman empire invaded these places and wiped the floor with the local Thracians, a lot of Romans settled here - so many in fact, that the old Thracian language was lost forever save for a few words. People in these parts were Romans speaking latin.
Having said that, I personally think the country's name is silly, but they needed a name for the two united Romanian countries in the mid 19th century (Moldavia and Valahia). I think it was also a statement against the Ottoman and the Russian empires. Something like - even if you surround and oppress us, fuck you, we are not like you, we'll never be and in fact we're better than you because we were Romans once.
And to add insult to injury they are calling themselves Rroma instead of Gypsies, because they claim that the word Gypsy is demeaning and not politically correct.
The irony is that, in the Romanian language the word Gypsy ("tigan") is purely descriptive of their ethnicity (same as words like German, French or Romanian), but in time began to have a bad connotation because of the way Gypsies behaved (all sort of cons, small time crime, corruption etc). So came a time when they decided to rebrand themselves.
According to Wikipedia, "rom" means "man" in their language, while the name Romania comes from "Rome" (a 19th century reference to the fact that the Romanian people is Latin). Gypsies from Romania were quick to capitalize on this coincidence recommending themselves as Romanians when it suited them, which became a problem for legitimate Romanian citizens traveling abroad in many Western states for purposes other than begging, stealing, coning and raping.
The big problem is that their traditional culture is very strong and they can't be educated (eduction is free and mandatory in Romania, still they refuse it) and integrated into the Romanian and European societies. I think a people is beyond hope when they cripple their own children to earn more money from begging and when they throw their their children in front of more expensive cars to blackmail the drivers. Another problem is that they multiply like rabbits - there's no concept of birth control whatsoever and the state supports the kids and the mothers with some ridiculously small subventions (but when your main source of income is stealing copper wires and railroad tracks, I suppose every bit counts).
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73 + 16 + 11 = 100% Doesn't Spotify keep anything?
Go Firefox! Good job as always.
Firefox for Android is really good.
Every time there's a new Firefox release, I sit back and watch a very vocal group spewing the same old tired rants and lies:
Besides that let me tell you some of the positive things that none of you assholes mention, because you like to talk out of your ass without even using the damn browser - it has the best looking and most intuitive developer tools out of any browser, a fast and feature complete Android browser with extensions, the best extensions out there out of any desktop browser, they offer an awesome email client and let's not forget that Mozilla is one of the best and most trustworthy organizations out there.
Have you ever heard about a little thing called permissions? If you have a phone capable of installing applications check it out. It's marvelous.
Someone forgot to take their meds this morning ...
I don't own another version of Windows ... how the hell do I buy a version of Windows 8 that's not an upgrade? That website is a mess.
Well, how the about USA stays inside it's already fucking generous borders and it lives of its more than generous natural resources? China is not going to invade you. And your allies can go screw themselves.
Nice trolling you've got going on here. Seriously, why do you feel that diverting funds from war making to science and progress is a bad idea?
He's just a puppet for the people with real power in his party (PSD ... former communist party). His role is to shake things up and take the fall if it doesn't work out.
Really? His analysis is almost correct - what is not correct and a bit naive on his part is the fact that he thinks of the president as a great savior. The crack down on the corrupt former prime minister Adrian Nastase was in fact a way for the president and his party (PDL) to get back in the polls. I don't think he did it out of the goodness of his heart, but the accusations are valid and unfortunately are only a drop in the ocean when it comes to Adrian Nastase and his party (PSD). By the way, his party is the former communist party re-branded and it's full of former communist figures and secret police members. Ponta is just a pathetic puppet.
For the curious the post above translates to: "Fuck your mother! Fuck off!"
How?? I also have a Galaxy S and it barely lasts one day. With data on, it lasts a few hours at best. What ROM are you on?
Real Metro apps can be written in JS and HTML. Troll much?
As a once gadget developer I say "Fuck you Microsoft!" and here's why ... when gadgets were all the shit they pushed the gadget gallery and they pushed it hard. OMG, you can program in JS and HTML, you can reuse your webdeveloping skills. I was excited as fuck. So I made a farely popular free gadget. I thought that they would expand their site to make non-free gadgets possible, since the "gadget store" was littered with mentions about a misterious Microsoft currency, but that didn't happen, the updates were approved in more than two weeks, complaints about a dude who copied my gadget and published it in his name went unanswered for years, the docs were shit and incomplete, the gadget site was buggy, the Windows gadget app was buggy, IE9 made it even buggier, my polite post on the dev forum about the future of the Gadget Gallery was censored, really WTF?
Is this how MS will treat their Metro developers if it doesn't have the success the corporate douchebags in Redmond expect it to?
and you are proud of this because ....
I can't imagine a web with no Javascript. It's like using half of the web. I'm a webdeveloper and website owner and I really, really, really don't care about people who don't have Javascript enabled. I'd rather give the rest a great experience and I don't want to spend time and resources to provide a fallback.
Also advertising supports many of my favorite sites. I probably wouldn't be paying for a subscription, but I think it's common courtesy to give website owners the chance to make a buck for their hard work. I have Adblock installed and I only use it when ads are too annoying that they disturb my browsing experience.
I don't use any of these add-ons, so I can say for sure, but after doing a quick search it seems it does. Check it out for yourself: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/search/?q=adblock&appver=&platform=
Also, I forgot to mention in my first post ... I use it on an ICS Asus Transformer, so I've got no idea how it works on phones.
If you want to try a new great browser from Mozilla, try the Firefox Mobile Nightly for Android: http://nightly.mozilla.org/
It still has some bugs, being a nightly and all, but the performance is great, the UI is miles ahead of anything on Android, it has Flash support and IMO, the best rendering engine on Android.
And your point is?
"Burden of Proof" refers to the fact that the person who claims something for which he or she has no tangible evidence and said claim is well beyond common sense has to provide the proof. Other people don't have to proove shit.
For example: I say that if people concentrate enough they can move objects by thought alone. You can ask me to prove it or STFU. I don't get to say that you have to prove that people can't move objects with their mind, because my claim is so outrageous and really it's not how things work in the real word. Why does religion get to be so special that even common logic doesn't apply to it?
This is a non-issue. It's not up to science to dismiss crazy fairy tales. The burden of proof falls on the shoulders of believers claming stupid shit. We have a saying in my country: a fool throws a rock in the water and 10 wise man can't get it out.
Or in other words: "My head hurts when I think of new things and I just want to milk the same old cash cow for ever and ever till the end of time. Fuck the customers and what they want or need. I don't want to bother making a new business model out of their needs. And also I eat baby kittens".
I'm not saying that corruption is something specific to the gypsies. In fact the prosecutor in the article was corrupt and he was austrian (?). The problem is that for them it's just something so usual for them in their interactions with other societies (whether it works or not).
The gypsy train of thought is something like this: OK, so I've got to solve a problem: Can I intimidate the dude? I'll just threaten him and his family with my hundreds of relatives. Can I blackmail him somehow? Can I steal something from him? Maybe then I can take the most pitiful posture and humiliate myself, so I can beg it out of him? Can I bribe him? If not I can lie to whoever is in charge, while caring two small children and screaming like I'm possessed. Did neither of this work? And I have to work to solve this problem? Aww, fuck it, I'll just find something else ... maybe I'll go to France or Italy.
BTW, I'm not exaggerating ... we have to put up with this shit every day.
Except that, a couple of millenia ago, when the Roman empire invaded these places and wiped the floor with the local Thracians, a lot of Romans settled here - so many in fact, that the old Thracian language was lost forever save for a few words. People in these parts were Romans speaking latin.
Having said that, I personally think the country's name is silly, but they needed a name for the two united Romanian countries in the mid 19th century (Moldavia and Valahia). I think it was also a statement against the Ottoman and the Russian empires. Something like - even if you surround and oppress us, fuck you, we are not like you, we'll never be and in fact we're better than you because we were Romans once.
And to add insult to injury they are calling themselves Rroma instead of Gypsies, because they claim that the word Gypsy is demeaning and not politically correct.
The irony is that, in the Romanian language the word Gypsy ("tigan") is purely descriptive of their ethnicity (same as words like German, French or Romanian), but in time began to have a bad connotation because of the way Gypsies behaved (all sort of cons, small time crime, corruption etc). So came a time when they decided to rebrand themselves.
According to Wikipedia, "rom" means "man" in their language, while the name Romania comes from "Rome" (a 19th century reference to the fact that the Romanian people is Latin). Gypsies from Romania were quick to capitalize on this coincidence recommending themselves as Romanians when it suited them, which became a problem for legitimate Romanian citizens traveling abroad in many Western states for purposes other than begging, stealing, coning and raping.
The big problem is that their traditional culture is very strong and they can't be educated (eduction is free and mandatory in Romania, still they refuse it) and integrated into the Romanian and European societies. I think a people is beyond hope when they cripple their own children to earn more money from begging and when they throw their their children in front of more expensive cars to blackmail the drivers. Another problem is that they multiply like rabbits - there's no concept of birth control whatsoever and the state supports the kids and the mothers with some ridiculously small subventions (but when your main source of income is stealing copper wires and railroad tracks, I suppose every bit counts).