At opensarcasm.org they mention the Ethiopian sarcasm mark, the Temherte Slaqî. It's pretty much indistinguishable from the Spanish initial exclamation mark. I'd show it here, but Slashdot doesn't support anything beyond basic ASCII, apparently.
Mozilla has just released Firefox 3.6.8, a 'chemspill' release to fix a regression that could allow exploitability.
If anything is found at Black Hat, they'll release Firefox 3.6.9.
I think you're right: Mozilla is mastering the material, not studying for the test. The only thing that really keeps them from getting 100/100 is the lack of implementation of some SVG stuff. See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119490 , specially the last 10 or so comments. However, Mozilla publicly stated that they wanted to fully implement SVG 1.1. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/
On my poor old PC with XP 3 Chrome wins, second is Firefox and 3rd is Opera.
Remember that Firefox is still in beta 1. Mozilla is working on making it faster.
Leaving technicalities aside, the point I was trying to make is that it's not so straightforward to tweak/add functionality to Opera. You just re-affirmed it.
I use Firefox, but I acknowledge that Opera is very, very good. It's super-fast, extremely customizable and powerful out-of-the-box. The bad points of Opera are the obscurity of some of its most useful functions. They are not so easy to manage/find as in Firefox (eg. install AdBlock vs download adblock.ini manually). But Google is your friend: Anything you want for Opera, just Google it. e.g.: AdBlock+Opera, FlashBlock+Opera, greasemonkey+Opera...
If some of these features were easier to manage, I'd probably switch to Opera. Opera's widgets are mostly useless. There's a great amount of games, weather/earthquake-checkers, translators, etc, but Browser-tweaking widgets are lacking.
My 2 Cts.
Contrast what this article says (Ohhh! Nothing found!) with this one:
http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20100629/tesoro-extraterrestre-encerrado-capsula-hayabusa/337615.shtml (Spanish, Google translator is your friend)
"Confirmed. The probe Hayabusa has brought asteroid dust. JAXA scientists have not opened the probe yet [...] but they made a X ray analysis and learned that inside of the capsule there are some particles smaller than a millimeter."
They link to http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2010/06/20100624_hayabusa_e.html for the particle confirmation, but there's nothing of the sorts here.
So, while some journalists claim that nothing (aside from gas) was found, some others claim that there really are some dust particles inside. All this, while JAXA just says that they are still working on it.
Who needs facts when you have a news story?
I answered this questions a few days ago in a different thread, but again:
1st part: _Most_ of the preferences Iron changes can be disabled in _Chromium_ . Keywords: Most, Chromium. How many non-nerds are using Chromium? Is Chromium easily obtainable for non-nerds? Are _all_ the preferences Iron changes easily disabled in Chromium? Are _all_ the preferences easily disabled in _Chrome_?
Regarding the delayed schedule... You are comparing oranges and nectarines, let's say. Iron is based on stable Chromium releases, like Chrome and ChromePlus. Iron is on the Chrome and ChromePlus league, not on the Chromium league. It's based on Chromium because it has to, just like ChromePlus.
2nd part: Soooooo... PaleMoon, CometBird, ChromePlus, etc. are also pretentious and preying on different fears people have regarding the original browsers they are derived from? They don't change much code, but they change the name. They deserve hate as well, I guess.
Yes, Iron changes only a few lines. So what? The guy pulled a "great" ROI with almost no effort. He provides a Chrome alternative that works as advertised, and that massively pisses-off 4 slashdotters. It's always the same story "he only changed a few lines in Chromium". Duh! That's the whole premise of Iron. Perhaps there would be less noise if he called it Chromium+ or Chromium For The Masses.
Again with the SRWare Iron hate?
Does Iron deliver what it promises to deliver? Resounding yes. Is Iron code different from Chrome? Yes, only a few lines, but that was the deal: A Chrome mod stripped from the questionable parts.
I read the logs and the history of Iron and I don't see the big scam. The guy created a product that works as advertised and, due to Germany's anti-Google stance, people there are more likely to go for a de-Googlefied Chrome, therefore _sometimes_ visiting SRWare's website to download it, maybe generating some bucks via adSense or by using some of the other products SRware offers. He was mainly after the good publicity –The guy who stripped Chrome from the bad parts. He got it. He delivered a product that works as promised. Where's the scam?
Loads of money? Pics or it didn't happen. Malware. No. Spyware. No. Iron's code is free to download and examine by anyone with the skills to do so.
Seriously, you guys presenting the IRC logs as evidence that Iron is a money-making scam should read them again.
The fellow/s behind Iron created a Chromium mod that works just as advertised. The creators of ChromePlus did the same with their Chromium mod; the creator of PaleMoon and CometBird did the same with their Firefox mods. Iron's home page is full of nasty ads... Use an adblocker or download Chromium elsewhere.
tl;dr: Iron works as advertised. No scam.
Ahem.
I mostly use Firefox but there is a Flashblock for Chrome. In fact, there are at least 2. The new version of AdBlock Plus for Chrome really blocks most of the adverts, not just hides them. There are also versions of Adblock Plus and FlashBlock for Opera. I'm pretty sure there's also FlashBlock for IE.
tl;dr: There are working versions of FlashBlock and AdBlock Plus for all the major browsers.
There will be no 2013, remember? Nibiru, the Mayas, alignment of the Earth with the plane of the galaxy, the reptilians, the Illuminati, the Bilderberg group...
2012 will be the end of the world.
Firefox has known bugs regarding slowness when dealing with long pages. Some of these bugs have remained unsolved for years, perhaps because they mostly involve rare cases. Go to bugzilla.mozilla. Search for unresolved core bugs with "slow" in the summary. ???? Profit.
http://www.product-reviews.net/2010/05/11/mozilla-firefox-4-beta-video-presentation/
Towards the end of the presentation, if my ears don't deceive me Mr. Beltzner says that there won't be electrolysis until 2011. It seems that they are having many problems with that. You can still try it in the nightlies or in experimental builds, I think.
LOL. I tried SRWare Iron first, and I still like it, but ChromePlus has really nice built-in features. Version 1.4 for Windows should be released soon, based on Chrome 6, if I'm not mistaken. Anyway, more info on ChromePlus' site. Improve your browsing diet with metals.
OK. His intentions are recorded in the IRC log that everyone can, and should, check.
Did he deliver a product that works as advertised along the way? Yes, he did.
So he's evil because...? His actions are immoral because...? He broke the law when he...? And here's where I get lost. The product works "according to spec", it's not malware nor a defective product. People dig in (tinfoil-hatters and Germans, mainly). He gets some ad revenue, good publicity and some extra sales of his other products. That's evil because...? Delivering something that works and people like, getting some bucks along the way is bad because...? And let's not forget that Iron is freely available in literally dozens of freeware/FOSS sites and P2P networks that report exactly $0 to Iron's developer. Crap! This sites have their own adverts and get ad-revenue from offering his product. Gosh! The evil scheme to become a billionaire through ad-revenue had some flaws!
Iron's differences with Chrome even appear listed on Wikipedia. There's nothing to hide. Iron does what it promises to do. "Yeah, but you can do that with options and hacks and stuff". So what? The point of Iron is deliver a crap-free browser, with no Google ID, no RLZ, no GoogleUpdate.exe, etc. from the start. No need for any hacking, deleting, configuring. "Yeah, but you can't turn off some of the settings" - According to spec. Just as stated in Iron's site. If you wanted those options active you probably wouldn't be using Iron, in the first place.
I sense butthurt because this chap managed to get a decent ROI (not a millionaire yet) with a really simple idea and almost no coding at all. He delivered. Damn! This guy is so evil!
Again: Compare Iron's premise with other mods' (CometBird, ChromePlus, PaleMoon...): A more-or-less dead simple modification of a FOSS browser. Deliver some functionality which the original browser doesn't have. Get something in return: bucks, kudos, good PR. Pure evil.
You can install Iron and never visit SRWare's site again. Where is the shady money-making scheme driving users to SRWare's site?
Iron might take you to SRWare's site on first run. Duh! Like dozens of browsers do. Then you click the little X and that's it. You are free to browse whatever you want. IIRC, when you upgrade Iron it doesn't take you to its site again, only the very first time you install it.
Also: Iron does not install GoogleUpdate.exe. Some people don't mind about this fact, others take it as another positive feature over Chrome.
Protip: Compare Iron's "shady" behavior to those of ChromePlus, Palemoon or any other browser mod.
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+5 Insightful. The 'helium balloon + styrofoam + camera + GPS-enabled device' trick has been done before. Just an example.
Also, 30 Km-height != space.
Pedobear Panic Hits Tulsa, Oklahoma
/facepalm
Sexual Harassment Panda seems to have been laid off. Even kids pity him.
Firefox 4.0 b6 has not been released yet. However, the pre-release versions (Minefield) are available here
At opensarcasm.org they mention the Ethiopian sarcasm mark, the Temherte Slaqî. It's pretty much indistinguishable from the Spanish initial exclamation mark. I'd show it here, but Slashdot doesn't support anything beyond basic ASCII, apparently.
And nothing. Merely stating the facts and rectifying some incorrect info in the summary since Fx 3.6.8 had just been released.
Mozilla has just released Firefox 3.6.8, a 'chemspill' release to fix a regression that could allow exploitability. If anything is found at Black Hat, they'll release Firefox 3.6.9.
Switch bank.
I think you're right: Mozilla is mastering the material, not studying for the test. The only thing that really keeps them from getting 100/100 is the lack of implementation of some SVG stuff. See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119490 , specially the last 10 or so comments. However, Mozilla publicly stated that they wanted to fully implement SVG 1.1. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/
On my poor old PC with XP 3 Chrome wins, second is Firefox and 3rd is Opera. Remember that Firefox is still in beta 1. Mozilla is working on making it faster.
Leaving technicalities aside, the point I was trying to make is that it's not so straightforward to tweak/add functionality to Opera. You just re-affirmed it.
Have a good day.
I use Firefox, but I acknowledge that Opera is very, very good. It's super-fast, extremely customizable and powerful out-of-the-box. The bad points of Opera are the obscurity of some of its most useful functions. They are not so easy to manage/find as in Firefox (eg. install AdBlock vs download adblock.ini manually). But Google is your friend: Anything you want for Opera, just Google it. e.g.: AdBlock+Opera, FlashBlock+Opera, greasemonkey+Opera... If some of these features were easier to manage, I'd probably switch to Opera. Opera's widgets are mostly useless. There's a great amount of games, weather/earthquake-checkers, translators, etc, but Browser-tweaking widgets are lacking. My 2 Cts.
Contrast what this article says (Ohhh! Nothing found!) with this one: http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20100629/tesoro-extraterrestre-encerrado-capsula-hayabusa/337615.shtml (Spanish, Google translator is your friend) "Confirmed. The probe Hayabusa has brought asteroid dust. JAXA scientists have not opened the probe yet [...] but they made a X ray analysis and learned that inside of the capsule there are some particles smaller than a millimeter." They link to http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2010/06/20100624_hayabusa_e.html for the particle confirmation, but there's nothing of the sorts here. So, while some journalists claim that nothing (aside from gas) was found, some others claim that there really are some dust particles inside. All this, while JAXA just says that they are still working on it. Who needs facts when you have a news story?
I answered this questions a few days ago in a different thread, but again: 1st part: _Most_ of the preferences Iron changes can be disabled in _Chromium_ . Keywords: Most, Chromium. How many non-nerds are using Chromium? Is Chromium easily obtainable for non-nerds? Are _all_ the preferences Iron changes easily disabled in Chromium? Are _all_ the preferences easily disabled in _Chrome_? Regarding the delayed schedule... You are comparing oranges and nectarines, let's say. Iron is based on stable Chromium releases, like Chrome and ChromePlus. Iron is on the Chrome and ChromePlus league, not on the Chromium league. It's based on Chromium because it has to, just like ChromePlus. 2nd part: Soooooo... PaleMoon, CometBird, ChromePlus, etc. are also pretentious and preying on different fears people have regarding the original browsers they are derived from? They don't change much code, but they change the name. They deserve hate as well, I guess. Yes, Iron changes only a few lines. So what? The guy pulled a "great" ROI with almost no effort. He provides a Chrome alternative that works as advertised, and that massively pisses-off 4 slashdotters. It's always the same story "he only changed a few lines in Chromium". Duh! That's the whole premise of Iron. Perhaps there would be less noise if he called it Chromium+ or Chromium For The Masses.
To avoid Google-tracking you can try Chromium, SRWare Iron and ChromePlus.
Again with the SRWare Iron hate? Does Iron deliver what it promises to deliver? Resounding yes. Is Iron code different from Chrome? Yes, only a few lines, but that was the deal: A Chrome mod stripped from the questionable parts. I read the logs and the history of Iron and I don't see the big scam. The guy created a product that works as advertised and, due to Germany's anti-Google stance, people there are more likely to go for a de-Googlefied Chrome, therefore _sometimes_ visiting SRWare's website to download it, maybe generating some bucks via adSense or by using some of the other products SRware offers. He was mainly after the good publicity –The guy who stripped Chrome from the bad parts. He got it. He delivered a product that works as promised. Where's the scam? Loads of money? Pics or it didn't happen. Malware. No. Spyware. No. Iron's code is free to download and examine by anyone with the skills to do so. Seriously, you guys presenting the IRC logs as evidence that Iron is a money-making scam should read them again. The fellow/s behind Iron created a Chromium mod that works just as advertised. The creators of ChromePlus did the same with their Chromium mod; the creator of PaleMoon and CometBird did the same with their Firefox mods. Iron's home page is full of nasty ads... Use an adblocker or download Chromium elsewhere. tl;dr: Iron works as advertised. No scam.
Mozilla is working on MSI packages for Firefox. If you have 1337 hax0r skills, try dropping by mozilla.bugzilla and help them.
Ahem. I mostly use Firefox but there is a Flashblock for Chrome. In fact, there are at least 2. The new version of AdBlock Plus for Chrome really blocks most of the adverts, not just hides them. There are also versions of Adblock Plus and FlashBlock for Opera. I'm pretty sure there's also FlashBlock for IE. tl;dr: There are working versions of FlashBlock and AdBlock Plus for all the major browsers.
I'm pretty sure they've at least tried.
There will be no 2013, remember? Nibiru, the Mayas, alignment of the Earth with the plane of the galaxy, the reptilians, the Illuminati, the Bilderberg group... 2012 will be the end of the world.
Firefox has known bugs regarding slowness when dealing with long pages. Some of these bugs have remained unsolved for years, perhaps because they mostly involve rare cases. Go to bugzilla.mozilla. Search for unresolved core bugs with "slow" in the summary. ???? Profit.
http://www.product-reviews.net/2010/05/11/mozilla-firefox-4-beta-video-presentation/ Towards the end of the presentation, if my ears don't deceive me Mr. Beltzner says that there won't be electrolysis until 2011. It seems that they are having many problems with that. You can still try it in the nightlies or in experimental builds, I think.
LOL. I tried SRWare Iron first, and I still like it, but ChromePlus has really nice built-in features. Version 1.4 for Windows should be released soon, based on Chrome 6, if I'm not mistaken. Anyway, more info on ChromePlus' site. Improve your browsing diet with metals.
OK. His intentions are recorded in the IRC log that everyone can, and should, check.
Did he deliver a product that works as advertised along the way? Yes, he did.
So he's evil because...? His actions are immoral because...? He broke the law when he...? And here's where I get lost. The product works "according to spec", it's not malware nor a defective product. People dig in (tinfoil-hatters and Germans, mainly). He gets some ad revenue, good publicity and some extra sales of his other products. That's evil because...? Delivering something that works and people like, getting some bucks along the way is bad because...? And let's not forget that Iron is freely available in literally dozens of freeware/FOSS sites and P2P networks that report exactly $0 to Iron's developer. Crap! This sites have their own adverts and get ad-revenue from offering his product. Gosh! The evil scheme to become a billionaire through ad-revenue had some flaws!
Iron's differences with Chrome even appear listed on Wikipedia. There's nothing to hide. Iron does what it promises to do. "Yeah, but you can do that with options and hacks and stuff". So what? The point of Iron is deliver a crap-free browser, with no Google ID, no RLZ, no GoogleUpdate.exe, etc. from the start. No need for any hacking, deleting, configuring. "Yeah, but you can't turn off some of the settings" - According to spec. Just as stated in Iron's site. If you wanted those options active you probably wouldn't be using Iron, in the first place.
I sense butthurt because this chap managed to get a decent ROI (not a millionaire yet) with a really simple idea and almost no coding at all. He delivered. Damn! This guy is so evil!
Again: Compare Iron's premise with other mods' (CometBird, ChromePlus, PaleMoon...): A more-or-less dead simple modification of a FOSS browser. Deliver some functionality which the original browser doesn't have. Get something in return: bucks, kudos, good PR. Pure evil.
I'll just focus on the following point:
You can install Iron and never visit SRWare's site again. Where is the shady money-making scheme driving users to SRWare's site?
Iron might take you to SRWare's site on first run. Duh! Like dozens of browsers do. Then you click the little X and that's it. You are free to browse whatever you want. IIRC, when you upgrade Iron it doesn't take you to its site again, only the very first time you install it.
Also: Iron does not install GoogleUpdate.exe. Some people don't mind about this fact, others take it as another positive feature over Chrome.
Protip: Compare Iron's "shady" behavior to those of ChromePlus, Palemoon or any other browser mod.
tl;dr: Iron does not drive users to its site.