No, I'm not. What's wrong with it? It works just fine for me. If you hate the Awesomebar, then yes, I suppose it probably does suck.
1) Er...why would an average computer user need to export bookmarks *ever*? I would think the vast majority of computer users (read: not Slashdot readers) have a single-boot Windows XP/Vista with a single browser that they use. So why would they need to export bookmarks to begin with? Slashdot readers, yeah maybe. I copy all my bookmarks to Firefox whenever I install a new copy of Linux on my machine, but that's only once every several months.
2) Are you referring to the "Add-ons" option under the Tools menu or addons.mozilla.org? Because a.m.o has categories on the left side. Maybe they don't have "all addons alphabetically" but that's not really going to help anyone anyway...
3) Sadly, yes, you're correct. The average consumer falls for the dopiest ads, apparently.
4) How so? I've been using Firefox since like 2.0.6 or something and they added a whole bunch of options to it in 3.5: Clear last X hours, today, this week, etc. They've given us *more* control as far as I can tell. And it actually gives you all the options when you Ctrl+Shift+Del, you don't even have to dig in a menu for it. How is it less user friendly? Should they just clear stuff without telling you what it is that's being deleted? Because you can get that same effect by just hitting Enter without looking at the popup box.
Agreed about the privacy thing. I don't even have a Google account because Gmail doesn't interest me, but more importantly, I don't *want* them to try to tailor their search to fit me specifically. For one, I want the results to be the same every time so I don't do the same search twice and the result I want moved so I have to find it again or something. And second, I don't know how good their predictive algorithms are, but it's like driving a car: I find driving a manual transmission more "fun" sometimes because you're more in control, you don't have to ease off when you're headed up an on ramp and the engine is still roaring in 2nd gear at 45mph because you've had your foot down steady for the last 15 seconds:-)
"Firefox needs to have these features!
Firefox rocks because it has these features (addons)! Firefox should fix this! Firefox should inform us about J Random Privacy Threat That Everybody Already Knows About!"
I'm trying to tell where this is going...
1) Firefox does let you export bookmarks. Granted, it exports all of them, but how hard can it be to crack open the HTML file and strip out the ones you don't want to send?
2) "Not being a jerk about extensions"? In what way? Just go to the web page and look around, it's not like the add-ons window is the only place you can get them.
3) "Letting the world know"? Am I being wooshed? You're saying they should beat their own chests? Maybe run some cocky TV commercials that says FF is cool and provide no actual info to back it up?
4) "give users control to wipe things clean": it's still there. Or just tap Ctrl+Shift+Del before you exit.
5) "SOB web collectors": who isn't these days? Personally, I'm tired of being warned that every food I can possibly eat is decreasing my life expectancy in some way.
1. If it makes money and it's legal, do it. Quickly.
2. If it makes money and it's illegal, but no one will catch you, do it. Quietly.
3. If it would make money but is illegal, and everyone would notice if you tried it, buy off people to change the law.
If in most every other e-something, the E stands for Electronic, it's just annoying to use it to stand for Electric here. It's like how homophobia is an alarmist umbrella term for anyone who disapproves of homosexuals for any reason, while every other phobia only describes an irrational fear. From Wikipedia:
Phobia: "an intense and persistent fear of certain situations, activities, things, animals, or people" Homophobia: "a range of negative attitudes and feelings towards homosexuality and people identified or perceived as being homosexual. Definitions[1][2][3] of the term refer variably to antipathy, contempt, prejudice, aversion, and (irrational) fear"
Yeah, I do that a lot too. What would be kind of cool is if there was an (opt-in) option where you can set FF to notify you when it hits a certain RAM usage and ask if you want to restart it. But that would involve the devs admitting there actually is a problem...
I use Yahoo! Mail. I must be an old fogie or something because I actually like folders rather than the Gmail filter things. I actually tried Gmail for a couple weeks a few years back, but the filter approach and a couple other things drove me away.
Back when Gmail was first getting started, it offered... what, a gigabyte of storage? or was it two gigabytes? Hotmail, on the other hand, was offering a measly two megabytes. It also allowed much larger attachments. Reason enough to switch right there. Don’t think I’m stuck in the past, though. I can keep going.
Maybe originally, yes. But now they're all up to 2GB+. I think Yahoo! or somebody offers "unlimited" inbox if you've been a member long enough but of course that's not really true if you actually try to use it. And it's not like I need to keep every message I've ever received...
The spam filtering alone is reason enough to switch. Hotmail’s spam filtering is pitiful. Gmail’s is nearly bulletproof.
In the last 7 years I can probably count the number of spam emails that I've seen in my Yahoo inbox on the fingers of one hand. For some reason; who knows.
Nice, non-animated, non-blinking, non-colourful, generally non-irritating advertisements... compared to Hotmail’s, which exhibit in every way the polar opposites of all those qualities. Sure, Gmail’s ads are targeted based on trigger words in the e-mail I’m reading, but even so it’s not like an actual person at Gmail is reading my messages.
AdBlock.
Gmail is fast. Fast load. Fast message opening. Fast search (from Google? who’da thunkit?). Fast just about everything. Since the whole application loads at the outset, all it has to fetch to open a message or display your inbox (or any other label) is just the data that it needs to load. All done by Ajax, all very fast. The only thing that takes any considerable amount of time is loading the whole thing to begin with, and even that is relatively quick if you consider all the time it saves in the long run. Vs. Hotmail, which loads an entire new entire page, complete with rich advertisements, virtually every time you click anything.
Point conceded. But I'm not one of those people who needs everything this exact nanosecond, I can wait up to 2 whole seconds for a message:)
TC isn't really portable. I mean, yes, the program itself can be installed portably, but you still need admin permission to install the driver to make it actually work.
Was it really necessary to reproduce the entire scene verbatim? Most Slashdotters would probably know what you were referring to if you had just left it at the first line. And you made me skim the whole thing to see if you had actually changed anything.
Why do you assume that it's limited to this solar system? Just because nobody is going to be living in the Proxima Centauri system, which may not even have any habitable planets, in the foreseeable future doesn't mean they're not trying to make a system that could transmit that far, regardless of how implausible it sounds.
If they're going to fail, they might as well fail epicly, right?:-)
Did you miss the article about the "Great Firewall" blocking all non-locally-approved websites? I wouldn't care so much about people simply viewing porn on foreign sites if it's not possible to without resorting to evasive measures, which a good chunk of people will never bother to use.
Just because someone is a politician doesn't mean people respect them. As evidence, I call on the 4 articles on the front page here every day denouncing some boneheaded law that is under consideration.
And yes, before you say it, I know Slashdot does not have one unified opinion, it's a collection of a bazillion individuals, blah blah blah...
Slashdot Mirror
Wow, that was a really long way of saying "an alien is anyone from a different region than the one they're currently in."
No, I'm not. What's wrong with it? It works just fine for me. If you hate the Awesomebar, then yes, I suppose it probably does suck.
1) Er...why would an average computer user need to export bookmarks *ever*? I would think the vast majority of computer users (read: not Slashdot readers) have a single-boot Windows XP/Vista with a single browser that they use. So why would they need to export bookmarks to begin with? Slashdot readers, yeah maybe. I copy all my bookmarks to Firefox whenever I install a new copy of Linux on my machine, but that's only once every several months.
2) Are you referring to the "Add-ons" option under the Tools menu or addons.mozilla.org? Because a.m.o has categories on the left side. Maybe they don't have "all addons alphabetically" but that's not really going to help anyone anyway...
3) Sadly, yes, you're correct. The average consumer falls for the dopiest ads, apparently.
4) How so? I've been using Firefox since like 2.0.6 or something and they added a whole bunch of options to it in 3.5: Clear last X hours, today, this week, etc. They've given us *more* control as far as I can tell. And it actually gives you all the options when you Ctrl+Shift+Del, you don't even have to dig in a menu for it. How is it less user friendly? Should they just clear stuff without telling you what it is that's being deleted? Because you can get that same effect by just hitting Enter without looking at the popup box.
Agreed about the privacy thing. I don't even have a Google account because Gmail doesn't interest me, but more importantly, I don't *want* them to try to tailor their search to fit me specifically. For one, I want the results to be the same every time so I don't do the same search twice and the result I want moved so I have to find it again or something. And second, I don't know how good their predictive algorithms are, but it's like driving a car: I find driving a manual transmission more "fun" sometimes because you're more in control, you don't have to ease off when you're headed up an on ramp and the engine is still roaring in 2nd gear at 45mph because you've had your foot down steady for the last 15 seconds :-)
"Firefox needs to have these features!
Firefox rocks because it has these features (addons)!
Firefox should fix this!
Firefox should inform us about J Random Privacy Threat That Everybody Already Knows About!"
I'm trying to tell where this is going...
1) Firefox does let you export bookmarks. Granted, it exports all of them, but how hard can it be to crack open the HTML file and strip out the ones you don't want to send?
2) "Not being a jerk about extensions"? In what way? Just go to the web page and look around, it's not like the add-ons window is the only place you can get them.
3) "Letting the world know"? Am I being wooshed? You're saying they should beat their own chests? Maybe run some cocky TV commercials that says FF is cool and provide no actual info to back it up?
4) "give users control to wipe things clean": it's still there. Or just tap Ctrl+Shift+Del before you exit.
5) "SOB web collectors": who isn't these days? Personally, I'm tired of being warned that every food I can possibly eat is decreasing my life expectancy in some way.
Only 32 minutes seems a bit premature...
I'm confused..."tack taken by" or "tactic used by"? What's a tact? Or am I being wooshed?
Thank you.
1. If it makes money and it's legal, do it. Quickly.
2. If it makes money and it's illegal, but no one will catch you, do it. Quietly.
3. If it would make money but is illegal, and everyone would notice if you tried it, buy off people to change the law.
If in most every other e-something, the E stands for Electronic, it's just annoying to use it to stand for Electric here. It's like how homophobia is an alarmist umbrella term for anyone who disapproves of homosexuals for any reason, while every other phobia only describes an irrational fear. From Wikipedia:
Phobia: "an intense and persistent fear of certain situations, activities, things, animals, or people"
Homophobia: "a range of negative attitudes and feelings towards homosexuality and people identified or perceived as being homosexual. Definitions[1][2][3] of the term refer variably to antipathy, contempt, prejudice, aversion, and (irrational) fear"
Plugins.
Yeah, I do that a lot too. What would be kind of cool is if there was an (opt-in) option where you can set FF to notify you when it hits a certain RAM usage and ask if you want to restart it. But that would involve the devs admitting there actually is a problem...
It's all in your head. It's Microsoft's fault. This is not the RAM you are looking for...
I use Yahoo! Mail. I must be an old fogie or something because I actually like folders rather than the Gmail filter things. I actually tried Gmail for a couple weeks a few years back, but the filter approach and a couple other things drove me away.
Back when Gmail was first getting started, it offered ... what, a gigabyte of storage? or was it two gigabytes? Hotmail, on the other hand, was offering a measly two megabytes. It also allowed much larger attachments. Reason enough to switch right there. Don’t think I’m stuck in the past, though. I can keep going.
Maybe originally, yes. But now they're all up to 2GB+. I think Yahoo! or somebody offers "unlimited" inbox if you've been a member long enough but of course that's not really true if you actually try to use it. And it's not like I need to keep every message I've ever received...
The spam filtering alone is reason enough to switch. Hotmail’s spam filtering is pitiful. Gmail’s is nearly bulletproof.
In the last 7 years I can probably count the number of spam emails that I've seen in my Yahoo inbox on the fingers of one hand. For some reason; who knows.
Nice, non-animated, non-blinking, non-colourful, generally non-irritating advertisements... compared to Hotmail’s, which exhibit in every way the polar opposites of all those qualities. Sure, Gmail’s ads are targeted based on trigger words in the e-mail I’m reading, but even so it’s not like an actual person at Gmail is reading my messages.
AdBlock.
Gmail is fast. Fast load. Fast message opening. Fast search (from Google? who’da thunkit?). Fast just about everything. Since the whole application loads at the outset, all it has to fetch to open a message or display your inbox (or any other label) is just the data that it needs to load. All done by Ajax, all very fast. The only thing that takes any considerable amount of time is loading the whole thing to begin with, and even that is relatively quick if you consider all the time it saves in the long run. Vs. Hotmail, which loads an entire new entire page, complete with rich advertisements, virtually every time you click anything.
Point conceded. But I'm not one of those people who needs everything this exact nanosecond, I can wait up to 2 whole seconds for a message :)
So why is Gmail "better"? Any actual reasons?
or Heroes
What exactly was so bad about the Matrix sequels? I don't think I've heard anyone actually say.
And this is "not trusting the computer" how?
TC isn't really portable. I mean, yes, the program itself can be installed portably, but you still need admin permission to install the driver to make it actually work.
A gift that will never exist lasts forever? How's that work?
Was it really necessary to reproduce the entire scene verbatim? Most Slashdotters would probably know what you were referring to if you had just left it at the first line. And you made me skim the whole thing to see if you had actually changed anything.
Why do you assume that it's limited to this solar system? Just because nobody is going to be living in the Proxima Centauri system, which may not even have any habitable planets, in the foreseeable future doesn't mean they're not trying to make a system that could transmit that far, regardless of how implausible it sounds.
:-)
If they're going to fail, they might as well fail epicly, right?
...breeder reactors?
And Canada's Commonwealth so the Brits might get just a little pissed off...and NATO and all...
Did you miss the article about the "Great Firewall" blocking all non-locally-approved websites? I wouldn't care so much about people simply viewing porn on foreign sites if it's not possible to without resorting to evasive measures, which a good chunk of people will never bother to use.
Just because someone is a politician doesn't mean people respect them. As evidence, I call on the 4 articles on the front page here every day denouncing some boneheaded law that is under consideration.
And yes, before you say it, I know Slashdot does not have one unified opinion, it's a collection of a bazillion individuals, blah blah blah...
He must be new around here...