Amen. Been using Classic Theme Restorer for so long I no longer recognize screenshots of Firefox when they come up in the inevitable twice-yearly "Firefox to get UI overhaul!" Slashdot article.
"Wrong" is harsh, I agree, but I do wonder about folks that have so many tabs open. Isn't that what bookmarks are for? You're obviously not flipping between 100+ pages in the course of a single/task/. How often do you look at the 99th least frequent of those tabs? Is that frequency worth the resource load of having the page loaded vs loading the page on demand? Is it genuinely faster to find a tiny little tab in a - presumably - rather squashed cluster of 100+ than it is to find a bookmark on a menu and have it load or am I envisioning what 100+ tabs looks like completely, heh, well, "wrong", because I don't do it myself?
Again, not saying "wrong" at all - just saying I'm one of those users that closes every tab after looking at the page. My average tab count over the course of a day's work is probably three - so having 100+ tabs just seems unfamiliar to me.
Also, you say it recently became difficult. That's in a particular browser? Any idea what changed?
I'd stop to post about how useful social network integration will be for my graphics driver's settings manager prog but I need to go visit the bike shop to buy some birthday presents for my koi.
I use Firefox and have been using Pocket (from a bookmarklet) for ages. So I guess that makes me one of the FF users that likes Pocket. However even I don't think it's in the slightest bit appropriate to integrate the service into the browser.
As it happens, I have my FF UI so heavily customized (menus and status bars forever, man) that I don't see any visible trace of Pocket and didn't know it had been added in this way until this article popped up.
Or maybe "like" is an term with no formal meaning here and I'm just "liking" page because that's what we call "bookmarks" on this particular website. Or "favorites", or "starred", or whatever. I might even be "liking" the page because I want to remember what a bunch of douchebags the associated outfit have been to me or my family in the past and want to keep an eye on their marketing babble so that I can warn friends/family not to be caught out by it.
When I "favorite" a website in Internet Explorer, nobody thinks it implies I commercially endorse whatever organization's page it was. Why should a "like" infer that.
Of course in practice I firewall Facebook at the router.
Can any automated tool measure these kinds of best practices?
No. The - for the sake of politeness, let's call them "people" - who invested time and effort into devising these schemes have actually built a complete chain of negative productivity by doing so. Remarkable.
Hehe, yeah. TBH I doubt they'll even be able to try that particular blag since TFA says that West Yorkshire Police are now actually selling their own forensic tool based on the allegedly stolen information.
However, interesting little suggestion in TFA is that there is a "quick access toolbar" which basically looks... like an Explorer toolbar. You can customize anything onto it you like. And you can minimize the Ribbon, folding down into something that looks... like a menu.
I agree that's the sensible sounding advice I've given many times over the years.
However, Mozilla removed the menu.
"Help" is no longer something clearly visible along a familiar menu bar. It's now an entry in the second column of a panel that comes pops down from the orange part of what many users will assume to simply be the title bar - not something interactive.
"Go to the orange Firefox button" you'll have to say, then "find help". I don't even know how to get to "About" any more in default Firefox and I've customized my interface back to what it used to look like, so I can no longer find out.
Unfortunately six of the plugins I rely on (yes, those plugins that are supposedly the #1 reason to use Firefox over less customizable browsers) don't yet even support Firefox 5. Everytime that "update Firefox" box comes up, I check, find six plugins outstanding, and back out of it.
Of course, not necessarily but if you want to trade high technology in the US, you obviously have to do a thorough cost:benefit analysis.
Benefit of US custom - Drain of constant legal battles over the fact you used a linked list, put files in a tree structure, let a portable device communicate with something, had a rectangle with a round corner... and so on.
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We live underground. We talk with our hands. We wear the earplugs all of our lives. Do not use the HomePod.
Remind me to disable Cortana
Amen. Been using Classic Theme Restorer for so long I no longer recognize screenshots of Firefox when they come up in the inevitable twice-yearly "Firefox to get UI overhaul!" Slashdot article.
Fascinating example use case, thanks!
"Wrong" is harsh, I agree, but I do wonder about folks that have so many tabs open. Isn't that what bookmarks are for? You're obviously not flipping between 100+ pages in the course of a single /task/. How often do you look at the 99th least frequent of those tabs? Is that frequency worth the resource load of having the page loaded vs loading the page on demand? Is it genuinely faster to find a tiny little tab in a - presumably - rather squashed cluster of 100+ than it is to find a bookmark on a menu and have it load or am I envisioning what 100+ tabs looks like completely, heh, well, "wrong", because I don't do it myself?
Again, not saying "wrong" at all - just saying I'm one of those users that closes every tab after looking at the page. My average tab count over the course of a day's work is probably three - so having 100+ tabs just seems unfamiliar to me.
Also, you say it recently became difficult. That's in a particular browser? Any idea what changed?
"Unicide" : when a website kills its own usability by failing to specify its character set correctly.
I'd stop to post about how useful social network integration will be for my graphics driver's settings manager prog but I need to go visit the bike shop to buy some birthday presents for my koi.
I use Firefox and have been using Pocket (from a bookmarklet) for ages. So I guess that makes me one of the FF users that likes Pocket. However even I don't think it's in the slightest bit appropriate to integrate the service into the browser.
As it happens, I have my FF UI so heavily customized (menus and status bars forever, man) that I don't see any visible trace of Pocket and didn't know it had been added in this way until this article popped up.
Or maybe "like" is an term with no formal meaning here and I'm just "liking" page because that's what we call "bookmarks" on this particular website. Or "favorites", or "starred", or whatever. I might even be "liking" the page because I want to remember what a bunch of douchebags the associated outfit have been to me or my family in the past and want to keep an eye on their marketing babble so that I can warn friends/family not to be caught out by it.
When I "favorite" a website in Internet Explorer, nobody thinks it implies I commercially endorse whatever organization's page it was. Why should a "like" infer that.
Of course in practice I firewall Facebook at the router.
I googled a definition of "lightweighted". It isn't a word.
WTG bronies.
Bring back the 1-April-2006 Slashdot theme to celebrate.
Entire Star Wars section added solely to gain publicity for the rest of the work.
Mission accomplished.
Amen to that.
Should there not be a "Video Content" topic flag and a corresponding filter option?
That can't be right. I used to use MySpace and it used to break all the time!
Could be time to switch back for the same reasons.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/macbook-air-chrome-16-firefox-9-benchmark,3108-18.html
It's not longer "do not evil", it's "let someone else do the evil for us!"
Easier != Better
Can any automated tool measure these kinds of best practices?
No. The - for the sake of politeness, let's call them "people" - who invested time and effort into devising these schemes have actually built a complete chain of negative productivity by doing so. Remarkable.
I hear being a card-carrying Lunar Republican will get you on the No Fly list.
Hehe, yeah. TBH I doubt they'll even be able to try that particular blag since TFA says that West Yorkshire Police are now actually selling their own forensic tool based on the allegedly stolen information.
Honestly, this should make you chuckle and smile and say "Wow!"
"Why" might be in there somewhere but if it's your first port of call, you're a lost cause - hand in your geek card.
The Ribbon is an abomination.
However, interesting little suggestion in TFA is that there is a "quick access toolbar" which basically looks... like an Explorer toolbar. You can customize anything onto it you like. And you can minimize the Ribbon, folding down into something that looks... like a menu.
So, it /may/ be survivable.
I agree that's the sensible sounding advice I've given many times over the years.
However, Mozilla removed the menu.
"Help" is no longer something clearly visible along a familiar menu bar. It's now an entry in the second column of a panel that comes pops down from the orange part of what many users will assume to simply be the title bar - not something interactive.
"Go to the orange Firefox button" you'll have to say, then "find help". I don't even know how to get to "About" any more in default Firefox and I've customized my interface back to what it used to look like, so I can no longer find out.
Unfortunately six of the plugins I rely on (yes, those plugins that are supposedly the #1 reason to use Firefox over less customizable browsers) don't yet even support Firefox 5. Everytime that "update Firefox" box comes up, I check, find six plugins outstanding, and back out of it.
Update too fast and you will leave users behind.
Of course, not necessarily but if you want to trade high technology in the US, you obviously have to do a thorough cost:benefit analysis.
Benefit of US custom - Drain of constant legal battles over the fact you used a linked list, put files in a tree structure, let a portable device communicate with something, had a rectangle with a round corner... and so on.