This is probably what I will end up with too. Switching to any Firefox fork is still worrying for me. Websites often don't test with those minority browsers so I will risk sites breaking if I switch and they can't keep up with the latest HTML/Javascript tech. Although I will miss Classic Theme Restorer, and some other old classic extensions. Curse you Google. My conspiracy theory is Google funded Mozilla so that Firefox can be crippled. There is no technical reason why they can't expose the full feature set Classic Theme Restorer want in WebExtension
True only if "webextension" keep enough functions of old firefox extensions capabilities.
And there's only and handful of extensions that don't work with webextensions. But no doubt someone will mention {insert favourite non-webextension here} as if to make a counterpoint. But then it's quite telling the number of people who complain about webextensions and then say they will move to a platform where that is actually the plugin API in use.
You missed those saying they will keep staying in the old version Fx until websites no longer viewable on them. And those that moving to Chrome prove my point: when you lose feature and try to compete in speed and speed only, why not users move to Chrome which is already faster?
Stop removing features and start fixing the bugs and improving performance
Funny that's exactly what they are doing. Part of the reason of switching to webextensions is to get a massive performance boost while at the same time limiting the damage that plugins cause such as lockups and memory leaks.
True only if "webextension" keep enough functions of old firefox extensions capabilities. Remove features so that a program can be fast? Anyone who want a Chrome-like experience can use and have used Chrome. Firefox will always lose in long term the "performance game", as Google Chrome have more money and manpower behind.
Not economic until space travel is cheap enough for us to dig and trap a 1/6 G swimming pool there and sell tickets for that. https://what-if.xkcd.com/124/
Mozilla actively refuse to provide same or similar feature to key extensions like classic theme restorer, or session manager, or anything that makes Firefox truly uniquely more powerful and customizable than Chrome. And you call it "a better frame work"? I heard they won't even let extensions touch settings in about:config anymore!
If you Firefox developers want to overhaul the UI again, go do it. It's not the first time and I was expecting classic theme restorer to save the mess when I don't like some part of their change. If you want to overhaul the underlying code and make some popular extensions break temporarily, go do it and I can wait my favourite extensions to pick up and update. But now, no more. There is no excuse to restrict Firefox extensions proactively like the current plan unless they are all drugged and trojaned by Google.
Yeah, most phishing attack aren't even through MITM attack or eavesdropping, but social engineering. Companies should make sure their website name is stable and consistent, not branching into so many domains. If each company use the same domain for every web pages they have, then phishing attack would have been a lot more difficult already, as users can immediate recognize a cheap fake site, while those do MITM can be arrested as they leave more criminal evidence.
But no, first multi-national companies use one domain per countries, then company local branch use one domain per product or service or the latest seasonal promotion, and so on and so on.
Personal experience: Installing Win7 on Ryzen is as easy as installing on Skylake. Windows Update will block you after you installed the latest rollup so you need to download cracks for that but everything else works okay. All these assume you install from DVD to an SATA drive of course.
ReactOS is still struggling on their way to XP/2003 compatibility. Meanwhile what we need is something that can handle Win10-driver-only hardware. Old computers already had their WinXP installed ages ago.
These kind of examples are for chess engines before the "deep learning" neural net era which AlphaGo opened our eyes. They are also just "bugs" like human players sometimes also have blindspots and make low level mistakes obvious to bystanders. Totally fixable.
Also sounds like the grandparent post don't know it is AlphaGo itself that is introducing a lot of unconventional style and stir the Go-water. Ke Jie studied those games, learnt from them, and fail to beat it one year after Lee Sedol's matches, as the engine developers also learn from the one single game Lee Sedol beat AlphaGo. Bug has been fixed.
Before komi become the norm for professional game play, black openings are more conservative and white are more agressive. Slight komi adjustment may not affect amateurs like me, but for super-precise AI like AlphaGo, winning just half point the last game, komi adjustment will definitely affect how the AI treat the open game.
I remember they chose the komi such that Chinese and Japanese scoring system won't disagree who win the game. So I guess it is extremely unlikely for them to do experiment on micro komi adjustment. We don't even know if AlphaGo is komi flexible or requires complete retraining for that.
Yeah, I imagine Microsoft will just find a tons of unpatched Windows 7 machines on the net because of such move. One of the major reasons people don't go Windows 10 is its intrusive windows update system. Those insisting on Windows 7 even in new hardware don't really care keeping the OS 100% security-updated anyway.
So Microsoft expect everyone buy a server license, just because he or she wants the PC do some overnight batch job? Or even worse, just because he or she got busy and worked overnight one day?
Apps / applets for functionality? They are killing "feature-phone" (read: non-android/apple phone) with app functionality. The whatsapp installed in my lovely nokia 301 nagged me all the time last year that it will go out of support. *Luckily* its earpiece has been broken already (relying headset/loudspeaker) so buying a replacing "smart" phone is not too heart-breaking.
Talking of modernization, I wonder if they will add 3G network connectivity, as 2G mobile network is on the edge of phasing-out. (Asking 4G VoLTE is too much so I won't)
I heard that car batteries for hybrid/electronic vehicles could be very high voltage. So car companies go the better-safe-than-sorry route. They can't afford someone got over-confident and killed themselves.
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This is probably what I will end up with too. Switching to any Firefox fork is still worrying for me. Websites often don't test with those minority browsers so I will risk sites breaking if I switch and they can't keep up with the latest HTML/Javascript tech. Although I will miss Classic Theme Restorer, and some other old classic extensions. Curse you Google. My conspiracy theory is Google funded Mozilla so that Firefox can be crippled. There is no technical reason why they can't expose the full feature set Classic Theme Restorer want in WebExtension
10 watts may be a minor issue for PC, but what about mobile devices? I do care the battery life.
Those high capacity HDDs are currently helium filled. With MAMR, one day they won't need to. Then they will drop prices.
True only if "webextension" keep enough functions of old firefox extensions capabilities.
And there's only and handful of extensions that don't work with webextensions. But no doubt someone will mention {insert favourite non-webextension here} as if to make a counterpoint. But then it's quite telling the number of people who complain about webextensions and then say they will move to a platform where that is actually the plugin API in use.
You missed those saying they will keep staying in the old version Fx until websites no longer viewable on them. And those that moving to Chrome prove my point: when you lose feature and try to compete in speed and speed only, why not users move to Chrome which is already faster?
Stop removing features and start fixing the bugs and improving performance
Funny that's exactly what they are doing. Part of the reason of switching to webextensions is to get a massive performance boost while at the same time limiting the damage that plugins cause such as lockups and memory leaks.
True only if "webextension" keep enough functions of old firefox extensions capabilities. Remove features so that a program can be fast? Anyone who want a Chrome-like experience can use and have used Chrome. Firefox will always lose in long term the "performance game", as Google Chrome have more money and manpower behind.
Agree. Somebody mod parent up. Speaking with me using the search field autocomplete for a tiny handy calculator
Not economic until space travel is cheap enough for us to dig and trap a 1/6 G swimming pool there and sell tickets for that. https://what-if.xkcd.com/124/
Mozilla actively refuse to provide same or similar feature to key extensions like classic theme restorer, or session manager, or anything that makes Firefox truly uniquely more powerful and customizable than Chrome. And you call it "a better frame work"? I heard they won't even let extensions touch settings in about:config anymore!
If you Firefox developers want to overhaul the UI again, go do it. It's not the first time and I was expecting classic theme restorer to save the mess when I don't like some part of their change. If you want to overhaul the underlying code and make some popular extensions break temporarily, go do it and I can wait my favourite extensions to pick up and update. But now, no more. There is no excuse to restrict Firefox extensions proactively like the current plan unless they are all drugged and trojaned by Google.
Yeah, most phishing attack aren't even through MITM attack or eavesdropping, but social engineering. Companies should make sure their website name is stable and consistent, not branching into so many domains. If each company use the same domain for every web pages they have, then phishing attack would have been a lot more difficult already, as users can immediate recognize a cheap fake site, while those do MITM can be arrested as they leave more criminal evidence.
But no, first multi-national companies use one domain per countries, then company local branch use one domain per product or service or the latest seasonal promotion, and so on and so on.
Personal experience: Installing Win7 on Ryzen is as easy as installing on Skylake. Windows Update will block you after you installed the latest rollup so you need to download cracks for that but everything else works okay. All these assume you install from DVD to an SATA drive of course.
ReactOS is still struggling on their way to XP/2003 compatibility. Meanwhile what we need is something that can handle Win10-driver-only hardware. Old computers already had their WinXP installed ages ago.
These kind of examples are for chess engines before the "deep learning" neural net era which AlphaGo opened our eyes. They are also just "bugs" like human players sometimes also have blindspots and make low level mistakes obvious to bystanders. Totally fixable.
Also sounds like the grandparent post don't know it is AlphaGo itself that is introducing a lot of unconventional style and stir the Go-water. Ke Jie studied those games, learnt from them, and fail to beat it one year after Lee Sedol's matches, as the engine developers also learn from the one single game Lee Sedol beat AlphaGo. Bug has been fixed.
Komi does not influence how you play the game.
Of course it influences how one play.
Before komi become the norm for professional game play, black openings are more conservative and white are more agressive. Slight komi adjustment may not affect amateurs like me, but for super-precise AI like AlphaGo, winning just half point the last game, komi adjustment will definitely affect how the AI treat the open game.
The engine improvement is after the 5-days matches with Lee Sedol, not in between.
I remember they chose the komi such that Chinese and Japanese scoring system won't disagree who win the game. So I guess it is extremely unlikely for them to do experiment on micro komi adjustment. We don't even know if AlphaGo is komi flexible or requires complete retraining for that.
Yeah, I imagine Microsoft will just find a tons of unpatched Windows 7 machines on the net because of such move. One of the major reasons people don't go Windows 10 is its intrusive windows update system. Those insisting on Windows 7 even in new hardware don't really care keeping the OS 100% security-updated anyway.
So Microsoft expect everyone buy a server license, just because he or she wants the PC do some overnight batch job? Or even worse, just because he or she got busy and worked overnight one day?
Apps / applets for functionality? They are killing "feature-phone" (read: non-android/apple phone) with app functionality. The whatsapp installed in my lovely nokia 301 nagged me all the time last year that it will go out of support. *Luckily* its earpiece has been broken already (relying headset/loudspeaker) so buying a replacing "smart" phone is not too heart-breaking.
Talking of modernization, I wonder if they will add 3G network connectivity, as 2G mobile network is on the edge of phasing-out. (Asking 4G VoLTE is too much so I won't)
Before your beloved so-called task bar pinning, we had... quick launch bar.
How can I "show it to friends" if posting on the internet is considered a publishing act already?
Maybe your little email server is old enough to escape the now-current hostility?
We can build a swimming pool there! And it will be fun! See here.
I heard that car batteries for hybrid/electronic vehicles could be very high voltage. So car companies go the better-safe-than-sorry route. They can't afford someone got over-confident and killed themselves.
Don't let these two guys ANYWHERE near your Jeep and they can't install their shit.
Sorry, but they don't need to