They don't automatically work on minor version releases either. Like with 3.6 came out and a bunch of my add-ons that were all fine and dandy with 3.5 suddenly "didn't work" because they weren't set to be compatible with 3.6. The only version number changes that don't affect add-ons are revision releases and those are only for security fixes and what not. So ultimately it doesn't matter what version number they give each new release if they keep using this brain dead add-on system of theirs and its only because of this that anyone really has any reason to bitch about version numbers as they don't really matter otherwise.
Others are reporting the same thing with just (what I consider) the essentials of Addblock, noscript.
There was a bug report from about a month or so ago where ABP and No Script running together caused a memory leak. No idea if that's been resolved yet (since I don't use No Script currently) but that might be what a lot of people are experiencing.
That's for their website and not the web itself and it largely varies based from website to website. In fact, Firefox usage has been on the rise on my own site, even over taking IE usage. Definitely looks like Firefox is dead and IE will continue to rule!
Except HTML5 continues to support to the XML serialization of HTML, so XHTML isn't necessarily dead. Which is nice because some of us actually prefer it over normal HTML.
Microsoft may not need to pay either, since as members they may get a free pass (just speculation on my part there).
Microsoft only gets a free pass on paying for their own patents in the pool. They still have to pay fees to every other company with a patent in the pool. They even spend more money paying such fees just to license for its use in Windows 7. So they aren't gaining much in doing this, money wise at least.
There's an option with the add-on to remove that close button. Its been awhile since I've really used Fx 3.x but I'm sure you can get it pretty close, if not entire, back to the old look by playing around with the options for it.
If you guys care so much then why not leave in an option to have everything that previous versions had to remain there as they were before? Not just the status bar but also the split home and refresh buttons and non-transparent menu and tab bars. The interface was just fine how it was before. If you want something different yourself then sure, go ahead and add options for it but don't assume your users want the same and force it on to them as well. We should have to be forced to use add-ons for this stuff either, especially considering how many times it been said that too many add-ons are the reason for the slowness and memory bloat problems the browser has.
Same here. Was using Firefox since it was Phoenix 0.x and all of these idiotic changes like the removal of the status bar disgusted me so much that it finally pushed me to try another browser. I might be called out as a troll on this too but what's wrong with sharing thoughts on a browser that I used to love to death? It saddens me that the devs feel they have to do things like this rather than fix the much more serious issues the browser has...
Granted on the plus side I can finally use a browser that properly frees up memory after closing a shit load (80+ tabs) at once. So I guess I could thank the thoughtless devs for that! [/troll]
Except its now in a bad spot, doesn't show as much of the URL as it could, blends in too much with the real address bar and most importantly... it doesn't show actual page statuses!
You mean putting what you're looking for in a completely different place than you've been used to for years all the while making it blend into something and shortening it down so it'll fit in such a horrible design?
There's also the complete lack of saying what the browser's doing. When it sits there twiddling its thumbs it'd be nice to know what's holding it up but nope, they seem to feel they we don't care about such a thing!
Meanwhile I have to tell everyone that has a Hotmail account that I email something to through my custom domain to check their spam folder because it feels anything from that domain is spam. I've run into this problem with other people sending emails through their custom domains too. Nice to see that their spam system is working as intended!
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Funny how you know when the new expansion is coming out when Blizz doesn't even know that. Hell, they don't even know when the beta's gonna start.
Blizz never states release dates until practically the last minute.
They don't automatically work on minor version releases either. Like with 3.6 came out and a bunch of my add-ons that were all fine and dandy with 3.5 suddenly "didn't work" because they weren't set to be compatible with 3.6. The only version number changes that don't affect add-ons are revision releases and those are only for security fixes and what not. So ultimately it doesn't matter what version number they give each new release if they keep using this brain dead add-on system of theirs and its only because of this that anyone really has any reason to bitch about version numbers as they don't really matter otherwise.
Others are reporting the same thing with just (what I consider) the essentials of Addblock, noscript.
There was a bug report from about a month or so ago where ABP and No Script running together caused a memory leak. No idea if that's been resolved yet (since I don't use No Script currently) but that might be what a lot of people are experiencing.
w3schools gives FF slowly declining since 2009 (it peaked July 2009): http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
That's for their website and not the web itself and it largely varies based from website to website. In fact, Firefox usage has been on the rise on my own site, even over taking IE usage. Definitely looks like Firefox is dead and IE will continue to rule!
For me its...
Chrome 10: 58 FPS
Chrome 12: 60 FPS
Firefox 4: 93 FPS
IE 9: 306 FPS
Opera 11.5 dev: 420 FPS
I'd say Opera is clearly the winner! (Not that it'll make actually use it or anything...)
Except HTML5 continues to support to the XML serialization of HTML, so XHTML isn't necessarily dead. Which is nice because some of us actually prefer it over normal HTML.
After all, Microsoft is a member of the H.264 Licensors. They stand to profit by the continued adoption of H.264.
Microsoft may not need to pay either, since as members they may get a free pass (just speculation on my part there).
Microsoft only gets a free pass on paying for their own patents in the pool. They still have to pay fees to every other company with a patent in the pool. They even spend more money paying such fees just to license for its use in Windows 7. So they aren't gaining much in doing this, money wise at least.
There's an option with the add-on to remove that close button. Its been awhile since I've really used Fx 3.x but I'm sure you can get it pretty close, if not entire, back to the old look by playing around with the options for it.
If you guys care so much then why not leave in an option to have everything that previous versions had to remain there as they were before? Not just the status bar but also the split home and refresh buttons and non-transparent menu and tab bars. The interface was just fine how it was before. If you want something different yourself then sure, go ahead and add options for it but don't assume your users want the same and force it on to them as well. We should have to be forced to use add-ons for this stuff either, especially considering how many times it been said that too many add-ons are the reason for the slowness and memory bloat problems the browser has.
Same here. Was using Firefox since it was Phoenix 0.x and all of these idiotic changes like the removal of the status bar disgusted me so much that it finally pushed me to try another browser. I might be called out as a troll on this too but what's wrong with sharing thoughts on a browser that I used to love to death? It saddens me that the devs feel they have to do things like this rather than fix the much more serious issues the browser has...
Granted on the plus side I can finally use a browser that properly frees up memory after closing a shit load (80+ tabs) at once. So I guess I could thank the thoughtless devs for that! [/troll]
Except its now in a bad spot, doesn't show as much of the URL as it could, blends in too much with the real address bar and most importantly... it doesn't show actual page statuses!
You mean putting what you're looking for in a completely different place than you've been used to for years all the while making it blend into something and shortening it down so it'll fit in such a horrible design? There's also the complete lack of saying what the browser's doing. When it sits there twiddling its thumbs it'd be nice to know what's holding it up but nope, they seem to feel they we don't care about such a thing!
People will not be happy when bunches of websites stop working for them because they are using chrome.
You make it sound like most of the web uses the video tag already. Last I checked, that wasn't the case nor would most of the web ever use it.
Meanwhile I have to tell everyone that has a Hotmail account that I email something to through my custom domain to check their spam folder because it feels anything from that domain is spam. I've run into this problem with other people sending emails through their custom domains too. Nice to see that their spam system is working as intended!