The relatively new Vivaldi browser (an Opera fork) is even faster.
It is still missing couple of features - I'd make it my default browser if it supported settings sync.
Once its there I think its a winner.
Right clicking anything brings up EVERY option for the context menu. I'm seeing items like "Play", "Pause", "Mute", "Email Audio, "Email Video", etc, even right clicking on plain HTML pages.
It's like people have forgotten that they can actually poke around and figure things out for themselves. If it's not readily apparent, they assume it can't be done.
I think you got it wrong. The software should adjust to its users not the other way round.
Even if you think that your users are lazy and not willing to invest few minutes of their time to learn the new great features you have for them then you should try to force yourself to listen to them.
Because, well, otherwise they will just stop being interested in you at all.
Well, in the end there will be an adjustment and Mozilla will have the sort of users it wants - somewhere around 5-10% market share would be my guess.
I think what he means as I was frustrated by it too.
So I want to go to say www.google.com or google analytics etc. As I type google the first hundred suggestion will be some articles I red via google reader during past few years.
You rather be careful, not sure if Mozilla people have any sense of irony. They could take it as inspiration. "Outdated back button" is going away soon (version 26).
It's ironic that a poster child of the right wing - free trade - has done more for re-distribution of wealth from rich to poor counties than all the socialist ideals put together.
It's not that much ironic as it redistributed wealth from the lower classes in the west.
During the last 30 years real wages for middle and lower income workers stagnated. But the top 1% are making much more.
Right, and it's much easier to do so when you control a huge percentage of the mobile space. Again, my post was wondering if Apple would be able to resist that temptation.
Well, in the past they did not accept into their store apps that offered alternative to they own products and services.
In the early days of its App Store, Apple rejected two Google applications - Voice and Latitude.
The company said that, in the case of Voice, it replicated one of the iPhone's core functions - something which broke the App Store's terms of use.
Apple's rules were later relaxed, following an investigation by the US Federal Communications Commission.
Microsoft was a bland bureaucracy that produced the worst sort of bloated corporate junkware. They were monopolistic pigs with contemptible table manners (think Ballmer here).
Do you seriously want to broaden MS critisism to Ballmers table manners? Somewhat weird on Slashdot;)
Does anybody else have a problem with FF5 displaying pages in upsized font randomly? And sometimes it displays pages as without css styles applied. Also seemingly randomly.
So they have caught up with Firefox having the fonts messed up. One has to manually set gfx.direct2d to false in config editor to have readable fonts (at least on Windows).
Unless you live in a major metro area, the chances of you having wired phone access would be even lower than your chances of cell access if it hadn't been for the government putting down the cash to install a phone network.
Exactly. Moreover the "small goverment argument" doesn't apply in this case. Municipalities cannot be considered goverment. Small communities are the main loosers not big cities like Philadelphia.
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There is not enough emacs users for such survey to be statistically significant.
I'm stuck with FF, because of tree style tabs.
The relatively new Vivaldi browser (an Opera fork) is even faster. It is still missing couple of features - I'd make it my default browser if it supported settings sync. Once its there I think its a winner.
"Similar number of daily launches as Edge and Internet Explorer." Well, if that is so, then cmd really is dying...
Right clicking anything brings up EVERY option for the context menu. I'm seeing items like "Play", "Pause", "Mute", "Email Audio, "Email Video", etc, even right clicking on plain HTML pages.
It's like people have forgotten that they can actually poke around and figure things out for themselves. If it's not readily apparent, they assume it can't be done.
I think you got it wrong. The software should adjust to its users not the other way round. Even if you think that your users are lazy and not willing to invest few minutes of their time to learn the new great features you have for them then you should try to force yourself to listen to them. Because, well, otherwise they will just stop being interested in you at all. Well, in the end there will be an adjustment and Mozilla will have the sort of users it wants - somewhere around 5-10% market share would be my guess.
I think what he means as I was frustrated by it too. So I want to go to say www.google.com or google analytics etc. As I type google the first hundred suggestion will be some articles I red via google reader during past few years.
You rather be careful, not sure if Mozilla people have any sense of irony. They could take it as inspiration. "Outdated back button" is going away soon (version 26).
It's ironic that a poster child of the right wing - free trade - has done more for re-distribution of wealth from rich to poor counties than all the socialist ideals put together.
It's not that much ironic as it redistributed wealth from the lower classes in the west. During the last 30 years real wages for middle and lower income workers stagnated. But the top 1% are making much more.
Yes but let's assume we aren't asking the question for the 0.00001% of humanity with no interest in being a part of society.
He was writing for the slashdotters, not humanity
Well, they can always "Ask Slashdot". There seems to be a lot of experts (at least on what MS should/should not do).
Right, and it's much easier to do so when you control a huge percentage of the mobile space. Again, my post was wondering if Apple would be able to resist that temptation.
Well, in the past they did not accept into their store apps that offered alternative to they own products and services.
In the early days of its App Store, Apple rejected two Google applications - Voice and Latitude.
The company said that, in the case of Voice, it replicated one of the iPhone's core functions - something which broke the App Store's terms of use.
Apple's rules were later relaxed, following an investigation by the US Federal Communications Commission.
Source http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14027466
It could be related to NoScript since I don't see the permanent spinner when using Opera.
Yes, if I do "Allow all of this page" the spinner goes away
Microsoft was a bland bureaucracy that produced the worst sort of bloated corporate junkware. They were monopolistic pigs with contemptible table manners (think Ballmer here).
Do you seriously want to broaden MS critisism to Ballmers table manners? Somewhat weird on Slashdot ;)
> Upsized font - are you using a trackpad (e.g. on a laptop) and you happen to be holding the control key when the font blows up?
Nope. It's just started to happen with FF5. For example: You start FF - the page loads with larger fonts. You restart and it displays normally.
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/843109
Taking the opportunity to whine about Firefox.
Does anybody else have a problem with FF5 displaying pages in upsized font randomly? And sometimes it displays pages as without css styles applied. Also seemingly randomly.
> The __only__ positive thing about IE is that they have gotten better at supporting web standards.
But is is a pretty important one, no?
So they have caught up with Firefox having the fonts messed up. One has to manually set gfx.direct2d to false in config editor to have readable fonts (at least on Windows).
The whole Mozilla suite seems to go downhill.
It should be promoted as Swimming in Organic Water.
That would attract thousands
You. Are. Right.
He could also help to find out Mersenne Primes :)
3. Not enough people there to make it lucrative even if all want it. There could have been municipal network set up.
Just an example. It just doesn't make a sense to forbid such a scenario by law.
This is not government versus private. Municipalities are not government. What about small communities that are not lucrative market for Verizon etc?
Unless you live in a major metro area, the chances of you having wired phone access would be even lower than your chances of cell access if it hadn't been for the government putting down the cash to install a phone network.
Exactly. Moreover the "small goverment argument" doesn't apply in this case. Municipalities cannot be considered goverment. Small communities are the main loosers not big cities like Philadelphia.