Firefox 52 has been EOLed now, anyone using XUL or Windows XP have to look elsewhere. It’s the end of an era, back in 2002 Mozilla released Firefox when it was Phoenix as a minimalist browser using XUL and therefore use nimble extentions. Now the XUL fox is dead and being devoured by basilisks under a pale moon.
There are few areas where there is no Chromebook equivalents yet. Larger 17 inch laptops don't have a Chromebook option and of course higher end desktop PCs and workstations. If Google filled those gaps than Microsoft will face more trouble.
Back in the 90s when Netscape was launched there was the talk that the browser could replace the OS. That's what caused Microsoft to push Internet Explorer so hard, to stop Netscape replacing their Windows Monopoly. Imagine an alternate future where we have NetscapeOS and Netscapebooks. I expect Microsoft to eventually crack down hard on Chromebooks, just like they stopped Linux netbooks by licensing Windows XP cheaply to OEMS on netbooks.
Looks like Microsoft is trying to avoid another Windows XP where people use it for years after the official end of support. By forcing killer apps from various software companies to be 10 only, it can get people into the telemetry ecosystem. If only the penguin made a better effort to save us. Valve, if you’re listening use your new Proton feature to support non gaming software and offer people an exit from from telemetry.
Look how many Linux distros are dropping 32bit support for example. People just want the latest shiny thing while perfectly functioning machines get trashed.
People are starving as people grow tulips instead of food. Meanwhile in crypto land precious rare earth metals have been wasted producing gpus and asics to feed the money factories, which will be useless when the difficulty rises again.
Not some fork project like basilisk/pale moon, we the users must force Mozilla to stop fucking up. The 52 ESR was an escape lane for the Quantum madness, and a lifeboat for those forced to use Windows XP (it has a lot of market share in China still). At the very least I say we have a Firefox classic set up, similar in vein to Seamonkey was a continuation of the classic Mozilla suite. If classilla and tenfourfox keeps old macs going, then there should at least be something for XP and XUL.
Not only has millions of tonnes of greenhouses gases been produced due to mining, it has also produced millions of graphics cards that are now useless due to being fried alive by mining, which will now be in a third world waste dump now as they are too hard to recycle. meanwhile bona fide users of graphics cards have had their supplies disrupted, had their prices more than doubled and have had to wait an extra year for new hardare to come out because nvidia was too busy making mining cards to do r&d. Anyone who made “money” from mining should have it seized under environmental protection laws.
Internet Explorer licenced Mosaic from spyglass.
Chrome came from webkit which came from KDE's khtml
Firefox had to change its name twice from Firebird and Phoenix.
HTML came from SGML and hypertext was described in the 1940s.
All browsers claim to be Mozilla/5.0
As anti Windows 7 propaganda. All the while Windows 10 is getting worse. I did a clean install of 1803 in a VM today and it came with a dozen pay to win games pre-installed on the start menu and $kype. This was on the pro version as well. The security risks of using Windows 7 outweigh the time wasted de-bloating Windows 10. Intel is even making new motherboards to support Windows 7.
There’s the Thinkpad P50 that still has a Windows 7 option, otherwise you will need to DISM USB3 drivers and use wufuc to get updates on any laptop you want with 7. I have three laptops and one desktop with Windows 7 partitions.
By cost cutting as much as possible, this is just a follow on from where they can't even bother to put a proper cooling system in their new macbook pros, making them throttle all day.
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Firefox 52 has been EOLed now, anyone using XUL or Windows XP have to look elsewhere. It’s the end of an era, back in 2002 Mozilla released Firefox when it was Phoenix as a minimalist browser using XUL and therefore use nimble extentions. Now the XUL fox is dead and being devoured by basilisks under a pale moon.
Hundreds of millions sold, still widely used after end of support. I expect it will still be widely used in the Playstation 6 era.
There are few areas where there is no Chromebook equivalents yet. Larger 17 inch laptops don't have a Chromebook option and of course higher end desktop PCs and workstations. If Google filled those gaps than Microsoft will face more trouble.
Back in the 90s when Netscape was launched there was the talk that the browser could replace the OS. That's what caused Microsoft to push Internet Explorer so hard, to stop Netscape replacing their Windows Monopoly. Imagine an alternate future where we have NetscapeOS and Netscapebooks. I expect Microsoft to eventually crack down hard on Chromebooks, just like they stopped Linux netbooks by licensing Windows XP cheaply to OEMS on netbooks.
credit card numbers, product keys, cryptocurrency wallets all in the cloud for hackers to harvest. This will be fun.
And release it in time for the 20th anniversary of the Halloween documents.
Looks like Microsoft is trying to avoid another Windows XP where people use it for years after the official end of support. By forcing killer apps from various software companies to be 10 only, it can get people into the telemetry ecosystem. If only the penguin made a better effort to save us. Valve, if you’re listening use your new Proton feature to support non gaming software and offer people an exit from from telemetry.
Look how many Linux distros are dropping 32bit support for example. People just want the latest shiny thing while perfectly functioning machines get trashed.
People are starving as people grow tulips instead of food. Meanwhile in crypto land precious rare earth metals have been wasted producing gpus and asics to feed the money factories, which will be useless when the difficulty rises again.
Who set arbitrary support deadlines for popular software like Windows XP. Just keep support going like like Cobol programs.
Not some fork project like basilisk/pale moon, we the users must force Mozilla to stop fucking up. The 52 ESR was an escape lane for the Quantum madness, and a lifeboat for those forced to use Windows XP (it has a lot of market share in China still). At the very least I say we have a Firefox classic set up, similar in vein to Seamonkey was a continuation of the classic Mozilla suite. If classilla and tenfourfox keeps old macs going, then there should at least be something for XP and XUL.
Use proprietary stores, get locked out. Meanwhile Windows 98 still keeps going thanks to open source software like kernelex.
Not only has millions of tonnes of greenhouses gases been produced due to mining, it has also produced millions of graphics cards that are now useless due to being fried alive by mining, which will now be in a third world waste dump now as they are too hard to recycle. meanwhile bona fide users of graphics cards have had their supplies disrupted, had their prices more than doubled and have had to wait an extra year for new hardare to come out because nvidia was too busy making mining cards to do r&d. Anyone who made “money” from mining should have it seized under environmental protection laws.
pocket, amazon and systemd, ruining your linuxperience.
Internet Explorer licenced Mosaic from spyglass.
Chrome came from webkit which came from KDE's khtml
Firefox had to change its name twice from Firebird and Phoenix.
HTML came from SGML and hypertext was described in the 1940s.
All browsers claim to be Mozilla/5.0
As anti Windows 7 propaganda. All the while Windows 10 is getting worse. I did a clean install of 1803 in a VM today and it came with a dozen pay to win games pre-installed on the start menu and $kype. This was on the pro version as well. The security risks of using Windows 7 outweigh the time wasted de-bloating Windows 10. Intel is even making new motherboards to support Windows 7.
People got bored of magic internet money so went playing with meme stocks instead. Same tulips different field.
But it has it up the wazoo.
There’s the Thinkpad P50 that still has a Windows 7 option, otherwise you will need to DISM USB3 drivers and use wufuc to get updates on any laptop you want with 7. I have three laptops and one desktop with Windows 7 partitions.
So the number of vehicles will still increase. Plus Uber will add more “administrative” fees to cover the wage increase.
Listen to your enterprise and power users. Let us install Windows 7 for longer. I would love the new Threadripper 2 supported with Windows 7.
It should be version 3.14 not 9.0.
Until the whole thing gets diarrhoea. An unexpected reboot that breaks things or installs bubble witch saga is usually what happens.
With nanobots replicating miners.
By cost cutting as much as possible, this is just a follow on from where they can't even bother to put a proper cooling system in their new macbook pros, making them throttle all day.