The financial system in the U.S. is corrupt, in my opinion. There are many arrangements that help those in control steal from the average person.
Sooner or later, people will realize that Facebook promotes fake relationships. Unfortunately, that realization will apparently come after investors have lost billions in Facebook's IPO.
Facebook's reputation with the mainstream media is rapidly getting worse. Facebook is getting a bad reputation partly because of articles
in the mainstream media like these:
Worst company: Facebook was a semi-finalist in the competition to be voted the worst company in the United States.
Facebook follows its business rules? Not always. The April 7, 2012 Wall Street Journal story, Selling You on Facebook, says:
"Facebook requires apps [mobile phone software applications] to ask permission
before accessing a user's personal details. However, a user's friends
aren't notified if information about them is used by a friend's app. An
examination of the apps' activities also suggests that Facebook
occasionally isn't enforcing its own rules on data privacy."
There's more like that in the article.
Facebook tracks every web page you visit that has a Facebook
button (using Javascript). For example, if you visit the Oregonian Newspaper web site,
Facebook tracks every story you visit, even if you don't click on the "Like" button. There are ways to prevent that (using Firefox with the NoScript add-on), but most people don't know about them.
Companies pay people to click on Facebook "Like" buttons. The number of Facebook "Likes" doesn't give any indication of popularity.
On December 9, 2011 it was necessary to click on a Facebook "Like" button to be allowed to see Fry's Electronics ads.
Do 86,688 people (on April 9, 2012) really like Firestone Complete Auto Care, or did the company offer something to be "liked"?
"Aston... was charged... based solely on a Facebook
The underlying issue: Where does the money go?
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Let's not get away from the main subject.
Mozilla Foundation makes more than $100 million a year, paid by Google to make Google the default search engine in Firefox. Where does that money go?
That's not $100 million total, that's $100 million each year.
There is a LOT to be learned in analyzing the profitability of open source software organizations.
Time to post the top 20 excuses... again.
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Every time someone talks about Firefox instability, someone else gives
excuses. In this case, Mozilla Foundation changed the Firefox version number more than once a month
and broke a lot of the extensions. That should not be listed as an excuse, as the parent comment does,
it should be listed as a fault of Mozilla Foundation management.
Mozilla Foundation
Top 20 Excuses
for Not Fixing the
Firefox Memory and CPU Hogging bugs
These are actual excuses given at one time or
another. They are not all the excuses, just the top 20.
1) Maybe this bug is fixed in the nightly build. [The same memory and CPU
hogging bug has been reported many, many times over a period of seven
years.]
2) Yes, this bug exists, but other things are more important. [The bug
eventually takes 100% of CPU power, and makes Windows XP unusable, even after
Firefox is killed. The bug affects the heaviest users of Firefox.]
3) Yes, this bug exists, but it is not a common occurrence. [Numerous users
have reported the bug. See the links.]
4) Works for me. [The bug is complicated to reproduce, so the developers did
a simplified test, which didn't show the bug.]
5) No one has posted a TalkBack report. [If they had read the bug report,
they would know that there is never a TalkBack report, because the bug crashes
TalkBack, too, or a TalkBack report is not generated. TalkBack does not
generate a report if Firefox is hogging the CPU. TalkBack cannot generate a
report if the bug takes 100% of the CPU time.]
6) If you would just give us more information, we would fix this bug. [They
didn't bother to reproduce the bug using the detailed information
provided.]
7) This bug report is a composite of other bugs, so this bug report is
invalid. [The other bugs aren't specified.]
8) You are using Firefox in a way that would crash any software. [But the
same use does not crash any version of Opera.]
9) I don't like the way you worded your bug report. [So, he didn't read it or
think about it.]
10) You should run a debugger and find what causes this problem yourself.
[Then when you have done most of the work, tell us what causes the problem,
and we may fix it.]
11) Many bugs that are filed aren't important to 99.99% of the users.
12) If you are saying bad things about Mozilla and Firefox, you must be
trolling. [They say this even though Firefox and Mozilla instability is
beginning to be reported in media such as Information Week. See the links to
magazine articles in this Slashdot comment: Firefox is the most unstable program in common
use.]
13) Your problem is probably caused by using extensions. [These are extensions
advertised on the Firefox and Mozilla web site, and recommended.]
14) Your problem is probably caused by a corrupt profile. [The same bug has
been reported many times over a period of five years. One of the reports
discusses an extensive test in both Linux and Windows that used a completely
clean installation of the operating systems, not just a clean profile. The CPU
hogging bug and instability was just as severe.]
15) If you are technically knowledgeable, you can spend several hours (or
days) trying to discover the problem: Standard diagnostic - Firefox.
[Firefox has "Standard Diagnostics". It has become accepted that some users
will have severe problems. !!! ]
16) I won't actually read the (many) bug reports, but I will give you some
complicated technical speculation. [This pretends to be helpful but, on
investigation, is shown to have nothing to do with the bugs.]
17) It's understandable that Firefox developers become defensive when users
report so many problems.
18) To spend smart developers' time going over reports of bugs generated by
analysis tools would be a waste. [There have been 3 anal
You can go deeper than that.
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Saying things to make the subject go away avoids useful investigation. As usual, the money needs understanding.
For example, Mozilla Foundation is a rich, rich corporation. No one should make the mistake of thinking that work on Firefox is done mostly by volunteers.
Firefox is a world-class asset. No other browser has all the features. There is no substitute for the capabilities of Firefox together with Firefox add-ons. (Mozilla Foundation calls one thing by 3 names: Add-ons, extensions, and plug-ins.)
But Firefox is unstable. Firefox instabilities are experienced most frequently by those who open many Firefox windows and tabs, and leave them open while putting the computer into standby or hibernation several times. That is the pattern of use of those who do a lot of online research. The crashes and memory gobbling have been reported for more than 10 years, since version 0.9 of Mozilla Suite, before Mozilla began using the name Firefox. Firefox is still unstable even though the change reports for almost every version say there have been "stability improvements".
Firefox crash info:
about:crashes
Put about:crashes into your URL bar and press ENTER. Firefox will then show a list of crashes of the copy of Firefox on that computer.
1) The lists of crashes are ONLY the ones that Firefox caught and that were submitted. The lists do NOT include crashes that did't start the crash reporter. The lists do NOT include crashes that weren't submitted to Mozilla Foundation.
2) The crashes are often preceded by rapidly increasing memory use. Firefox often corrupts Microsoft Windows, so that Windows needs to be re-started. When Firefox corrupts Microsoft Windows it often damages operations in Windows that are not connected with browsing.
"The amount of time it takes an unplugged Tesla to die varies. Tesla's Roadster Owners Manual [Full Zipped PDF] states that the battery should take approximately 11 weeks of inactivity to completely discharge [Page 5-2, Column 3: PDF].
"However, that is from a full 100% charge. If the car has been driven first, say to be parked at an airport for a long trip, that time can be substantially reduced. If the car is driven to nearly its maximum range and then left unplugged, it could potentially "brick" in about one week. Many other scenarios are possible: for example, the car becomes unplugged by accident, or is unwittingly plugged into an extension cord that is defective or too long.
"When a Tesla battery does reach total discharge, it cannot be recovered and must be entirely replaced. Unlike a normal car battery, the best-case replacement cost of the Tesla battery is currently at least $32,000, not including labor and taxes that can add thousands more to the cost."
When they bought a new PC, most people were not aware that Windows Vista had problems, and they bought another PC to get Windows 7. In my opinion, Microsoft compensated for the long delay in releasing a new OS by arranging the rapid sale of 2 OSs.
But, I have a comment about this. Quoting: "Actually that wasn't what Vista capable was about, it was about not slapping Intel in the face." Yes the court case was not about that, the information about a Microsoft top manager saying Vista was not ready to be released came out as part of the legal process, during what is called discovery.
The summary says, "Microsoft has managed to weather several OS flops (Windows Me anyone?)"
In my opinion, those are not "flops". Microsoft apparently deliberately releases bad versions to make more money. I understand that it was discovered during the Vista court case that a Microsoft top manager said the Vista was not ready for release, but Vista was released anyway. (I could not find a reference to the exact language.)
Microsoft released bad versions in the DOS days, also. In all cases of which I am aware, there was no free replacement. Buyers of bad versions were expected to pay again.
"It just can't be that hard to make a bacterium that eats cellulose..."
It is very difficult. Apparently, billions of years ago plants chose cellulose as their structural material because it is strong, extremely chemically stable, and because bacteria doesn't want to eat it.
Vint Cerf is obstructing the truth a little, I think, because the real story would give him less praise. The real issue is that most people at the time who had multi-site network access didn't want that access to be available to the public. For example, I visited someone at Tektronix who was intensely against making it public; he said that everyone with access with whom he had talked agreed with him.
Al Gore insisted that multi-site network access be publicly available, and made that happen using his power as a public servant to get money and government approval. He did that back when CEOs didn't know how to type. That service became the internet as we know it today. By that measure Al Gore did "create" the the public utility we call the internet.
My understanding, which may be wrong, is that Vint Cerf did nothing to make the internet a public utility. He didn't express an opinion. He didn't help promote the internet as a public utility until Al Gore made that possible and somewhat popular.
Before Al Gore's involvement, multi-site network access was available to those with U.S. government contracts, which restricted it to universities and corporations like Tektronix. Remember that in the U.S. the initial drive to network sites together was by DARPA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is part of the U.S. government's ongoing drive to find more efficient ways of killing people and destroying property. There was, initially, no intent to do anything for anyone but the U.S. military. As the Wikipedia article says, "The Mansfield Amendment of 1973 expressly limited appropriations for defense research (through ARPA/DARPA) to projects with direct military application."
It's difficult now for technically knowledeable people to understand how technically backward most people were back then. Al Gore both knew about network technology and recognized its importance.
It seems reasonable to observe that the reason Vint Cerf's defense of Al Gore over the years has been expressed in tangled language is because he didn't want all the credit for the public utility to go to Al Gore.
Some of those who control the U.S. government want to build an oil
pipeline through Iran to get oil from the "Stan" countries to the ocean
where it can be shipped easily. That idea would be financially
profitable only if U.S. taxpayers paid for security. The U.S. government
is, in some ways, VERY corrupt.
Remember that the U.S. government supported Iraqi dictator Saddam
Hussein's war with Iran so that U.S. companies could sell weapons to
Iraq, and with the idea of the enormous profits that would come from
building the pipeline through Iran.
Also, remember that the U.S. government has interfered with the
politics in Iran since before before 1953, when the U.S. agency known as the
CIA arranged the removal of a democratically elected president,
President Mossadegh. The U.S. government arranged that the Shah have
complete power. See for example, Politics, Power, and US Policy in Iran, 1950-1953 (PDF file, Harvard University).
Quote:... the August 1953 coup was
not an isolated incident, but an outgrowth of decisions and policies
made by the Truman administration largely as a result of a truly
remarkable U.S. military buildup that really began to come on line in mid-1952. Such aggressiveness
would have been impossible in 1950 or 1951, even if Eisenhower had been
president.
Opposition in Iran to the violent regime of the Shah caused support for
Muslim clerics who took over management of the government. Iranians say
that clerics have usually not been good business and government managers. The unthinking violence of
the U.S. government toward Iran has caused Iranians to be very afraid of
what the U.S. government might do in the future.
One reason for the Iranian government to develop nuclear materials is to
try to protect Iran against U.S. government violence. Another reason is
that all governments need to give attention to sources of energy that
do not cause global warming.
Some with influence in the U.S. government wanted to build an oil
pipeline through Afghanistan. That is one of the reasons the U.S.
government spends taxpayer money there, but it seems that getting
control of Afghanistan will not happen soon, so there is renewed interest in violence toward Iran.
The U.S. government's support for violence toward Arab and Muslim
nations, partly as a way for a few to make money, is seen by some as caused by
Jewish manipulation of the U.S. government. There is support by some
Jews in the U.S. to get U.S. taxpayers to pay for the security of
Israel.
Apple collapsed before, during the Sculley period.
I had serious problems with Namecheap.
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I had serious problems with Namecheap. They seemed to want to refuse to renew my domains. I transferred everything to domainsite.com. Not wonderful, but no problems with renewal.
According to this March 11, 2008 story in Wired, GoDaddy shut down an
entire web site of 250,000 pages because of one archived mailing list comment:
GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com. See
below for Slashdot's story about RateMyCop.com.
R.I.P.
FTP
(2009-07-13, 359 comments) The GoDaddy web site is extremely complicated.
Quote: "In that case, why don't more people switch to administering their
sites via SFTP instead of FTP? Here are the steps it took me to enable SFTP on
my GoDaddy hosting account. Feel free to use this as a reference, but
the obvious point is that as long as this many steps are required, it's safe
to say that most users won't be switching: 1) Go to the 'Hosting' menu and
pick 'My Hosting Account.' 2) Next to the name of your website, pick 'Manage
Account.' This will open the Hosting Control Center. 3) In Hosting Control
Center, click to expand the 'Settings' options. 4) In the 'Settings' control
panel, click the 'SSH' icon. 5) You will see a page saying 'SSH is not set
up', and prompting you to enter a phone number so that their automated service
can call you with a PIN number. After you enter your phone number, the phone
rings a second later, and you enter the PIN in a form on the GoDaddy website.
6 ) You will then see a page which says: Current Hosting Account Status:
Pending Account Change -- Your request to enable SSH is being processed. This
upgrade may take up to 24 hours." [Punctuation and emphasis changed for
clarity.]
Registrars Still
Ignoring ICANN Rules (2009-07-22, 122 comments) Quote: "GoDaddy (and
their reseller arm, Wild West Domains) have a different problem: They still
block transfers for 60 days after a registrant's contact update, even after
the ICANN update specifically prohibited doing so. They freely admit it,
too."
I don't think I know anyone who takes pain drugs, so I have no personal
knowledge. However, I found a short article about Methadone on the Seattle
Times web site recently when I was looking at Google Health news. Even the
summary seemed obviously suspicious, so I looked at the article.
To me, that article and all the data to which the Slashdot story linked screamed
incompetence or fraud. Now that I've read a little of the linked data, I
realize the writers are at least partly incompetent. Possibly only whoever started them looking was engaged in fraud to sell more expensive drugs.
"It does not matter if you switch every body to oxycontin or
oxycodone. These drugs are terrible at controlling pain and all are very
dangerous."
"... I have an issue with how the Seattle Times is drawing a
correlation between poverty and methadone poisoning...."
Possibly Methadone is more often given to people who have little education, and who are therefore more likely to overdose because they didn't understand the instructions, or because they have other issues that confuse them.
"Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player 11.0.1.152 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, and Adobe Flash Player 11.0.1.153 and earlier versions for Android. These vulnerabilities could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system."
Firefox developers should take responsibility for ALL instability: Every time this issue is discussed, someone claims that Firefox should not be blamed for the faults of Firefox add-ons and extensions and plug-ins. However, they are the reason people use Firefox. Firefox developers need to take responsibility; an unstable add-on should not be allowed to cause Firefox to be unstable.
Computer2000 is the European version of Tech Data, a U.S. company. Our account at Tech Data is inactive now, because Tech Data in the U.S. has often tried to sell to us for more than retail. I will check our account in the morning here after I get a new password issued.
If you mean £9.63 British Pounds for each cable end, that is far more expensive than the cost of an entire 8-meter HDMI 1.4 cable with ferrite core ends in the United States.
(The A with a circumflex is displayed because of a defect in Slashdot's software.)
You said, "Many of the reports say the problems happen with a lot of tabs open. I don't use tabs, instead preferring separate windows and the OS's native task management. Perhaps this is why I'm not seeing the problem?"
Yes, that's why you don't experience the problem.
Apparently you didn't notice this in the comment to which you are replying: "The crashes and memory gobbling have been reported for more than 10 years..." Many, many people have reported the problem, over many years.
Apparently you didn't notice this: "... add-ons such as Session Manager, Session Manager Export Tool, Mozilla Archive Format, Flashblock, Multi Links, and Tab Mix Plus..."
Please provide a link to parts you recommend. Repeating this paragraph: HDMI-over-network-cable adapters I've seen are far, far more expensive than HDMI cable, require work that itself costs more than HDMI cable, and definitely don't meet the most recent specifications.
That is just one example of many. The on-topic issue is that, every time I've posted a comment or a bug report about the instability of Firefox, those who don't do extensive research and don't open many windows and tabs simultaneously say they don't experience the problem. So, I tried to give an example of the kind of research in which Firefox with extensions is extremely valuable. But, of course, there are millions of subjects that are researched.
For the last 10 years, every time I've tried to encourage fixing the instability in Firefox, someone has posted a negative comment that shows no understanding of what I said.
Where is Mozilla Foundation's money going? The Foundation has been taking in more than $50 million dollars a year for several years, lately more than $70 million. For that amount of money it does not seem out of place to ask that a bug that causes major instability be fixed.
Example of use of Firefox for research: The example I gave concerning HDMI cables is just that, one example of millions of kinds of research that happen every day. Doing research often involves opening many windows and tabs until final decisions can be made. Opening many windows and tabs, leaving them open for several hours, interspersed with several hibernations or standbys, causes Firefox to be unstable.
If you don't like my example, choose one of your own.
You said "YMMV". Yes, my experience is different than yours. Different OS, different kind of computers, and you probably don't open as many windows and tabs.
Example of use of Firefox for research: The example I gave is just that, one example of millions of kinds of research that happen every day. Doing research often involves opening many windows and tabs until final decisions can be made. That causes Firefox to be unstable. If you don't like my example, choose one of your own.
HDMI: This is way off-topic, but apparently you are thinking of earlier HDMI specs. The HDMI 1.4b specification is for very high resolution video and Ethernet combined. All the HDMI-over-network-cable adapters I've seen are far, far more expensive than HDMI cable, require work that itself costs more than HDMI cable, and definitely don't meet the most recent specifications.
If you have an example of a network cable adapter for HDMI that meets the full specs, please provide a part number or link.
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The financial system in the U.S. is corrupt, in my opinion. There are many arrangements that help those in control steal from the average person.
... was charged ... based solely on a Facebook
Sooner or later, people will realize that Facebook promotes fake relationships. Unfortunately, that realization will apparently come after investors have lost billions in Facebook's IPO.
Facebook's reputation with the mainstream media is rapidly getting worse. Facebook is getting a bad reputation partly because of articles in the mainstream media like these:
Worst company: Facebook was a semi-finalist in the competition to be voted the worst company in the United States.
Facebook follows its business rules? Not always. The April 7, 2012 Wall Street Journal story, Selling You on Facebook, says:
"Facebook requires apps [mobile phone software applications] to ask permission before accessing a user's personal details. However, a user's friends aren't notified if information about them is used by a friend's app. An examination of the apps' activities also suggests that Facebook occasionally isn't enforcing its own rules on data privacy."
There's more like that in the article.
Facebook tracks every web page you visit that has a Facebook button (using Javascript). For example, if you visit the Oregonian Newspaper web site, Facebook tracks every story you visit, even if you don't click on the "Like" button. There are ways to prevent that (using Firefox with the NoScript add-on), but most people don't know about them.
Companies pay people to click on Facebook "Like" buttons. The number of Facebook "Likes" doesn't give any indication of popularity.
On December 9, 2011 it was necessary to click on a Facebook "Like" button to be allowed to see Fry's Electronics ads.
Do 86,688 people (on April 9, 2012) really like Firestone Complete Auto Care, or did the company offer something to be "liked"?
A few problems with Facebook: Richard Stallman wrote a short list of things wrong with Facebook.
How much information does Facebook keep? Read the December 13, 2011 article, Twenty Something Asks Facebook For His File And Gets It - All 1,200 Pages.
What do people in other countries think? The May 14, 2010 article, Facebook is not your friend gives one idea.
The June 15, 2011 article, The End of Facebook, and the June 14, 2011 article, Is this the beginning of the end for Facebook? give others.
Most people don't understand the problems that may occur. For example, consider the March 28, 2012 article, Teacher's aide says 'no access' to her Facebook; now legal battle with school.
This April 4, 2012 article would be funny if it weren't so sad: Woman arrested for assault based on Facebook photo. Quotes:
"Aston
Let's not get away from the main subject.
Mozilla Foundation makes more than $100 million a year, paid by Google to make Google the default search engine in Firefox. Where does that money go?
That's not $100 million total, that's $100 million each year.
There is a LOT to be learned in analyzing the profitability of open source software organizations.
Every time someone talks about Firefox instability, someone else gives excuses. In this case, Mozilla Foundation changed the Firefox version number more than once a month and broke a lot of the extensions. That should not be listed as an excuse, as the parent comment does, it should be listed as a fault of Mozilla Foundation management.
Mozilla Foundation
Top 20 Excuses
for Not Fixing the
Firefox Memory and CPU Hogging bugs
These are actual excuses given at one time or another. They are not all the excuses, just the top 20.
1) Maybe this bug is fixed in the nightly build. [The same memory and CPU hogging bug has been reported many, many times over a period of seven years.]
2) Yes, this bug exists, but other things are more important. [The bug eventually takes 100% of CPU power, and makes Windows XP unusable, even after Firefox is killed. The bug affects the heaviest users of Firefox.]
3) Yes, this bug exists, but it is not a common occurrence. [Numerous users have reported the bug. See the links.]
4) Works for me. [The bug is complicated to reproduce, so the developers did a simplified test, which didn't show the bug.]
5) No one has posted a TalkBack report. [If they had read the bug report, they would know that there is never a TalkBack report, because the bug crashes TalkBack, too, or a TalkBack report is not generated. TalkBack does not generate a report if Firefox is hogging the CPU. TalkBack cannot generate a report if the bug takes 100% of the CPU time.]
6) If you would just give us more information, we would fix this bug. [They didn't bother to reproduce the bug using the detailed information provided.]
7) This bug report is a composite of other bugs, so this bug report is invalid. [The other bugs aren't specified.]
8) You are using Firefox in a way that would crash any software. [But the same use does not crash any version of Opera.]
9) I don't like the way you worded your bug report. [So, he didn't read it or think about it.]
10) You should run a debugger and find what causes this problem yourself. [Then when you have done most of the work, tell us what causes the problem, and we may fix it.]
11) Many bugs that are filed aren't important to 99.99% of the users.
12) If you are saying bad things about Mozilla and Firefox, you must be trolling. [They say this even though Firefox and Mozilla instability is beginning to be reported in media such as Information Week. See the links to magazine articles in this Slashdot comment: Firefox is the most unstable program in common use.]
13) Your problem is probably caused by using extensions. [These are extensions advertised on the Firefox and Mozilla web site, and recommended.]
14) Your problem is probably caused by a corrupt profile. [The same bug has been reported many times over a period of five years. One of the reports discusses an extensive test in both Linux and Windows that used a completely clean installation of the operating systems, not just a clean profile. The CPU hogging bug and instability was just as severe.]
15) If you are technically knowledgeable, you can spend several hours (or days) trying to discover the problem: Standard diagnostic - Firefox. [Firefox has "Standard Diagnostics". It has become accepted that some users will have severe problems. !!! ]
16) I won't actually read the (many) bug reports, but I will give you some complicated technical speculation. [This pretends to be helpful but, on investigation, is shown to have nothing to do with the bugs.]
17) It's understandable that Firefox developers become defensive when users report so many problems.
18) To spend smart developers' time going over reports of bugs generated by analysis tools would be a waste. [There have been 3 anal
Saying things to make the subject go away avoids useful investigation. As usual, the money needs understanding.
For example, Mozilla Foundation is a rich, rich corporation. No one should make the mistake of thinking that work on Firefox is done mostly by volunteers.
But where does all the money go? Did you see $78.6 million worth of improvements in Firefox in 2008?
Did you see improvements suggesting that Mozilla Foundation had $168 million in assets in 2010? -- (Official PDF file, see page 2. Numbers are in thousands, as it says at the top of the page.)
Firefox is a world-class asset. No other browser has all the features. There is no substitute for the capabilities of Firefox together with Firefox add-ons. (Mozilla Foundation calls one thing by 3 names: Add-ons, extensions, and plug-ins.)
But Firefox is unstable. Firefox instabilities are experienced most frequently by those who open many Firefox windows and tabs, and leave them open while putting the computer into standby or hibernation several times. That is the pattern of use of those who do a lot of online research. The crashes and memory gobbling have been reported for more than 10 years, since version 0.9 of Mozilla Suite, before Mozilla began using the name Firefox. Firefox is still unstable even though the change reports for almost every version say there have been "stability improvements".
Firefox crash info:
about:crashes
Put about:crashes into your URL bar and press ENTER. Firefox will then show a list of crashes of the copy of Firefox on that computer.
Crash info for all users and all versions:
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/products/Firefox
Crashes per 100 active daily users, version 10.0, the version before the most recent:
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/products/Firefox/versions/10.0
Version 11 is less stable. Crashes per 100 active daily users, version 11.0, the most recent version:
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/products/Firefox/versions/11.0
Top crashers, version 11.0:
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrasher/byversion/Firefox/11.0/14
Notes:
1) The lists of crashes are ONLY the ones that Firefox caught and that were submitted. The lists do NOT include crashes that did't start the crash reporter. The lists do NOT include crashes that weren't submitted to Mozilla Foundation.
2) The crashes are often preceded by rapidly increasing memory use. Firefox often corrupts Microsoft Windows, so that Windows needs to be re-started. When Firefox corrupts Microsoft Windows it often damages operations in Windows that are not connected with browsing.
Quote from the article to which Jeremiah linked, Tesla's 'Brick' Problem:
"The amount of time it takes an unplugged Tesla to die varies. Tesla's Roadster Owners Manual [Full Zipped PDF] states that the battery should take approximately 11 weeks of inactivity to completely discharge [Page 5-2, Column 3: PDF].
"However, that is from a full 100% charge. If the car has been driven first, say to be parked at an airport for a long trip, that time can be substantially reduced. If the car is driven to nearly its maximum range and then left unplugged, it could potentially "brick" in about one week. Many other scenarios are possible: for example, the car becomes unplugged by accident, or is unwittingly plugged into an extension cord that is defective or too long.
"When a Tesla battery does reach total discharge, it cannot be recovered and must be entirely replaced. Unlike a normal car battery, the best-case replacement cost of the Tesla battery is currently at least $32,000, not including labor and taxes that can add thousands more to the cost."
When they bought a new PC, most people were not aware that Windows Vista had problems, and they bought another PC to get Windows 7. In my opinion, Microsoft compensated for the long delay in releasing a new OS by arranging the rapid sale of 2 OSs.
Interesting comment.
But, I have a comment about this. Quoting: "Actually that wasn't what Vista capable was about, it was about not slapping Intel in the face." Yes the court case was not about that, the information about a Microsoft top manager saying Vista was not ready to be released came out as part of the legal process, during what is called discovery.
The summary says, "Microsoft has managed to weather several OS flops (Windows Me anyone?)"
In my opinion, those are not "flops". Microsoft apparently deliberately releases bad versions to make more money. I understand that it was discovered during the Vista court case that a Microsoft top manager said the Vista was not ready for release, but Vista was released anyway. (I could not find a reference to the exact language.)
Microsoft released bad versions in the DOS days, also. In all cases of which I am aware, there was no free replacement. Buyers of bad versions were expected to pay again.
"It just can't be that hard to make a bacterium that eats cellulose..."
It is very difficult. Apparently, billions of years ago plants chose cellulose as their structural material because it is strong, extremely chemically stable, and because bacteria doesn't want to eat it.
Vint Cerf is obstructing the truth a little, I think, because the real story would give him less praise. The real issue is that most people at the time who had multi-site network access didn't want that access to be available to the public. For example, I visited someone at Tektronix who was intensely against making it public; he said that everyone with access with whom he had talked agreed with him.
Al Gore insisted that multi-site network access be publicly available, and made that happen using his power as a public servant to get money and government approval. He did that back when CEOs didn't know how to type. That service became the internet as we know it today. By that measure Al Gore did "create" the the public utility we call the internet.
My understanding, which may be wrong, is that Vint Cerf did nothing to make the internet a public utility. He didn't express an opinion. He didn't help promote the internet as a public utility until Al Gore made that possible and somewhat popular.
Before Al Gore's involvement, multi-site network access was available to those with U.S. government contracts, which restricted it to universities and corporations like Tektronix. Remember that in the U.S. the initial drive to network sites together was by DARPA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is part of the U.S. government's ongoing drive to find more efficient ways of killing people and destroying property. There was, initially, no intent to do anything for anyone but the U.S. military. As the Wikipedia article says, "The Mansfield Amendment of 1973 expressly limited appropriations for defense research (through ARPA/DARPA) to projects with direct military application."
It's difficult now for technically knowledeable people to understand how technically backward most people were back then. Al Gore both knew about network technology and recognized its importance.
It seems reasonable to observe that the reason Vint Cerf's defense of Al Gore over the years has been expressed in tangled language is because he didn't want all the credit for the public utility to go to Al Gore.
Isn't Trader Joe's twice the quality and four times as expensive?
"Don't Worry About Global Warming, Say 16 Scientists in the WSJ"
should be
"What Murdoch wants you to think."
It seems reasonable to guess that, if Murdoch finds a way to make money from curbing CO2 emissions, there will be a new article proposing that.
The Wall Street Journal, never a useful publication, is now just a massive advertisement for Murdoch.
"Never a useful publication"? Did the Wall Street Journal tell us of the plans by the financial community to steal hundreds of billions of dollars? No. The book Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader did, in 1999, with huge amounts of exact detail. Warren Buffett did, in 2003, when he said, Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
It is a mistake to think that all Israeli Jews agree with Israeli or even Jewish policies. For example: Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jews 'harass' 8-year-old girl over dress. Quote: "... 50 people involved in the abuse of an 8-year-old." Also see Israel braced for protests against treatment of women after girl, 8, is spat on by Jewish extremists.
... the August 1953 coup was
not an isolated incident, but an outgrowth of decisions and policies
made by the Truman administration largely as a result of a truly
remarkable U.S. military buildup that really began to come on line in mid-1952. Such aggressiveness
would have been impossible in 1950 or 1951, even if Eisenhower had been
president.
Here are only some of the reasons many Israelis disagree with the typical policies of the Israeli government:
Some Israelis think that further violence toward Iran will cause trouble for Israel. Partly that is because there is the idea that encouraging violence against 1.6 billion Muslims is self-defeating. There are only an estimated 14 million (not billion) practicing Jews in the entire world.
Some of those who control the U.S. government want to build an oil pipeline through Iran to get oil from the "Stan" countries to the ocean where it can be shipped easily. That idea would be financially profitable only if U.S. taxpayers paid for security. The U.S. government is, in some ways, VERY corrupt.
Remember that the U.S. government supported Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's war with Iran so that U.S. companies could sell weapons to Iraq, and with the idea of the enormous profits that would come from building the pipeline through Iran.
Also, remember that the U.S. government has interfered with the politics in Iran since before before 1953, when the U.S. agency known as the CIA arranged the removal of a democratically elected president, President Mossadegh. The U.S. government arranged that the Shah have complete power. See for example, Politics, Power, and US Policy in Iran, 1950-1953 (PDF file, Harvard University). Quote:
Opposition in Iran to the violent regime of the Shah caused support for Muslim clerics who took over management of the government. Iranians say that clerics have usually not been good business and government managers. The unthinking violence of the U.S. government toward Iran has caused Iranians to be very afraid of what the U.S. government might do in the future.
One reason for the Iranian government to develop nuclear materials is to try to protect Iran against U.S. government violence. Another reason is that all governments need to give attention to sources of energy that do not cause global warming.
Some with influence in the U.S. government wanted to build an oil pipeline through Afghanistan. That is one of the reasons the U.S. government spends taxpayer money there, but it seems that getting control of Afghanistan will not happen soon, so there is renewed interest in violence toward Iran.
The U.S. government's support for violence toward Arab and Muslim nations, partly as a way for a few to make money, is seen by some as caused by Jewish manipulation of the U.S. government. There is support by some Jews in the U.S. to get U.S. taxpayers to pay for the security of Israel.
There are only 5,874,300 Jews in Israel. There are approximately 5,275,000 Jews in the United States. In some ways, the U.S. is as much o
Will Apple collapse now that Steve Jobs died?
Apple collapsed before, during the Sculley period.
I had serious problems with Namecheap. They seemed to want to refuse to renew my domains. I transferred everything to domainsite.com. Not wonderful, but no problems with renewal.
What other domain name registrars are good?
20 Stories about GoDaddy on Slashdot
Here are more reasons. These are stories about GoDaddy on Slashdot, in order by date, to 2010-09-11:
Go Daddy Usurps Network Solutions (2005-05-04)
GoDaddy Serves Blank Pages to Safari & Opera (2005-12-08)
GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft (2006-03-23)
GoDaddy Holds Domains Hostage (2006-06-17)
GoDaddy Caves To Irish Legal Threat (2006-09-16)
MySpace and GoDaddy Shut Down Security Site (2007-01-26) That incident prompted this web site:
Exposing the Many Reasons Not to Trust GoDaddy with Your Domain Names.
Alternative Registrars to GoDaddy? (2007-02-03)
GoDaddy Bobbles DST Changeover? (2007-03-11)
850K RegisterFly Domains Moved To GoDaddy (2007-05-29)
According to this March 11, 2008 story in Wired, GoDaddy shut down an entire web site of 250,000 pages because of one archived mailing list comment: GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com. See below for Slashdot's story about RateMyCop.com.
GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com (2008-03-12)
ICANN Moves Against GoDaddy Domain Lockdowns (2008-04-08)
GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers (2008-06-29)
KnujOn Updates Top 10 Spam-Friendly Registrars List (2009-02-06, 80 comments) GoDaddy is on the list.
R.I.P. FTP (2009-07-13, 359 comments) The GoDaddy web site is extremely complicated. Quote: "In that case, why don't more people switch to administering their sites via SFTP instead of FTP? Here are the steps it took me to enable SFTP on my GoDaddy hosting account. Feel free to use this as a reference, but the obvious point is that as long as this many steps are required, it's safe to say that most users won't be switching: 1) Go to the 'Hosting' menu and pick 'My Hosting Account.' 2) Next to the name of your website, pick 'Manage Account.' This will open the Hosting Control Center. 3) In Hosting Control Center, click to expand the 'Settings' options. 4) In the 'Settings' control panel, click the 'SSH' icon. 5) You will see a page saying 'SSH is not set up', and prompting you to enter a phone number so that their automated service can call you with a PIN number. After you enter your phone number, the phone rings a second later, and you enter the PIN in a form on the GoDaddy website. 6 ) You will then see a page which says: Current Hosting Account Status: Pending Account Change -- Your request to enable SSH is being processed. This upgrade may take up to 24 hours." [Punctuation and emphasis changed for clarity.]
Registrars Still Ignoring ICANN Rules (2009-07-22, 122 comments) Quote: "GoDaddy (and their reseller arm, Wild West Domains) have a different problem: They still block transfers for 60 days after a registrant's contact update, even after the ICANN update specifically prohibited doing so. They freely admit it, too."
I don't think I know anyone who takes pain drugs, so I have no personal knowledge. However, I found a short article about Methadone on the Seattle Times web site recently when I was looking at Google Health news. Even the summary seemed obviously suspicious, so I looked at the article.
..."
To me, that article and all the data to which the Slashdot story linked screamed incompetence or fraud. Now that I've read a little of the linked data, I realize the writers are at least partly incompetent. Possibly only whoever started them looking was engaged in fraud to sell more expensive drugs.
I just discovered that I'm not the only one who thinks that. Short quotes, read the full comments:
"It does not matter if you switch every body to oxycontin or oxycodone. These drugs are terrible at controlling pain and all are very dangerous."
"... I have an issue with how the Seattle Times is drawing a correlation between poverty and methadone poisoning.
Possibly Methadone is more often given to people who have little education, and who are therefore more likely to overdose because they didn't understand the instructions, or because they have other issues that confuse them.
Bing Is Not Google: BING.
You said, "Adobe Flash under Firefox seems to be able to kill my Linux system."
Flash is definitely a problem. I use the Flashblock add-on, but once one Flash instance is allowed, Flash can corrupt a system.
This week's vulnerabilities in Flash: Here are just the most recent 12 hassles with Flash: Security update available for Adobe Flash Player. Quote:
"Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player 11.0.1.152 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, and Adobe Flash Player 11.0.1.153 and earlier versions for Android. These vulnerabilities could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system."
Firefox developers should take responsibility for ALL instability: Every time this issue is discussed, someone claims that Firefox should not be blamed for the faults of Firefox add-ons and extensions and plug-ins. However, they are the reason people use Firefox. Firefox developers need to take responsibility; an unstable add-on should not be allowed to cause Firefox to be unstable.
about:crashes shows only the crashes Firefox caught, not all of them.
Computer2000 is the European version of Tech Data, a U.S. company. Our account at Tech Data is inactive now, because Tech Data in the U.S. has often tried to sell to us for more than retail. I will check our account in the morning here after I get a new password issued.
If you mean £9.63 British Pounds for each cable end, that is far more expensive than the cost of an entire 8-meter HDMI 1.4 cable with ferrite core ends in the United States.
(The A with a circumflex is displayed because of a defect in Slashdot's software.)
You said, "Many of the reports say the problems happen with a lot of tabs open. I don't use tabs, instead preferring separate windows and the OS's native task management. Perhaps this is why I'm not seeing the problem?"
Yes, that's why you don't experience the problem.
Apparently you didn't notice this in the comment to which you are replying: "The crashes and memory gobbling have been reported for more than 10 years..." Many, many people have reported the problem, over many years.
Apparently you didn't notice this: "... add-ons such as Session Manager, Session Manager Export Tool, Mozilla Archive Format, Flashblock, Multi Links, and Tab Mix Plus..."
Please provide a link to parts you recommend. Repeating this paragraph: HDMI-over-network-cable adapters I've seen are far, far more expensive than HDMI cable, require work that itself costs more than HDMI cable, and definitely don't meet the most recent specifications.
That is just one example of many. The on-topic issue is that, every time I've posted a comment or a bug report about the instability of Firefox, those who don't do extensive research and don't open many windows and tabs simultaneously say they don't experience the problem. So, I tried to give an example of the kind of research in which Firefox with extensions is extremely valuable. But, of course, there are millions of subjects that are researched.
For the last 10 years, every time I've tried to encourage fixing the instability in Firefox, someone has posted a negative comment that shows no understanding of what I said.
Where is Mozilla Foundation's money going? The Foundation has been taking in more than $50 million dollars a year for several years, lately more than $70 million. For that amount of money it does not seem out of place to ask that a bug that causes major instability be fixed.
Example of use of Firefox for research: The example I gave concerning HDMI cables is just that, one example of millions of kinds of research that happen every day. Doing research often involves opening many windows and tabs until final decisions can be made. Opening many windows and tabs, leaving them open for several hours, interspersed with several hibernations or standbys, causes Firefox to be unstable.
If you don't like my example, choose one of your own.
You said "YMMV". Yes, my experience is different than yours. Different OS, different kind of computers, and you probably don't open as many windows and tabs.
Example of use of Firefox for research: The example I gave is just that, one example of millions of kinds of research that happen every day. Doing research often involves opening many windows and tabs until final decisions can be made. That causes Firefox to be unstable. If you don't like my example, choose one of your own.
HDMI: This is way off-topic, but apparently you are thinking of earlier HDMI specs. The HDMI 1.4b specification is for very high resolution video and Ethernet combined. All the HDMI-over-network-cable adapters I've seen are far, far more expensive than HDMI cable, require work that itself costs more than HDMI cable, and definitely don't meet the most recent specifications.
If you have an example of a network cable adapter for HDMI that meets the full specs, please provide a part number or link.