Actually I upgraded from Firefox 0.8 to Firefox 0.9 on Windows and it did pull in my Firefox bookmarks. But it might have a problem with earlier installations (Firebird or Phoenix), or something like that. Or maybe there is a bug on Linux only (which I will find out when Gentoo add the ebuild.) Or then again, maybe people aren't reading the dialog carefully before pressing okay or something.
You know what would be really good? Every web browser using the same bookmark directory. Then you could switch from one to the other and they would all stay in sync. Phwoar.:-)
Yeah, it makes me wonder what conditions cause it to be deleted and what conditions cause it to remain.
In any case the original bookmarks might still be in your old Phoenix (or.phoenix) directory, since Firefox's configuration has moved to a new location.
I really want the Firefox0.8 OS X pinstripe theme back. Not to sound inflammatory, but these new buttons look like they were made by the same design team that came up with the default windows XP theme...
Even on Windows they look wrong, especially the 'close tab' button.
Honestly, they try to use the Windows theme everywhere, to the point that they stop using it in a couple of places and it looks really obvious. The least they could do is use the themed window close button in place of their shitty one.
I would still advise backing up your Mozilla and Phoenix directories just in case, but in my case it imported all the settings from Firefox 0.8 with no trouble at all.
By the same token there was no need for AAC either. Yet somehow that one made it into a player. I'm not sure whether we can really blame the public, or whether the true blame should go to the device manufacturers for not making their devices upgradeable to support more formats.
But why wait, if you have Bluetooth access to people all you need to do is plant a Bluetooth device on a busy street crossing, and spam ads to everyone who walks past.
Since nobody seems to have had a problem when this was done in.asf, I don't suppose there will be a problem now. It's not like the 'file' command can't tell what is inside the file.
Well there's no point if you already have the music encoded anyway. But if you didn't have it encoded already, you had a choice between Ogg and MP3, and you weren't one of those iPod fanboys, you'd surely choose Ogg over MP3, right? I mean all decent media players play both formats with the same degree of ease.
That is actually awesome, but in a way I'm sad that they don't use mod music in Unreal anymore. That was like, mod music's last stand. Or something.:-/
So we may have 200Mbit UDSL coming, but the providers will cap at 1/8 the speed like most do at present with ADSL... giving something more like 25Mbit. Still pretty damn good though, actually. All this still assumes that their 1/8 the speed is affordable to mere mortals, though.
Yeah, same experience here but in reverse. Not finding any decent mail client or IM app on GNOME, I ended up running KMail and Psi from GNOME anyway... eventually I ended up switching across to Fluxbox for a few months, and then eventually to KDE. I'm sure in another few months I'll be on something completely different though.
Well Kopete is crap, yes, but Psi is better than both Kopete and Gaim, so it really isn't an issue. Of course, that's why I said Firefox should use the damn wallet. Psi and Gaim should use it too.:-)
Poll results certainly sound like a good idea. The Sydney Morning Herald (another of the dozens of sites which are locking down soon) hold polls, and in the past they have been less than reliable (as an example, back in 2000 or 1999 they had a "what do you think of browser cookies" poll, which I answered by using their assumption on the existence of browser cookies to post 1000 votes against cookies.)
I'm hoping that in the long run, solutions like KDE's password wallet become more popular. That way when I move computers, I just copy over a single file to move all my passwords to the new location. It beats cookies anyway. Now if we could just get Firefox to use the damn wallet, I would switch from Konqueror.:-/
Yeah, that too. Although thankfully the wireless broadband ISPs are starting to fill that gap. I'm actually within DSL range where I live but I'm really tempted to try wireless just to see if it lives up to the hype.:-)
It's also assuming that they actually deliver on the 200Mbps to any mere mortal. Because as noted in the article:
According to the DSL Forum, there are roughly 73.4 million DSL subscribers worldwide. Most of them use ADSL services, which typically offer 8mbps of downstream bandwidth at distances of up to 5 or 6 kilometers.
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Actually I upgraded from Firefox 0.8 to Firefox 0.9 on Windows and it did pull in my Firefox bookmarks. But it might have a problem with earlier installations (Firebird or Phoenix), or something like that. Or maybe there is a bug on Linux only (which I will find out when Gentoo add the ebuild.) Or then again, maybe people aren't reading the dialog carefully before pressing okay or something.
You know what would be really good? Every web browser using the same bookmark directory. Then you could switch from one to the other and they would all stay in sync. Phwoar. :-)
Yeah, it makes me wonder what conditions cause it to be deleted and what conditions cause it to remain.
In any case the original bookmarks might still be in your old Phoenix (or .phoenix) directory, since Firefox's configuration has moved to a new location.
I really want the Firefox0.8 OS X pinstripe theme back. Not to sound inflammatory, but these new buttons look like they were made by the same design team that came up with the default windows XP theme...
Even on Windows they look wrong, especially the 'close tab' button.
Honestly, they try to use the Windows theme everywhere, to the point that they stop using it in a couple of places and it looks really obvious. The least they could do is use the themed window close button in place of their shitty one.
I would still advise backing up your Mozilla and Phoenix directories just in case, but in my case it imported all the settings from Firefox 0.8 with no trouble at all.
By the same token there was no need for AAC either. Yet somehow that one made it into a player. I'm not sure whether we can really blame the public, or whether the true blame should go to the device manufacturers for not making their devices upgradeable to support more formats.
If they'd written it in Java, it would be able to infect more than Series 60 devices... pretty much any device with MIDP 1.0 and the Bluetooth API. :-)
Although how many phones have the Bluetooth API I wonder...
Not long.
But why wait, if you have Bluetooth access to people all you need to do is plant a Bluetooth device on a busy street crossing, and spam ads to everyone who walks past.
Since nobody seems to have had a problem when this was done in .asf, I don't suppose there will be a problem now. It's not like the 'file' command can't tell what is inside the file.
Well there's no point if you already have the music encoded anyway. But if you didn't have it encoded already, you had a choice between Ogg and MP3, and you weren't one of those iPod fanboys, you'd surely choose Ogg over MP3, right? I mean all decent media players play both formats with the same degree of ease.
...because I'm sure we can all blame the slow uptake on the format. That seems to be the status quo around here, anyway.
That is actually awesome, but in a way I'm sad that they don't use mod music in Unreal anymore. That was like, mod music's last stand. Or something. :-/
That's exactly what I was talking about.
So we may have 200Mbit UDSL coming, but the providers will cap at 1/8 the speed like most do at present with ADSL... giving something more like 25Mbit. Still pretty damn good though, actually. All this still assumes that their 1/8 the speed is affordable to mere mortals, though.
Not the most portable app in the world, though.
Yeah, same experience here but in reverse. Not finding any decent mail client or IM app on GNOME, I ended up running KMail and Psi from GNOME anyway... eventually I ended up switching across to Fluxbox for a few months, and then eventually to KDE. I'm sure in another few months I'll be on something completely different though.
That's good thinking. I wonder how much work the integration would be.
Well Kopete is crap, yes, but Psi is better than both Kopete and Gaim, so it really isn't an issue. Of course, that's why I said Firefox should use the damn wallet. Psi and Gaim should use it too. :-)
Poll results certainly sound like a good idea. The Sydney Morning Herald (another of the dozens of sites which are locking down soon) hold polls, and in the past they have been less than reliable (as an example, back in 2000 or 1999 they had a "what do you think of browser cookies" poll, which I answered by using their assumption on the existence of browser cookies to post 1000 votes against cookies.)
So if I typed "Mickey Mouse" in my registration details, what sort of information would they get from it? :-)
I'm hoping that in the long run, solutions like KDE's password wallet become more popular. That way when I move computers, I just copy over a single file to move all my passwords to the new location. It beats cookies anyway. Now if we could just get Firefox to use the damn wallet, I would switch from Konqueror. :-/
It's more a matter that there is no point them having my details. What do they gain?
Judging from my experiences today, I would say it's already happened. A dozen of their keys for nytimes.com didn't work.
Yeah, that too. Although thankfully the wireless broadband ISPs are starting to fill that gap. I'm actually within DSL range where I live but I'm really tempted to try wireless just to see if it lives up to the hype. :-)
Yeah, I use it on my desktop too actually. I was attempting to preempt a common troll but I guess I ended up trolling for them. :-)
It's also assuming that they actually deliver on the 200Mbps to any mere mortal. Because as noted in the article:
ADSL at 8Mbps? I wish!
...we had mirror glass.