Still no comparison to the refined elegance of Qute, not to mention Qute more nearly matches IE's theme, making converting the average IE user much easier.
If you rename and change the icon for mozilla to fool people who only want to use IE into thinking it's IE, then you are lying. If you can't understand the difference between lying and statements that are slighly incorrect when interpreted literally, but have a meaning that is generally understood, then you have serious ethical problems.
I would gladly engage you in a conversation about what constitutes a lie, however there is a larger point:
Clearly you have never had to provide support to the average Internet Explorer user.
You are therefore not qualified to make any comments on the techniques employed to switch those users to a less vulnerable product.
For all of the noise that people make about how precious the network transparency of X-Windows is anytime people talk about adopting a totally different alternative, I've always been less-than-impressed that it was impossible to move a window from one X session to another or change an entire session from one $DISPLAY to another.
The Mozillazine forums were the place to lodge your concerns when the story broke on/. a week ago.
The thread went to dozens of pages of replies, including a few of my own, particularly from the point of view of an evangelist, since I often point clueless IE users to Phoenix when they've been victimized by yet another browser hijack.
The new default theme will make IE users uncomfrtable, probably to the point that they would rather try to "fix" IE. Yes, you can change the theme, but IE refugees don't have that kind of attention span.
Anyway, the thread was locked after 3 days and over 100,000 views. The response was overwhelmingly negative but Ben Goodger was not inclined to defend his "executive decision", which ultimately boiled down to a battle of egos. The author of Qute made it clear he would license his theme freely enough to be included as the default, but out hero Ben had already made up his mind and chose to fall on his own sword rather than make up with Arvid and get Qute back in.
The Mozilla devs are not accountable.
Personally, I hope someone with evangelists in mind repackages each point release of FireFox with Qute as the default theme so that I can point IE users to it.
All-In-One Mouse Gestures features tab scrolling. Hold down the right mouse button and then use your wheel to quickly page between tabs. Now you don't even have to move the mouse to the tab bar.
The only people not using mouse gestures are people who haven't tried it for a week.
Will this blunder by Goodger & Co. be the straw the broke the camel's back and cause a FireFox fork (FireFork?) to rise to prominence, a la the XFree86 story?
even silly things like what theme ships with Firefox as the default.
As stated by earlier comments, the default theme can make or break an application's acceptance by the masses.
This is no trifling matter. If Qute makes it easier for people to migrate from IE, then Qute should be used. There should be no room for ego in the process of selecting a default theme.
The URL is "mangled" for people browsing with mobile devices. The space is added so tiny displays can word wrap the text. (And also so crapflooders can't make your horizontal scroll bar appear.)
Personally I think the number of people using such browsers is probably so small that there is no justification for this "feature", but since Slashdot isn't likely to change, URLs should be submitted as proper links and not just plan text.
He's happy with kids putrefying in their bedrooms as long as it's only deliberate brutal murder they're planning, not getting to second base.
That's perverse.
No, that's reality for the truly unsocialized. I know that I'm far more likely to end up pulling a Charles Whitman than getting laid. (Which isn't to say I'm likely to pull a Whitman, just more likely.)
Playing a game where I score with women would be akin to taunting myself.
What if a lossless codec were included in the test - and it came in dead last?
That would provide useful information: either the listeners weren't up to the job or the lossy codecs at ~128 kbps were truly indistinguishable from the source material.
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From the point of view of a systems admin, I'll be honest. I look at users' email from time to time.
I dont see the big fuss here.
Then why post anonymously?
Still no comparison to the refined elegance of Qute, not to mention Qute more nearly matches IE's theme, making converting the average IE user much easier.
You'll have to copy and paste, Mozilla doesn't like slashdot linking to their bugs:
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http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248
Clearly you have never had to provide support to the average Internet Explorer user.
This disqualifies you from making comments on the techniques employed by those who do.
I would gladly engage you in a conversation about what constitutes a lie, however there is a larger point:
For all of the noise that people make about how precious the network transparency of X-Windows is anytime people talk about adopting a totally different alternative, I've always been less-than-impressed that it was impossible to move a window from one X session to another or change an entire session from one $DISPLAY to another.
Er, a parsec is a measure of distance, not speed.
First of all, you meant "distance, not time"...
Secondly,
Read this and then STFU.
So "space" is defined as what? The point where the sky disappears?
There, he joins such other legendary mechanical beings as Hal 9000...
Uhm, isn't HAL more of an electronic being than a mechanical one? Maybe I'm missing some finer points of the definition of "robot".
The Mozillazine forums were the place to lodge your concerns when the story broke on /. a week ago.
The thread went to dozens of pages of replies, including a few of my own, particularly from the point of view of an evangelist, since I often point clueless IE users to Phoenix when they've been victimized by yet another browser hijack.
The new default theme will make IE users uncomfrtable, probably to the point that they would rather try to "fix" IE. Yes, you can change the theme, but IE refugees don't have that kind of attention span.
Anyway, the thread was locked after 3 days and over 100,000 views. The response was overwhelmingly negative but Ben Goodger was not inclined to defend his "executive decision", which ultimately boiled down to a battle of egos. The author of Qute made it clear he would license his theme freely enough to be included as the default, but out hero Ben had already made up his mind and chose to fall on his own sword rather than make up with Arvid and get Qute back in.
The Mozilla devs are not accountable.
Personally, I hope someone with evangelists in mind repackages each point release of FireFox with Qute as the default theme so that I can point IE users to it.
"in the April this year"
.biz site is worthless.
Anything from a
All-In-One Mouse Gestures features tab scrolling. Hold down the right mouse button and then use your wheel to quickly page between tabs. Now you don't even have to move the mouse to the tab bar.
The only people not using mouse gestures are people who haven't tried it for a week.
Like if I did a "back" to return to the /. homepage, I'll get a message like "the page / cannot be found" or some shit.
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http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12366
It's been marked fixed, yet it still isn't.
The new theme is butt ugly.
No argument there.
He asked for the NERD connection, not the geek connection. The tagline here isn't "news for geeks".
I'll never understand why Fry's doesn't want people looking at their ads on the web, given what they sell...
CNet: Fry's shuts down frysad.com
Sadly it seems this site you refer to doesn't have info about deals for the Austin store, unless that's what "Dallas area" means...
Will this blunder by Goodger & Co. be the straw the broke the camel's back and cause a FireFox fork (FireFork?) to rise to prominence, a la the XFree86 story?
We can only hope.
even silly things like what theme ships with Firefox as the default.
As stated by earlier comments, the default theme can make or break an application's acceptance by the masses.
This is no trifling matter. If Qute makes it easier for people to migrate from IE, then Qute should be used. There should be no room for ego in the process of selecting a default theme.
Nifty, I hadn't encountered that before.
Why aren't they doing this?
The URL is "mangled" for people browsing with mobile devices. The space is added so tiny displays can word wrap the text. (And also so crapflooders can't make your horizontal scroll bar appear.)
Personally I think the number of people using such browsers is probably so small that there is no justification for this "feature", but since Slashdot isn't likely to change, URLs should be submitted as proper links and not just plan text.
How about just taking the extra 10 seconds to type in a proper link?
Comments with plain text URLs should be modded Overrated.
Sophos, in case you've forgotten, are the same bunch of asshats who asserted to the media that Linux advocates were responsible for the MyDoom worm.
You can stop modding these replies as offtopic. Anyone who doesn't care won't read this far down.
He's happy with kids putrefying in their bedrooms as long as it's only deliberate brutal murder they're planning, not getting to second base.
That's perverse.
No, that's reality for the truly unsocialized. I know that I'm far more likely to end up pulling a Charles Whitman than getting laid. (Which isn't to say I'm likely to pull a Whitman, just more likely.)
Playing a game where I score with women would be akin to taunting myself.
Bit like Whack-A-Mole, then?
Except instead of a foam covered mallet you weild a sledgehammer. The moles would stay whacked.
What if a lossless codec were included in the test - and it came in dead last?
That would provide useful information: either the listeners weren't up to the job or the lossy codecs at ~128 kbps were truly indistinguishable from the source material.