Uhmmm...no. It is just natural that you realise a feature exists if you activelly seek & install it on a barebones base, if you add them incrementally. Doesn't make the whole UI great (actually, the contrary might be true since there are so many small, disconnected extension projects).
Don't confuse UI that is quick & easy to learn with one that's quick & easy to use; feature-full apps NEVER fall into the first category.
I don't know...in vast majority of cases you won't visit that site again, you don't have to whitelist it permanently - Quick Preferences/F12 is suffiecient (and not laggy under any circumstances)
As for more funcionality - disabling inline frames gets you closer I guess.
Adblock is actually better - when the list is not suffiecient, you can use nice point & click Content Blocker from context menu. The other...yeah; though that depends how you use them - I typically don't bother with micromanaging (except for sites like Youtube which have flash permanently turned on), just toggling on/off globally with quick shortcut as needed.
Fine by me - a completelly valid reason, as long as you're not one of those hypocrites who convinced themselves they need OSS browser on Windows (or when using, say, Nvidia binary blob drivers); especially when talking about software company that plays nice, and is from the area with one of the best business ethics.
...though ususally, even if only with few tabs, after some long browser usage? (at least for me) I'm not sure if it's anything more than a lot of things this dialog needs got swapped out in the meantime.
Opera has those features. You can have cookies/scripts/plugins turned off and enabling them in site preferences (or toggle them gobally on/off - it takes effect only on the side you're loading/browsing anyway). Adblock: http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/ (yeah, it's also built-in, that's just a list)
Well, there's this one little browser that is both helluva snappy and has lots of features, Opera;p (and yes, it has adblock built-in, no extension needed...you just provide it with a list http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/ )
BTW, not saying it's like that in your case, but in most cases when people say "I can't use Opera because it lacks functionality from those FF extensions"...well, it usually has it (and often the idea even originated from it...)
In case of Opera it's good to have a closer look...
Interesting how you use "trademarks" of specific add-ons, available only for one browser, not the names of their functionality... (hint: most of what you list has been copied from Opera, and everything is in it)
Hm, from my experience (when I give a chance for a ~month after every major release) FF is the only browser with built-in session restore which ISN'T PROPER (it corrupts its session file when it becomes "broken" (UI, reponsivness...) after heavy usage - btw, you do chceck its used memory after heavy usage, right? 100+ tabs? Few weeks running?)
There's a pretty easy answer to that one - use Opera. Its snappiness means it's enjoyable on older machines (even my old dual pII 266 with 192mb of ram is fine).
Probably the reason when it has quite big market share in many ex-Eastern Block countries, where PCs have much longer life. And why it's available (with basically the same engine) for smartphones for so many years / works good even on old & slow ones (and how many years do we wait for mobile Mozilla?...)
I think it can be more simple than that. Many people, at some point, start to assume that everything was better when they were young to...cope with getting old. It's their way of dealing with grief when seeing many new possibilities that current youth has, and the "festival of youth" that happens around them - dismissing them as gimmicks and/or harmful. They can't find greater value in their current/future life, so they try to not see it in those whose life will be longer.
Accidentally, I believe realizing it and that current times ARE better then ever (and will be) is a large part of "not getting old".
Again, you're talking solely in the terms of legal ownership. "Property" term is IMHO much broader, and includes also the kinds of it that aren't protected in the same way/at all. Things that require recognition by whole community, that are collectively owned, and so on...
Like natural resources/environmental impact; SUVs waste them needlessly in most cases (I don't say that they're pointless in all cases).
And luckily there aren't many SUVs where I live; people who get such ridiculousness as Hummer H2 as their main car (there is one such in my city) get rightfully laughed at (but not those with ex-military Humvee, or my buddy with Jeep Wrangler...which are actually used sensibly, even if mostly for ~recreation)
Also, read my first post - I wasn't agreeing about burning in the slightest. It's a waste. But...just like most of SUVs themselves.
Ahh, but that's painting the whole issue in legal ownership terms, not in property destruction terms (which isn't strictly the same thing)
PS. Just to make it clear - again, I don't support position of OP/burning SUVs (actually burning them didn't enter my point at all; just that their mere existence is also a pointless "destruction of property" in most cases), my post was just about small technicality/nitpick.
Not saying that I support the position of OP, but...well, if you paint it in "destroying property" categories, SUVs also fit nicely, with their pointless (with most owners) waste of resources and greater danger on the road...
What you describe is not a rule, but a rare exception - in vast majority of markets carriers limit themselves to changing wallpaper/etc.
And you're greatly downplaying the influence of carriers, even in healthy markets; you conveniently forget the "middleman" is the one that provides the service...
PS. Considering that Nokia is not that far off from >50% global market share and they are the only manufacturer of mobile phones (among those for which this is the main line of business) without financial difficulties...I'd say they have quite a lot of "sense".
Japan is for all intents and purposes a 3G country at this point though; my GSM/3G "world phone" (all four GSM freq) would work there AFAIR.
Regarding SE - it's not Sony, it's a joint venture in which Sony participates. In which the other side is Scandinavian, and they have better backbone in business ethics than most places...
And regardless...remember that Sony is not a monolith. Actually, in some ways, its various divisions work against each other (heck, they open sourced recently some pro software for movie production); so I came to conclusion that it's best to approach them on a case-by-case basis (plus they DO make most cost effective phones in large chunk of the price spectrum)
Ideally Sony should be split to not have so much conflicting interests between divisions...
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You might try sooner with something that strucks me a bit as "Mindstorm Duplo" ;) (yes, I know those aren't Duplo bricks...)
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Uhmmm...no. It is just natural that you realise a feature exists if you activelly seek & install it on a barebones base, if you add them incrementally. Doesn't make the whole UI great (actually, the contrary might be true since there are so many small, disconnected extension projects).
Don't confuse UI that is quick & easy to learn with one that's quick & easy to use; feature-full apps NEVER fall into the first category.
But you did a have a choice between Nvidia and other manufacturers...
I don't know...in vast majority of cases you won't visit that site again, you don't have to whitelist it permanently - Quick Preferences/F12 is suffiecient (and not laggy under any circumstances)
As for more funcionality - disabling inline frames gets you closer I guess.
Adblock is actually better - when the list is not suffiecient, you can use nice point & click Content Blocker from context menu. The other...yeah; though that depends how you use them - I typically don't bother with micromanaging (except for sites like Youtube which have flash permanently turned on), just toggling on/off globally with quick shortcut as needed.
Fine by me - a completelly valid reason, as long as you're not one of those hypocrites who convinced themselves they need OSS browser on Windows (or when using, say, Nvidia binary blob drivers); especially when talking about software company that plays nice, and is from the area with one of the best business ethics.
...though ususally, even if only with few tabs, after some long browser usage? (at least for me) I'm not sure if it's anything more than a lot of things this dialog needs got swapped out in the meantime.
You're really that sure the FF codebase is that very close to optimal, for what it does?...
Opera has those features. You can have cookies/scripts/plugins turned off and enabling them in site preferences (or toggle them gobally on/off - it takes effect only on the side you're loading/browsing anyway). Adblock: http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/ (yeah, it's also built-in, that's just a list)
Well, there's this one little browser that is both helluva snappy and has lots of features, Opera ;p (and yes, it has adblock built-in, no extension needed...you just provide it with a list http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/ )
BTW, not saying it's like that in your case, but in most cases when people say "I can't use Opera because it lacks functionality from those FF extensions"...well, it usually has it (and often the idea even originated from it...)
In case of Opera it's good to have a closer look...
Well, there's "Opera Turbo" to mitigate restricted bandwith...
You know, you could also use a browser that has all this plugin funcionality built-in, without relying on js, if you care about performance...
Interesting how you use "trademarks" of specific add-ons, available only for one browser, not the names of their functionality... (hint: most of what you list has been copied from Opera, and everything is in it)
Hm, from my experience (when I give a chance for a ~month after every major release) FF is the only browser with built-in session restore which ISN'T PROPER (it corrupts its session file when it becomes "broken" (UI, reponsivness...) after heavy usage - btw, you do chceck its used memory after heavy usage, right? 100+ tabs? Few weeks running?)
There's a pretty easy answer to that one - use Opera. Its snappiness means it's enjoyable on older machines (even my old dual pII 266 with 192mb of ram is fine).
Probably the reason when it has quite big market share in many ex-Eastern Block countries, where PCs have much longer life. And why it's available (with basically the same engine) for smartphones for so many years / works good even on old & slow ones (and how many years do we wait for mobile Mozilla?...)
I think it can be more simple than that. Many people, at some point, start to assume that everything was better when they were young to...cope with getting old. It's their way of dealing with grief when seeing many new possibilities that current youth has, and the "festival of youth" that happens around them - dismissing them as gimmicks and/or harmful. They can't find greater value in their current/future life, so they try to not see it in those whose life will be longer.
Accidentally, I believe realizing it and that current times ARE better then ever (and will be) is a large part of "not getting old".
Doesn't change much in how this now false statement relates to "solitary" wrong.
Again, you're talking solely in the terms of legal ownership. "Property" term is IMHO much broader, and includes also the kinds of it that aren't protected in the same way/at all. Things that require recognition by whole community, that are collectively owned, and so on...
Like natural resources/environmental impact; SUVs waste them needlessly in most cases (I don't say that they're pointless in all cases).
And luckily there aren't many SUVs where I live; people who get such ridiculousness as Hummer H2 as their main car (there is one such in my city) get rightfully laughed at (but not those with ex-military Humvee, or my buddy with Jeep Wrangler...which are actually used sensibly, even if mostly for ~recreation)
Also, read my first post - I wasn't agreeing about burning in the slightest. It's a waste. But...just like most of SUVs themselves.
"Two wrongs don't make a right" doesn't make in any way "one wrong" acceptable.
I wouldn't necessarily agree...low-end card from current generation with solid performance would have much lower energy consumption.
Ahh, but that's painting the whole issue in legal ownership terms, not in property destruction terms (which isn't strictly the same thing)
PS. Just to make it clear - again, I don't support position of OP/burning SUVs (actually burning them didn't enter my point at all; just that their mere existence is also a pointless "destruction of property" in most cases), my post was just about small technicality/nitpick.
Not saying that I support the position of OP, but...well, if you paint it in "destroying property" categories, SUVs also fit nicely, with their pointless (with most owners) waste of resources and greater danger on the road...
What you describe is not a rule, but a rare exception - in vast majority of markets carriers limit themselves to changing wallpaper/etc.
And you're greatly downplaying the influence of carriers, even in healthy markets; you conveniently forget the "middleman" is the one that provides the service...
PS. Considering that Nokia is not that far off from >50% global market share and they are the only manufacturer of mobile phones (among those for which this is the main line of business) without financial difficulties...I'd say they have quite a lot of "sense".
Japan is for all intents and purposes a 3G country at this point though; my GSM/3G "world phone" (all four GSM freq) would work there AFAIR.
Regarding SE - it's not Sony, it's a joint venture in which Sony participates. In which the other side is Scandinavian, and they have better backbone in business ethics than most places...
And regardless...remember that Sony is not a monolith. Actually, in some ways, its various divisions work against each other (heck, they open sourced recently some pro software for movie production); so I came to conclusion that it's best to approach them on a case-by-case basis (plus they DO make most cost effective phones in large chunk of the price spectrum)
Ideally Sony should be split to not have so much conflicting interests between divisions...