... If your extension can't be converted, it doesn't have the support it truly needs.
And that shows the fundamental flaw in Mozilla pushing functionality off onto the plug-ins while boasting about the functionality supplied by the plug-ins. Mozilla apparently wants to have its cake and eat it too.
Simply put, plug-ins are not a part of the Firefox development effort. The Mozilla folk have always eschewed adding functionality because the wanted functionality can be added via plug-ins. Yet, those same Mozilla folk all but ignore the loss of functionality of those plug-ins when they release a "two-times faster" Firefox.
. The headline for this release should not be that it is two times faster, but that a very significant amount of functionality has been lost.
The speed of Firefox was not a big issue for me. It was usually "fast enough." Sometimes speed wars focus development efforts towards the wrong area. The big thing I do notice about Firefox 57 is the large loss of functionality that I used every time I browsed. Only two out of my nine plug-ins work with Firefox 57. I have not seen any viable replacements for the seven that do not work.
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I've reverted to Firefox 56.0.2. Unless the plug-in situation changes for the better, Firefox 56 will be the end of my use of Firefox.
It doesn't matter if it works, or if it is easily readable, so long as it looks "cool." That seems to be the motto of web designers nowadays. Between the low contrast text, the excessive scrolling and images for the sake of having images, the quality of the web's usability has plummeted.
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Now, you'll have to excuse me. There are some kids on my lawn I need to chase away....
Sometimes I wonder if Webalizer (web server log analyzer) has been orphaned in a manner similar to this thread's topic. Last I checked, the website (webalizer.org) is still up, but no one seems to be home.
Based upon my experience trying to edit some articles, I would tend to agree with the assessment. I've tended to stop using the convenience of Wikipedia when I try to cite references, instead digging a little deeper into the web to find material closer to the original source and unaffected by the Wikipedia hoverers.
...That would depend on the calibre of the employees' attitudes, and the work environment and culture....
Two of the three the employer has direct control over. The third, the employer has indirect control over. Hire good people. If you notice you are hiring clunkers, your hiring process needs repair.
...Usually the employers provide them with whatever passes for local currency, plus maybe dental....
Other employers will provide those benefits. Doesn't address what I mentioned.
...How can an employer make sure its remote workers aren't slacking off?...
If you tell your employees that they cannot earn your trust, why should they even try to earn your trust. If you tell your employees that you believe they won't work unless you are standing over their shoulder (actually or virtually), then why should your employees want to work?
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Your employees will do their best work when they want to work, not when they have to work.
Every day, at the end of the work day, your employees leave the building with all the knowledge they've acquired about their work. What are you doing to assure they want to come back the next day and continue working for you?
"If our site is down now, people will generally come back later,"
They don't care about quality and how it affects their customers. They think their customers have all sorts of extra time to do double work because of software errors. I have to wonder if they company takes the same lackadaisical approach to the quality of their products? ~It's OK if our products are bad, because the customers will just buy another...~
...One of those methods being to ensure that Windows 7 won't be supported with new processors....
And that is just the opening salvo with Windows. You have to know that Microsoft is not going to be getting more lax in that area. imo, the Windows subscription model is coming, and coming sooner than later.
I currently have a license for Sound Forge (originally from Sonic Factory, then Sony now some marketing company), and I'm less than impressed with the current owner of the software. They seem to be more interested in DRM than the software itself. So I'm looking to Audacity to get me out of the DRM headlock that Sound Forge places on me.
Windows 10 is still looking like a "has run" in the OS landscape. It is beginning to look as if the only way the marketshare will be increasing is through the forced bundling with new PC and corporate upgrades due to support issues with older versions, and not because Windows 10 is actually wanted.
With enhancements such as this one, are we just continuing to extend the life of the HTTP protocol, when we really should be taking it out behind the barn and putting it out of its misery?
... since the initial price cuts in August, the cost of some items have been slowly ticking back up...
Amazon buys Whole Foods and lowers the prices on some items. Amazon gets all manner of free press about the lower prices. Once the initial attention wears off, Amazon slowly raises the prices back to prior levels. This doesn't surprise me. What surprises me is that others seem to be surprised at this chain of events.
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Troll? Looks like someone didn't like me choosing to revert to an earlier version of Firefox to keep the functionality I need.
...I've reverted to Firefox 56.0.2. Unless the plug-in situation changes for the better, Firefox 56 will be the end of my use of Firefox....
Scratch that. I've reverted to Firefox 52 ESR. That should give me enough time to find a suitable replacement for Firefox.
... If your extension can't be converted, it doesn't have the support it truly needs.
And that shows the fundamental flaw in Mozilla pushing functionality off onto the plug-ins while boasting about the functionality supplied by the plug-ins. Mozilla apparently wants to have its cake and eat it too.
I have only 6,231 add-ons to choose from
I already went through the search page for add-ons. The three I searched for had no functional equivalent. Nothing even close.
The Quantum is the smallest possible increment. Always remember that when someone tells you it's a quantum leap in performance.
However, in leaps, the quantum unit is huge. That why quantum leaps are so large.
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The headline for this release should not be that it is two times faster, but that a very significant amount of functionality has been lost.
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I've reverted to Firefox 56.0.2. Unless the plug-in situation changes for the better, Firefox 56 will be the end of my use of Firefox.
It seems that every new feature carries along a vulnerability.
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Now, you'll have to excuse me. There are some kids on my lawn I need to chase away....
Thanks. That's the first signs of life I've seen in years.
Sometimes I wonder if Webalizer (web server log analyzer) has been orphaned in a manner similar to this thread's topic. Last I checked, the website (webalizer.org) is still up, but no one seems to be home.
Troll? Wow, the Wikipedia fan bois are getting to be just as bad as the Apple fan bois.
Based upon my experience trying to edit some articles, I would tend to agree with the assessment. I've tended to stop using the convenience of Wikipedia when I try to cite references, instead digging a little deeper into the web to find material closer to the original source and unaffected by the Wikipedia hoverers.
...That would depend on the calibre of the employees' attitudes, and the work environment and culture. ...
Two of the three the employer has direct control over. The third, the employer has indirect control over. Hire good people. If you notice you are hiring clunkers, your hiring process needs repair.
...Usually the employers provide them with whatever passes for local currency, plus maybe dental....
Other employers will provide those benefits. Doesn't address what I mentioned.
...How can an employer make sure its remote workers aren't slacking off?...
If you tell your employees that they cannot earn your trust, why should they even try to earn your trust. If you tell your employees that you believe they won't work unless you are standing over their shoulder (actually or virtually), then why should your employees want to work?
.
Your employees will do their best work when they want to work, not when they have to work.
Every day, at the end of the work day, your employees leave the building with all the knowledge they've acquired about their work. What are you doing to assure they want to come back the next day and continue working for you?
"If our site is down now, people will generally come back later,"
They don't care about quality and how it affects their customers. They think their customers have all sorts of extra time to do double work because of software errors. I have to wonder if they company takes the same lackadaisical approach to the quality of their products? ~It's OK if our products are bad, because the customers will just buy another...~
That's why I don't use google (and other) cloud services.
...One of those methods being to ensure that Windows 7 won't be supported with new processors. ...
And that is just the opening salvo with Windows. You have to know that Microsoft is not going to be getting more lax in that area. imo, the Windows subscription model is coming, and coming sooner than later.
I currently have a license for Sound Forge (originally from Sonic Factory, then Sony now some marketing company), and I'm less than impressed with the current owner of the software. They seem to be more interested in DRM than the software itself. So I'm looking to Audacity to get me out of the DRM headlock that Sound Forge places on me.
Windows 10 is still looking like a "has run" in the OS landscape. It is beginning to look as if the only way the marketshare will be increasing is through the forced bundling with new PC and corporate upgrades due to support issues with older versions, and not because Windows 10 is actually wanted.
... They use too many modules with too many dependencies and assume everyone has a fast internet. ...
They also assume everyone likes to read low contrast text in sunlight.
With enhancements such as this one, are we just continuing to extend the life of the HTTP protocol, when we really should be taking it out behind the barn and putting it out of its misery?
Lords of the New Church - Open Your Eyes (1982) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Amazon buys Whole Foods and lowers the prices on some items. Amazon gets all manner of free press about the lower prices. Once the initial attention wears off, Amazon slowly raises the prices back to prior levels. This doesn't surprise me. What surprises me is that others seem to be surprised at this chain of events.
... Well, drat! I guess we should all go back to using telnet... ...
On the contrary... the solution is to use encryption in a better manner. Education, not reversion, is the answer.