It seems that using whatever young people are using is sufficient merit for you. Your father has to be wrong because (the only factual statement in your posting) is 70 years old.
Not that I care to defend Firefox anymore, but wouldn't it be refreshing for you to face your own age and accept the fact that time passes and you should stop worrying about it ?
I don't care about EME. People like me call Mozilla a traitor to their declared ideology for sacking Brendan Eich, for refusing to listen to their users on issues such as Compatibility or the Interface, and for deeply embedding Google into their defaults.
Personally 56 is the end of the Firefox line for me. I completely reject the horrible Australis interface and the push towards the gimped and incapable Chrome-style Web Extensions. Firefox had a good run, but its Chromification is now complete and there's little reason to continue using it.
Same here, even though I didn't have a problem with Australis, so I'll stick with ESR for a few months and then move to Pale Moon. There's an Adblock Plus XUL-based fork for Pale Moon, so everything is ready for the move.
From my experience: you might get used to tolerating it but a bad keyboard is a bad keyboard, especially when it has a terrible layout. In such a case it will always be an annoyance to work with.
The Thinkpad 25 seems to be the only acceptable option for a programmer's keyboard right now.
I tried to switch to Libreoffice but then I discovered a that paragraph borders look terrible. Filed a bug and they responded with some jargon about not being their fault but rather "Cairo" is the one to blame, and they set it to FIXED. Whatever. Still their text borders look like a joke and anyone can test my claims, just type some text, select it, create a thick border around it and look how it appears awful and prints with jaggies on the edges.
AOO works for me. I've been using Writer and Calc for many years without any issues.
They are states, focused on the well being of their citizens and not the truth. Of course they are lying when they have to, just as Russia and everyone else.
the owner who is/was KGB
You mean the Soviet Union ?
and other executives who are FSB at Kaspersky are an exception to the rule that once you are in that world, you never leave that world, and that when you give a program where you give the providers of the program the keys to the kingdom, that given the background of th eactors, that they won't exploit what you gave them permission to exploit?
Yes, and thankfully their FUD doesn't work anymore.
Kaspersky is popular because it wins at independent tests run by experts. The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and their parrots should either hire some real security experts, people who can understand low level code, or simply keep being laughable.
If they believe that Kaspersky is trying to access sensitive information and send anything related to it through the Internet, they should prove it through its function, not because a spy told you so. Such as Kaspersky dealing with Stuxnet on a technical level instead of silly stories about espionage.
Slashdot Mirror
You mean that about:mozilla ?
It's not independent.
You clearly don't know what you are talking about, but if you did you wouldn't be shilling for Mozilla.
XUL is a great design that has given us top quality browser addons.
He didn't say that you have an association with Mozilla, but rather that you are shilling like a Mozillian.
I can confirm that. You are trolling for Mozilla.
OK thanks. I'll definitely try this one.
The Mozillian is trying to understand my point.
Mozillians are not to be taken seriously.
I'm done with Mozilla; although I'm currently on ESR, in a few months I'll be switching to Pale Moon or Brave or Otter Browser.
It seems that using whatever young people are using is sufficient merit for you. Your father has to be wrong because (the only factual statement in your posting) is 70 years old.
Not that I care to defend Firefox anymore, but wouldn't it be refreshing for you to face your own age and accept the fact that time passes and you should stop worrying about it ?
That seems interesting. Does it give you any compatibility headaches ?
I don't care about EME. People like me call Mozilla a traitor to their declared ideology for sacking Brendan Eich, for refusing to listen to their users on issues such as Compatibility or the Interface, and for deeply embedding Google into their defaults.
It was only a couple days ago when Firefox was quoting Vogue Culture News for this:
Whatever Mozilla. Keep pretending the "champion of the Internet", it's part of your act.
A Mozillian moderator, no problem just ignore them. In a couple of weeks we'll see who's right, us or them.
Sad but true. Of course the Mozillian solution of "doesn't matter, just be happy" works with the former issue. The latter though...
It's just your Mozillian mentality that 57 should be praised whereas it might be the end of Firefox.
Just browsed over 20 #NewFirefox tweets and I haven't found a single praising tweet that wasn't posted by a Mozillian. That's shameful and sad.
The author of Adblock Plus stated that the significant changes introduced here are unfortunate but sadly unavoidable. Thankfully Adblock Latitude, ABP's fork for Pale Moon doesn't have to apply such unfortunate changes.
Same here, even though I didn't have a problem with Australis, so I'll stick with ESR for a few months and then move to Pale Moon. There's an Adblock Plus XUL-based fork for Pale Moon, so everything is ready for the move.
From my experience: you might get used to tolerating it but a bad keyboard is a bad keyboard, especially when it has a terrible layout. In such a case it will always be an annoyance to work with.
The Thinkpad 25 seems to be the only acceptable option for a programmer's keyboard right now.
The Wikileaks source could have sold those secrets to the highest bidder. Would that make you feel more secure instead ?
I tried to switch to Libreoffice but then I discovered a that paragraph borders look terrible. Filed a bug and they responded with some jargon about not being their fault but rather "Cairo" is the one to blame, and they set it to FIXED. Whatever. Still their text borders look like a joke and anyone can test my claims, just type some text, select it, create a thick border around it and look how it appears awful and prints with jaggies on the edges.
AOO works for me. I've been using Writer and Calc for many years without any issues.
That Israel is lying, the USA is lying
They are states, focused on the well being of their citizens and not the truth. Of course they are lying when they have to, just as Russia and everyone else.
the owner who is/was KGB
You mean the Soviet Union ?
and other executives who are FSB at Kaspersky are an exception to the rule that once you are in that world, you never leave that world, and that when you give a program where you give the providers of the program the keys to the kingdom, that given the background of th eactors, that they won't exploit what you gave them permission to exploit?
All it takes is a couple of seconds to find their response to your absurd statement. Have a nice day :-)
Yes, and thankfully their FUD doesn't work anymore.
Kaspersky is popular because it wins at independent tests run by experts. The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and their parrots should either hire some real security experts, people who can understand low level code, or simply keep being laughable.
If they believe that Kaspersky is trying to access sensitive information and send anything related to it through the Internet, they should prove it through its function, not because a spy told you so. Such as Kaspersky dealing with Stuxnet on a technical level instead of silly stories about espionage.
Anyone who isn't OK being infested by the likes of Stuxnet.