People have to remember the crazy amount of CDs magazines gave away and the ISPs loving customized stuff. MS gave them a platform which you can even acquire new subscribers,a readily installable full browser suite with all plugins minus nagging. Firefox just reached the IE manageability level by recent ESRs.
Edge could triple the rendering engine competition and alternatives if they started it open source and open to multi platform. They tried to act like open (JavaScript) while being old MS, pre Nadella.
I bet there is a Edge developer knowing the exact cause of this bug, perhaps it was fixed but as they tied the browser updates to OS instead of store, they can't release the update to public.
I think they should question why their high end expensive software & solution providers & developers couldn't make a major customer move to HTML5 as advertised. They couldn't even move to Air which should work.
No it isn't, it is compatible and somehow similar to WebKit but not really WebKit. It requires a real paradigm shift for MS to adopt WebKit. MS says one shouldn't worry about site compatibility if it works with Apple Safari. I think it creates the confusion.
I actually like simple browsers using native OS functions and use less energy & CPU but not being open source and multi platform kills whole advantage.
Edge isn't open source, it has no developer community, no user community like Firefox who will mercilessly bash it until it goes the right direction, no incentive to be secure.
You can steal millions from Google with a basic, unpublished cookie hack as they are the largest advertising company on planet. So, they are damn careful about their code. Chromium which eventually ends up to be Chrome has its own community. Additionally, there is a huge privacy fanatic user community, developer community in Mozilla.
Edge is a browser which comes with the OS, nothing else.
They are falling into a misconception that everyone uses their computer like they do. An experienced developer will have common sense, won't use administrator account, will update their OS and won't do crazy things like typing "Watch movies free" to Google and click the very first site appearing. Most of the developers won't even change their wallpaper. So, you don't need AV if you can manage a gigantic code like Mozilla but it doesn't mean everyone is the same. Ms antivirus is a joke regarding detection rates.
Just like cellular providers in some countries, free forward of email to other domains should be mandatory for commercial/adware (yes,adware) providers.
There were the days even Hotmail was a nice, clean e-mail service. Nobody can blame anyone for sticking with decade+ old address. I know a very good, respected commercial shareware developer using his @aol.com email.
It is open source, they require community feedback and support. We are used to everything working on desktop Linux now but once upon a time every regular user had to know modprobe, arguments in/etc , chmod just to get sound from their PC on Linux. I still remember IO address and IRQ of my sound card.
I am not saying it is your fault or submit patches. Cyanogen got into this death spiral because at some point, they lost one thing that runs it. Community. Android community hates them. Just 2 years ago people purchased handsets based on Cyanogen compatibility. I heard they even bundled Trudialer as default dialer/phonebook application. Something even lamest company couldn't imagine.
Let me bluntly say it: Apple users are rich and they spend a lot of money. Apple doesn't allow anything other than WebKit on their iOS. If you put anything that doesn't work on Apple iPhone on your webpage, you will be fired.
It is like opening a restaurant which doesn't serve to millionaires.
Why doesn't Google hire that Eloston guy who is genius enough to implement such an advanced method to disable autoplay? It seems that their developers couldn't manage to do it;-)
I hate to say it but Chrome is from World's largest advertising company. That is why they are slow(!) or lazy (!) about implementing features that will make advertisers mad.
Just recently, Chrome mobile beta, not final gained the capability to play YouTube videos in background tab. That is the same browser who introduced "every tab runs in its own process" on an operating system which happily runs on 8 core handsets.
If we use& support Mozilla Firefox, it isn't because we are old fashioned. It is because of independence, at least they try.
There is an alternative which performs way better than OEM or Stock Android, Cyanogen. The issue is, other app stores (Amazon, various Chinese) does their own evil things if not switched off.
Google maps is and has always been overrated, disconnected from real World application, its walk and bicycle navigation is a joke compared to "Here" (Nokia) maps.
The only issue here is a good app store, everything else can be achieved with Cyanogen without Google Services.
You almost introduced unwanted, bundled software to the developers. Chrome doesn't count because you are supposed to be cool& nice guys? I don't think so.
Actually ARM is just starting to grow to its real potential as super computer type designs are coming out. In a field where the only showstopper is heat and energy usage...
I am sure some new crazy inventions are on their way on mobile too. You know only Atom is out, Intel didn't say anything about Pentium M for example. They just admitted they can't do cheap stuff.
They are a large player on the Internet for a long time. They have a huge stake in Yahoo Japan for example. Unlike the American "let's re invent wheel every 6 months and fail everything" one, Japanese Yahoo is a very successful business.
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Actually KDE is more like CDE which has been the standard DE on UNIX(tm)
People have to remember the crazy amount of CDs magazines gave away and the ISPs loving customized stuff. MS gave them a platform which you can even acquire new subscribers,a readily installable full browser suite with all plugins minus nagging.
Firefox just reached the IE manageability level by recent ESRs.
Edge could triple the rendering engine competition and alternatives if they started it open source and open to multi platform. They tried to act like open (JavaScript) while being old MS, pre Nadella.
I remember how much I flamed Linux for not auto mounting removable media back in 90s. Now, almost all of them does.
I bet there is a Edge developer knowing the exact cause of this bug, perhaps it was fixed but as they tied the browser updates to OS instead of store, they can't release the update to public.
Bin Laden used old school letters & used people riding donkeys to send them to communicate with his organisation.
I wonder if there is a secret book like fascism 101? Every fascist wants to ban encryption first.
Flash Player 2 was only 618 KB
http://www.oldapps.com/flash_p...
I think they should question why their high end expensive software & solution providers & developers couldn't make a major customer move to HTML5 as advertised. They couldn't even move to Air which should work.
Can't they convert their app to Adobe Air self contained "application"? It even works on Android tablets & phones that way.
That is what Oracle suggests to developers relying on embedded Java in web pages, move to Webstart.
No it isn't, it is compatible and somehow similar to WebKit but not really WebKit. It requires a real paradigm shift for MS to adopt WebKit. MS says one shouldn't worry about site compatibility if it works with Apple Safari. I think it creates the confusion.
I actually like simple browsers using native OS functions and use less energy & CPU but not being open source and multi platform kills whole advantage.
Edge isn't open source, it has no developer community, no user community like Firefox who will mercilessly bash it until it goes the right direction, no incentive to be secure.
You can steal millions from Google with a basic, unpublished cookie hack as they are the largest advertising company on planet. So, they are damn careful about their code. Chromium which eventually ends up to be Chrome has its own community. Additionally, there is a huge privacy fanatic user community, developer community in Mozilla.
Edge is a browser which comes with the OS, nothing else.
They are falling into a misconception that everyone uses their computer like they do. An experienced developer will have common sense, won't use administrator account, will update their OS and won't do crazy things like typing "Watch movies free" to Google and click the very first site appearing.
Most of the developers won't even change their wallpaper.
So, you don't need AV if you can manage a gigantic code like Mozilla but it doesn't mean everyone is the same.
Ms antivirus is a joke regarding detection rates.
Just like cellular providers in some countries, free forward of email to other domains should be mandatory for commercial/adware (yes,adware) providers.
There were the days even Hotmail was a nice, clean e-mail service. Nobody can blame anyone for sticking with decade+ old address. I know a very good, respected commercial shareware developer using his @aol.com email.
They still don't provide SSL IMAP even if you pay? I remember they declined to support even APOP back in the day.
I am paying to Fastmail guys, they even try to make (open, documented) progress on IMAP protocol.
Apologies, /. mobile always puts Firefox into some uncontrollable CPU load so subject got terrorised by autocorrect and submitted.
It is open source, they require community feedback and support. We are used to everything working on desktop Linux now but once upon a time every regular user had to know modprobe, arguments in /etc , chmod just to get sound from their PC on Linux. I still remember IO address and IRQ of my sound card.
I am not saying it is your fault or submit patches. Cyanogen got into this death spiral because at some point, they lost one thing that runs it. Community. Android community hates them. Just 2 years ago people purchased handsets based on Cyanogen compatibility. I heard they even bundled Trudialer as default dialer/phonebook application. Something even lamest company couldn't imagine.
You can also say it for metric system but in real life, they keep on using miles, feet, Fahrenheit.
Let me bluntly say it: Apple users are rich and they spend a lot of money. Apple doesn't allow anything other than WebKit on their iOS. If you put anything that doesn't work on Apple iPhone on your webpage, you will be fired.
It is like opening a restaurant which doesn't serve to millionaires.
Why doesn't Google hire that Eloston guy who is genius enough to implement such an advanced method to disable autoplay? It seems that their developers couldn't manage to do it ;-)
I hate to say it but Chrome is from World's largest advertising company. That is why they are slow(!) or lazy (!) about implementing features that will make advertisers mad.
Just recently, Chrome mobile beta, not final gained the capability to play YouTube videos in background tab. That is the same browser who introduced "every tab runs in its own process" on an operating system which happily runs on 8 core handsets.
If we use& support Mozilla Firefox, it isn't because we are old fashioned. It is because of independence, at least they try.
There is an alternative which performs way better than OEM or Stock Android, Cyanogen. The issue is, other app stores (Amazon, various Chinese) does their own evil things if not switched off.
Google maps is and has always been overrated, disconnected from real World application, its walk and bicycle navigation is a joke compared to "Here" (Nokia) maps.
The only issue here is a good app store, everything else can be achieved with Cyanogen without Google Services.
You almost introduced unwanted, bundled software to the developers. Chrome doesn't count because you are supposed to be cool& nice guys? I don't think so.
Actually ARM is just starting to grow to its real potential as super computer type designs are coming out. In a field where the only showstopper is heat and energy usage...
I am sure some new crazy inventions are on their way on mobile too. You know only Atom is out, Intel didn't say anything about Pentium M for example. They just admitted they can't do cheap stuff.
They are a large player on the Internet for a long time. They have a huge stake in Yahoo Japan for example. Unlike the American "let's re invent wheel every 6 months and fail everything" one, Japanese Yahoo is a very successful business.