Now click Edit -> Extensions and select an extension. Right click and "Visit Home Page". Assuming you don't have an extension to prevent this, you just opened a new window. The same occurs with the themes listing and the "Get more extensions/themes" links.
Touché. And to be honest, I didn't really notice that. But I have to add that I think the reason it wasn't that noticeable to me is that it's pretty minor in the scheme of things. I click dozens of links that are forced to open in FF tabs every day, but I might go looking for a new extension or theme once every couple of months. So I'll concede your point but it seems like a minor thing, and while ideally it should be built in, it is easily extensible to have the desired behavior. Fair?:)
FF1.5 Edit -> Preferences -> Tabs. Change "Open links in other apps" to "A new tab." Check "Force links that open in new windows" and select "to open in a new tab." Click "Close." Problem solved.
Don't slam something if you don't know how to use it.
Yeah, the very first thing I thought to myself was, Never mind the response time to patch it, how long have the black hats been quietly harvesting root passwords before this problem went public?? I mean, it's been out since October, and they're about to release the next version already. How many production servers with sensitive data have been quietly compromised by those in the know?
The day before all this came out, I'd just been explaining to a fellow Linux user at a LUG meet, why I feel K/Ubuntu is not polished enough. It turns out, you see, that when I went to install a newer version of the Madwifi (Atheros wireless) driver on Kubuntu 5.10, I spent many fruitless and frustrating hours just trying to get it past make. Funny, it worked just fine on SUSE. ??? So a whole lot of picking through information on the web led me to discover that the kernel for K/Ubuntu 5.10 is compiled by default with gcc 3.4...but the version of gcc installed for you by default is 4.0. So of course you're going to have problems the first time you try to compile anything! You have to hack a configuration file to force it to use gcc 3.4 and then it works just great. Well, what kind of mickey mouse operation do they have running over there, I asked myself, if things are guaranteed to screw up with the default configuration they give you?
And now this??
These are serious screwups. I, for one, won't be touching K/Ubuntu for a long time. I just don't trust it any more.
I'm as much of an enthusiast as any. I take every opportunity to slam M$'s products and business practices whenever I feel it's deserved (which is a whole hell of a lot). I am posting this from Linux, and I don't work for or have any other vested interest in any other distro. I'm someone that just wants a secure, stable, polished OS that I can count on to work. And right now, it's obvious to me that K/Ubuntu is not it.
As a woman who majored in electronics, has worked in the IT and electronics fields for 11+ years, and prefers Linux, I can vouch for this. I am so sick of being treated like a brainless handservant, relegated to the back row instead of being invited to participate like everyone else, referred to as a sex object, called a "girl," patted on the head, patronized, and treated like I'm just there to get a date, all just by virtue of being female.
Look, guys, if you want women at LUGs, or in any other technology arena, treat us with the respect you would show any male Linux user. We're not here for your amusement, titillation, romantic interest or magnanimous patronization. Take us seriously. And if you start treating ALL women with that same respect, not only will you make some awesome friends on equal ground, you'll no doubt find your dating life in better shape too.
It's crap treatment like this which has often forced us to form our own groups such as linuxchix.org and witi.com . Where are all the women Linux users, IT workers, engineers, technologists, scientists, and technicians? We are where we can be respected, taken seriously, be involved, and have our questions and needs addressed. If that's not your group, then we won't be there. Simple!
Of course it's hypocritical. But if that's really the world view you hold, then you can't really come out and say that. Who's going to go along? You lose the entire flyover/hick voter base, and you're left with nothing except the predatory millionaire class.
True. And since the latter only makes up about 1/2 of 1% of the population, that flyover/hick voter base is very important.
It's not blatantly lying - it's just using potent, ambiguous words because clear and concise ones will leave your position in the gutter where it belongs.
Well, most people like to think they're good people, whether it's true or not. A phrase like "smaller government" is going to be much more palatable than "let the corporations victimize and pillage the poor and weak; it's cheaper because they can't defend themselves." (And it has the added bonus of being much easier to say.)
Also, a little (okay, a LOT) of blind self-congratulating patriotism can do wonders to distract and amuse the public while you systematically strip away their constitutional rights. Why change something that works?
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Now click Edit -> Extensions and select an extension. Right click and "Visit Home Page". Assuming you don't have an extension to prevent this, you just opened a new window. The same occurs with the themes listing and the "Get more extensions/themes" links.
Touché. And to be honest, I didn't really notice that. But I have to add that I think the reason it wasn't that noticeable to me is that it's pretty minor in the scheme of things. I click dozens of links that are forced to open in FF tabs every day, but I might go looking for a new extension or theme once every couple of months. So I'll concede your point but it seems like a minor thing, and while ideally it should be built in, it is easily extensible to have the desired behavior. Fair? :)
Not true.
FF1.5 Edit -> Preferences -> Tabs. Change "Open links in other apps" to "A new tab." Check "Force links that open in new windows" and select "to open in a new tab." Click "Close." Problem solved.
Don't slam something if you don't know how to use it.
Yeah, the very first thing I thought to myself was, Never mind the response time to patch it, how long have the black hats been quietly harvesting root passwords before this problem went public?? I mean, it's been out since October, and they're about to release the next version already. How many production servers with sensitive data have been quietly compromised by those in the know?
The day before all this came out, I'd just been explaining to a fellow Linux user at a LUG meet, why I feel K/Ubuntu is not polished enough. It turns out, you see, that when I went to install a newer version of the Madwifi (Atheros wireless) driver on Kubuntu 5.10, I spent many fruitless and frustrating hours just trying to get it past make. Funny, it worked just fine on SUSE. ??? So a whole lot of picking through information on the web led me to discover that the kernel for K/Ubuntu 5.10 is compiled by default with gcc 3.4 ...but the version of gcc installed for you by default is 4.0. So of course you're going to have problems the first time you try to compile anything! You have to hack a configuration file to force it to use gcc 3.4 and then it works just great. Well, what kind of mickey mouse operation do they have running over there, I asked myself, if things are guaranteed to screw up with the default configuration they give you?
And now this??
These are serious screwups. I, for one, won't be touching K/Ubuntu for a long time. I just don't trust it any more.
I'm as much of an enthusiast as any. I take every opportunity to slam M$'s products and business practices whenever I feel it's deserved (which is a whole hell of a lot). I am posting this from Linux, and I don't work for or have any other vested interest in any other distro. I'm someone that just wants a secure, stable, polished OS that I can count on to work. And right now, it's obvious to me that K/Ubuntu is not it.
As a woman who majored in electronics, has worked in the IT and electronics fields for 11+ years, and prefers Linux, I can vouch for this. I am so sick of being treated like a brainless handservant, relegated to the back row instead of being invited to participate like everyone else, referred to as a sex object, called a "girl," patted on the head, patronized, and treated like I'm just there to get a date, all just by virtue of being female.
Look, guys, if you want women at LUGs, or in any other technology arena, treat us with the respect you would show any male Linux user. We're not here for your amusement, titillation, romantic interest or magnanimous patronization. Take us seriously. And if you start treating ALL women with that same respect, not only will you make some awesome friends on equal ground, you'll no doubt find your dating life in better shape too.
It's crap treatment like this which has often forced us to form our own groups such as linuxchix.org and witi.com . Where are all the women Linux users, IT workers, engineers, technologists, scientists, and technicians? We are where we can be respected, taken seriously, be involved, and have our questions and needs addressed. If that's not your group, then we won't be there. Simple!
Of course it's hypocritical. But if that's really the world view you hold, then you can't really come out and say that. Who's going to go along? You lose the entire flyover/hick voter base, and you're left with nothing except the predatory millionaire class.
True. And since the latter only makes up about 1/2 of 1% of the population, that flyover/hick voter base is very important.
It's not blatantly lying - it's just using potent, ambiguous words because clear and concise ones will leave your position in the gutter where it belongs.
Well, most people like to think they're good people, whether it's true or not. A phrase like "smaller government" is going to be much more palatable than "let the corporations victimize and pillage the poor and weak; it's cheaper because they can't defend themselves." (And it has the added bonus of being much easier to say.)
Also, a little (okay, a LOT) of blind self-congratulating patriotism can do wonders to distract and amuse the public while you systematically strip away their constitutional rights. Why change something that works?