Posts by Dan 55 16874 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
Don't get the hate for the Awesome Bar, it fishes pages out of bookmarks and history based on URLs and page titles. Better than sending everything to Google and what it finds is usually relevant as you've visited the page before or taken the trouble to bookmark it.
Well getting rid of the API that gesture addons need won't stop that, it'll just mean you're stuck with crazy page gestures without being able to define your own.
So it seems no more gestures to instantly move to the top or the bottom of the page or switch or close tabs.
Why did Mozilla lose ground? Because Google's search page pushed Chrome, they did a deal with Adobe so that Flash and Reader pushed Chrome, they did a deal with Antivirus developers to push Chrome, and they did a deal with anyone else they thought they could do a deal with to push Chrome.
Just a few million down the back of the sofa.
Settings > Updates > Never update.
Exit.
Download and install Firefox 56 from here.
Restart, hopefully your addons will be back.
From there you can choose to go to Pale Moon or Waterfox (import FF profile, copy addons, I think Waterfox has better addon compatibility) or Firefox ESR (profile not 100% compatible, backup first, if it crashes refresh Firefox and restore addons from backup as explained in the link).
I don't have many addons on the mobile version so I thought it'd probably be okay... and it turns out I'll need to find replacement addons (if they exist) for Android Text Reflow, Clean Links, Quick Gestures, and Self Destructing Cookies, i.e. everything apart from uBlock Origin.
It's got a white address bar and turns the notification bar white too, which looks terrible, and the icon design isn't particularly good either. It looks like they've lurched from a copy of Chrome to a copy of Edge.
On the other hand, on my not particularly impressive phone, it flies like shit off a shovel compared to version 56. Computers are still running Firefox ESR though, there are far more addons I can't do without there.
There are self-service machines at police stations to do card operations on e-ID cards. The police turned all the machines off then realised that older non-vulnerable cards issued prior to April 2015 could still be used with self-service machines. Only they can't turn them on again because of the newer vulnerable cards. So instead people with older cards have to book an appointment to see someone at the police station who will change the PIN for them or renew the certificate on it or whatever.
People with newer vulnerable cards will not be able to renew the certificate on it or change the PIN because the people at the police station won't let them. Also people who get brand new cards (e.g. every five years) will still get a vulnerable one and won't be given the PIN. link
And it seems people can still use vulnerable cards over the Internet, maybe because the there's one certificate to rule them all and if it's revoked then older non-vulnerable cards could stop working.
And the newer vulnerable cards also have another problem - when they are used to sign something, they don't certify the date it was signed, so the two vulnerabilities could be used together with online banking (if it supports it). link
However this will probably blow over because hardly anyone uses the e-ID feature of their ID cards, it means going to the police station anyway or spending hours persuading IE or Firefox and Java to work with a card reader and hoping it doesn't stop working if anything gets updated.
I'd like to agree, but apart from (to an extent) Buddhists and Christians
News from across the continent:
Did you hear the one about the women in Spain who reported the nun who stole her when she was a baby to the police? She got fined €43,000 for "insulting the nun" and when she couldn't pay got five months prison. She appealed to the government to pardon her and they decided not to. link (Spanish)
Never give religion a free pass. Not even Christianity.
surrounded by beautiful women all the time
A eunuch's life is hard
A eunuch's life is hard
A eunuch's life is haaaaaaaard
and nothing else
Denying the coppers is not really an option in many countries. At least they won't have rubber hoses or cigar cutters though.
- What job should I do?
- MYCA-12412: You are qualified for a job at the other side of the country.
- I can't work there.
- MYCA-93121: In order to help you along your next step down your career path, I have automatically generated and accepted your notice of resignation. You have received your P45 via email. Please hand in your badge, leave the building, and print it out later at your own cost. Have a nice day. You are now logged off.
- But, wait!
- MYCA-01213: Sorry, unknown user, you are not authorised.
UK providers for G-Cloud sprang up. Then e.g. HMRC buggered off to AWS and they went bust.
Are the CBI serious about this or do they just want to collect commission for selling Amazon and Microsoft?
Linux on the desktop has never been in better shape and LiMux was declared a success (before the elections), so it seems extremely strange to row back now.
Strange unless you realise the new mayor, MS, and Accenture have been in a "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" relationship for a good few years now. link
When the users have to face working with Windows 10, the Start Screen, and UWP, they'll be begging to go back to Linux.
I think google does a much better job than Apple personally. On 1st party devices, Google support in on par with apple, but android has a much better architecture for delivering updates. Apple need OS flash to fix a keyboard bug, Google deliver the system app via the play store, no OS update needed.
Earlier Nexus devices have stopped receiving updates whereas Apple still support devices of a similar age.
Google putting their keyboard on the App Store is only to try and get people with 2nd party phones to install their slurpboard. That obviously makes no sense with iPhones.
And as Google refuse to make AOSP Keyboard available on the Play Store, Simple Keyboard will have to do.
Android isn't insecure, it's very secure. This doesn't fit very well with the clickbaiters and anti-virus industry desperate to cash in, but it's the truth.
Android gets monthly patches, delivered in a timely manner to 1st party devices, (if you were stupid enough to buy 2nd party, or even 3rd paty device, that is not Google, nor Android's fault).
If Windows could only be updated on Surface, and OEMs took their own sweet time before sending out their own versions of those updates, and those OEM machines sold by shops who offered computers on credit held things up too by having to update their own bloatware as well before giving the go-ahead, nobody would be dare be silly enough to call Windows a secure OS. But that's what you're doing here.
An old blog post - https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-developing-firefox-add-ons/ - has some details on why the deprecation happened.
They originally said that Jetpack extensions would mostly remain but it turns out that that's not true, they later decided to throw all old extension types out. I think Mozilla's guilty of drinking its own kool aid and they'll end up losing their core users, those that wouldn't ordinarily desert Firefox for any reason because of add-ons.
Also the article says that "this change is not a surprise to Firefox extension developers. The roadmap has been published for well over a year now".
The roadmap was published but the API wasn't, that's a moving target and still will be after Firefox 57. The API call developers need to port their extension to WebExtensions might be coming soon or Mozilla might have no intention of adding it.
Two extension types are getting the chop, XUL and Jetpack, leaving only WebExtensions. That's a lot of extensions which will never get updated because Mozilla didn't manage to convince developers to migrate to a newer API with fewer features (think UWP).
I'm in no rush to update, I'll stay on Firefox ESR for a while.
as harsh as it sounds rules must be followed so if you want treatment then afterwards you will have to explain why you are here illegally.
They won't go for treatment, they'll just become a health hazard for everyone else. How does instigating a policy which could endanger other people's health even make sense?
And as for following rules, it seems the government isn't.
You will end up with a third world country if you don't have a health service anyone can trust and use.
Tuberculosis is back. Will turning the NHS into another arm of the Border Force meaning that some sick people don't go to seek medical help they need help eradicate it?
I think you know the answer to that one.
If the legendarily inept Home Office need to know about illegal immigration, they could perhaps control one of the world's easiest borders to control a little better than turn the NHS into big brother. They'll probably screw up and get the wrong people anyway.
Doctors are going start asking about sexual orientation even though it's got nothing to do with your visit next year. Where do you draw the line?
The bit at the end is the important part. It says earlier versions of MINIX were designed for education, later versions for availability, and none were designed for "military grade security".
Intel took a copy of an earlier version. The creator of MINIX hopes that Intel did security hardening on it in addition to the changes that Intel asked him to make to the source code.
And it's not the first time AMD have bailed out Intel. x64 vs Itanic.
Most new Intel initiatives die a few years later. The only thing they manage to do is keep the x86 zombie alive.
One wonders what they've been doing all this time, apart from relying on their brand name.
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