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wake up sheeple, the fox is coming why does my phone recognize the word sheeple?
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The Management posted:wake up sheeple, the fox is coming what is "words not to put in the google box"?
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Jan 21, 2020 03:48
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Gazpacho posted:remind me what firefox's unique end-user value proposition was at any point in the past? At one time it was the stripped-down lightweight browser that didn't have all those worthless features that bloated IE. Then over time people realized they wanted those features after all. And then they hired UX people who couldn't stop loving with the interface, and here we are.
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Jan 21, 2020 04:37
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akadajet posted:
wake me up inside
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Jan 21, 2020 04:37
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akadajet posted:
lamers rise up
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Jan 21, 2020 05:00
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akadajet posted:
we live in an internet society
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Jan 21, 2020 05:06
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The Beast adopted new raiment and studied the ways of Time and Space and Light and the Flow of energy through the Universe. From its studies, the Beast fashioned new structures from oxidised metal and proclaimed their glories. And the Beast’s followers rejoiced, finding renewed purpose in these teachings. from The Book of Mozilla, 11:14
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Jan 21, 2020 06:34
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Presto posted:At one time it was the stripped-down lightweight browser that didn't have all those worthless features that bloated IE. lol phoenix/firefox had lots of upsides, but it was never *lighter* than ie. it was a brutally cut down version of the gigantic festering mass of xul that was mozilla, and that cutting was just barely enough to make it runnable on high-end hardware.
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Jan 21, 2020 09:33
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lol if your browser doesnt include an irc client and wysiwyg html editor and a splash screen for when you're waiting for it to launch 
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Jan 21, 2020 10:31
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i remember faster startup times being a specific selling point of
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Jan 21, 2020 10:32
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Progressive JPEG posted:i remember faster startup times being a specific selling point of faster than the minutes of the then-current mozilla milestones yeah. you could also get into some fine slashdot arguments about how ackchyually firefox was very fast to start and ie only beat it because of highly immoral windows integration trickery to not incite something stupid: firefox was still great and improved greatly on both mozilla and ie, in that it was lighter than the former and had more modern features than the latter. Cybernetic Vermin fucked around with this message at 11:08 on Jan 21, 2020 |
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Jan 21, 2020 11:06
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akadajet posted:It was called Pheonix, and when it came out it was lightyears faster than IE was at the time. Then the people who made BIOS chips got all pissy and they changed their name to Firebird. Then Pontiac got all pissy and they changed their name to Firefox and made a logo of a fox yiffing the Earth. They've been an organization of furries from that point on. Pretty sure they change their name from Firebird because of the database software Firebird, not because of Pontiac. Edit: Already mentioned by the Management
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Jan 21, 2020 11:58
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so is the joke that everyone is deliberately ignoring apps/extensions or did everyone genuinely forget that used to be a big deal? or am i the idiot hellfucker?
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Jan 21, 2020 14:31
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PIZZA.BAT posted:so is the joke that everyone is deliberately ignoring apps/extensions or did everyone genuinely forget that used to be a big deal? or am i the idiot hellfucker? i mean, that *eventually* became a thing, but day 1 obviously firefox not only had a lot fewer plugins/extensions than ie, but it also kneecapped a bunch of the xul/xbl stuff in mozilla, so it was itself seen as abandoning the glorious webtech-as-a-rich-application future.
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Jan 21, 2020 14:52
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Firefox had two things going for it 1. tabs 2. popup blocker eventually extensions and ad blockers made it even better, but remember that the 2000-era web was full of horrible popups that IE would happily throw in your face
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Jan 21, 2020 15:45
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The Management posted:Firefox had two things going for it 
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Jan 21, 2020 15:53
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The Management posted:Firefox had two things going for it it also helped that all the freeware targeted IE for its "addon bars" so firefox was free of that
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Jan 21, 2020 15:54
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The Management posted:Firefox had two things going for it I still see popunders occasionally. It's strange that browsers still support that kind of stuff.
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Jan 21, 2020 15:57
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The Management posted:Firefox had two things going for it lol I remember installing a stand-alone pop up blocker program for IE then I discovered opera 
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Jan 21, 2020 16:17
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remember when ie finally got tabs in version 7 but the absolute madmen at microsoft put the tabs at the top of the window, above the address bar, and all we technically sophisticated people just laughed and laughed until they changed it? 
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Jan 21, 2020 16:30
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merging the address and search fields was a mistake
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Jan 21, 2020 16:33
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Soricidus posted:well I’m still not going to use the browser made by the surveillance company, the browser that doesn’t run on most of my computers, or the browser made by the attention marble company, so I guess I’ll stick with the dying ’fox to the end post the attention economy post
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Jan 21, 2020 16:34
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:remember when ie finally got tabs in version 7 but the absolute madmen at microsoft put the tabs at the top of the window, above the address bar, and all we technically sophisticated people just laughed and laughed until they changed it? no, but I remember when safari had top tabs in a beta release a few years ago and it was great. I knew the safari program manager and asked her to bring them back but she said “they” wouldn’t let her do it.
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Jan 21, 2020 16:37
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The Management posted:eventually extensions and ad blockers made it even better, but remember that the 2000-era web was full of horrible popups that IE would happily throw in your face enter shaggar stage left
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Jan 21, 2020 21:07
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Jenny Agutter posted:merging the address and search fields was a mistake
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Jan 21, 2020 21:17
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The Management posted:Firefox had two things going for it tabs were incredible. I was so sick of right clicking and selecting new window in IE6
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Jan 22, 2020 09:28
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my stepdads beer posted:tabs were incredible. I was so sick of right clicking and selecting new window in IE6 shift+click did it too iirc
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Jan 22, 2020 13:11
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theadder posted:enter shaggar stage left exit, stage right wing even 
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Jan 22, 2020 13:26
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Lots of windows users self owning in this thread.
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Jan 22, 2020 14:28
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I remember using some hacky shell extension back in the IE days that would add tabs, popup blocking and other advanced features. But can't remember what it's name was; basically K-Meleon, but for IE.
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Jan 22, 2020 14:51
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Firefox is the least bad current browser so I kinda hope we don't end up living in a world that's only lovely webkit browsers
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Jan 22, 2020 15:01
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Lambert posted:I remember using some hacky shell extension back in the IE days that would add tabs, popup blocking and other advanced features. But can't remember what it's name was; basically K-Meleon, but for IE.
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Jan 22, 2020 18:33
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Laslow posted:there was maxthon, it was a trident based browser with all that. Yep, it was Maxthon. Thanks!
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Jan 22, 2020 18:39
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i preferred opera, but i used firefox for the extensions
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Jan 22, 2020 22:48
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BONGHITZ posted:i used firefox for the extensions this seems oddly familiar
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Jan 22, 2020 23:31
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BONGHITZ posted:i preferred opera, but i used firefox for the extensions I read it for the articles
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Feb 18, 2020 01:02
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Sweevo posted:firefox is the least bad browser and cutting a 1/3rd of the competition and the only part of the competition to give a poo poo about end users is bad like, imagine a superior world where cyrix kept AMD and Intel in check
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Feb 22, 2020 22:10
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:lamers rise up lol Jenny Agutter posted:merging the address and search fields was a mistake the greatest mistake the world ever knew separate fields is for computer nerds alone. no one else gives a poo poo. u type u get u happy O K
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Feb 23, 2020 09:43
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personally i cant wait for mozilla and safari to die so that every browser is based on an advertising companies browser. I'm honestly not sure which is worse. Windows when IE was 80% of market share, at least they were only using it to force their operating systems on people.
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I think I'm okay with two bad browsers disappearing.
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