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Re:The death of Firefox
on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @01:59AM (#3728028)
Also, the UI in Firefox for changing the address bar search engine is awful -- about:config, click through the warning, then find and edit keyword.URL (which is in a different format to everything else)
Re:The death of Firefox
on Monday March 19, 2012 @06:35PM (#3726670)
I think the only use for the search box now is to give people easy access to multiple (or a secondary) search engine. Sure, it's ugly, but it does give users a clear and simple way to search wikipedia for "widgets".
Chrome, on the other hand, only exposes non-Google search engines through the search engine keyword thingy, which means a user has to actually type "en.wikipedia.org widgets" into the omnibox. Sure, tab-completion will do half the work, but the user still has to remember to start typing "en." rather than, say, "wikipedia".
I know that Chrome (and, indeed, Firefox) allow you to edit those search engine keywords, but that is power-user territory, and power-users can edit their Firefox UI as well. http://i.imgur.com/mS5Ot.png
Re:The death of Firefox
on Monday March 19, 2012 @06:14PM (#3726584)
I've had a look at Google's docs[1], and it's really not clear to me what Chrome's omnibox offers that Firefox's address bar (or whatever they call it) doesn't.
Re:The death of Firefox
on Monday March 19, 2012 @05:38PM (#3726394)
Regular consumers really don't care about version numbers. They probably don't even know which version of Office they have installed, let alone their web browser.
Re:JASON, an open source joke
on Saturday March 10, 2012 @03:42AM (#3687441)
FWIW, the first line of the linked page does read
Olly, the author of OllyDbg, presents his new open source joke:
Re:Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys
on Friday March 09, 2012 @11:19AM (#3684630)
It would have been a lot more useful if the link had said how/why the ADM-3A used hjkl as cursor keys.
Re:IE9 pwn2owned with 0-day with exploit working back from IE6 to IE10...
on Friday March 09, 2012 @08:49AM (#3683999)
They even admit it's not just governments they sell to: VUPEN customers include worldwide governments and major corporations in finance, technology and manufacturing. [http://www.vupen.com/english/company.php] although their continued use of weasel words does stop just short of admitting that they're enabling industrial espionage.
Re:Apache releases first major new version of popular Web server in si...
on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @10:23AM (#3616738)
The headline is "major new version" not "new major version".
Re:Mozilla to Certificate Authorities: no subordinate CAs for traffic ...
on Saturday February 18, 2012 @02:43AM (#3606172)
I would feel a lot more confident about actual compliance if Chrome came on board with this as well.
Lodsys v2.0: Intellectual Ventures sues AT&T, T-Mo and Sprint over MMS patents
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Re:Show HN: Kerning.js — Take control of your web typography
on Monday September 19, 2011 @02:33AM (#3012584)
Search engines certainly should interpret it that way, but I think the point was to question whether they all (for someone value of "all") really do do it that way in practice.
Re:SSH Tricks
on Monday September 19, 2011 @02:25AM (#3012562)
Huh. ssh used to offer this feature natively -- just symlink any hostname to the ssh binary -- but it turns out that they removed this about ten years ago.
(I feel old...)
Re:South Korea NIS admits to "packet tapping" Gmail
on Sunday September 18, 2011 @03:41PM (#3011067)
Re:Chrome 14 released
on Friday September 16, 2011 @03:00PM (#3005798)
I prefer Chrome because its updater also includes the flash plugin, and it has its own pdf-reader plugin.
Chromium also doesn't do releases, just lots of bleeding edge snapshots, and one or two of those have been badly broken.
Re:SingleHop Are Cheats
on Friday September 16, 2011 @08:25AM (#3004153)
You've never heard of an evil genius?
Re:Google+ Platform
on Thursday September 15, 2011 @03:12PM (#3001696)
I can actually see a good argument for the API remaining read-only so that Google+ emphasises original content and doesn't just end up as a ghost-town full of content syndicated in from elsewhere and sending people off to another site to join in the real conversation.
Re:XXX TLD Officially Open
on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @05:17PM (#2971490)
The fee for Sunrise B appears to be almost the same as the annual fee for actually registering. I assume you won't have to renew, though.
Re:Michael Arrington launching venture fund
on Friday September 02, 2011 @01:38AM (#2953048)
I would have assumed that the AOL deal wouldn't allow Arrington to set up a competitor so soon.
Re:Iran forged the wrong SSL certificate
on Thursday September 01, 2011 @06:39AM (#2949422)
All vendors want market share in the Netherlands, so a few Dutch CAs get on the list; and they all want market share in China so the Chinese Ministry of Information gets on the list.
No browser wants to be the one which doesn't work with someone, somewhere's bank, so once you're on one list, you tend to get added to all of them; and it becomes nigh-on impossible for marketing reasons to remove anyone from the list ever.
15 years later, browsers have 80 CAs and 200 certificates built-in.
Re:Iran forged the wrong SSL certificate
on Thursday September 01, 2011 @04:55AM (#2949183)
We don't know that they didn't get a forged certificate for ssl.google-analytics.com.
Diginotar haven't (AFAIK) released even a partial list of affected domains, other than admitting that there were quite a lot of them.
Licensing webOS May Not Be Much of an Option for HP
Re:Europe's hottest startup capitals
on Friday August 19, 2011 @03:56AM (#2902604)
The pictures aren't representative of Tallinn as a whole, certainly not the central parts, but it is probably fair to say that it is more run-down in parts than similar cities in wealthier countries. (Remember that Estonia isn't rich -- GDP per capita is one third that of Belgium, for example.) How much you see of this obviously depends on where you live and where you go.
Best single Tallinn resource is probably In Your Pocket: http://www.inyourpocket.com/estonia/tallinn
You can pick this up cheaply in the city, download the pdf from their site for free, or get their iPhone app (also free).
Also new and interesting-looking is http://www.likealocalguide.com/tallinn
There is no great definitive online expat forum.
Also: when looking up stuff online, learn to love Chrome's built-in translation functions, and remember that it (and Google Translate) unfortunately does a better job with Russian than it does Estonian.
Re:Europe's hottest startup capitals
on Friday August 19, 2011 @03:40AM (#2902583)
dittoing these sites.
If the grand-parent wants to be central, try Vanalinn (the old town), Kesklinn (city centre), and Kadriorg.
Also remember that many buildings don't have elevators.
Re:Europe's hottest startup capitals
on Friday August 19, 2011 @03:35AM (#2902577)
7-8 months is certainly exaggerating, but 5 months is still a pretty long time to have snow on the ground.
At least the snow is white for most of this time (rather than dirty/sooty brown/grey as in many other cities), and it's less windy and humid than I'm used to in the winter (so it doesn't feel as cold as the thermometer says).
Re:HP To Apple: You Win.
on Friday August 19, 2011 @01:39AM (#2902371)
Grand-parent has slightly clumsy phrasing, but you both agree: "the lack of a monopoly is what's keeping Apple innovating"
Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad
on Thursday August 18, 2011 @04:49PM (#2900990)
patent detente
The patent trolls don't understand detente. They don't understand MAD. They're the real threat, not Apple/Microsoft/Motorola/HTC/whoever.
Re:Help, I’ve fallen into a pit of steaming Google+
on Thursday August 18, 2011 @04:46PM (#2900980)
Scoble is the tech world's version of "famous for being famous".
Re:
on Thursday August 18, 2011 @12:33PM (#2899867)
You seem to have got your own domain wrong in the submission title...
Also clickable: http://www.athirdplace.com/