dgesang

> Good to see them move to chromium. One less testcase

Yay. Because staying in your comfort zone is more important than software diversity.

Writing a RSS parser is horrible - been there, done that. Everyone who had to go through that hell has my deepest compassion!

'Dropbox' and 'respect' in the same sentence - funny.

I can second that. Lightroom is indeed an awesome tool. You should really check it out if you have large amounts of images to be organized and want to bulk-optimize them. It takes some dedication to get used to the workflow and the available set of tools (many!), but it's worth it. Also, Adobe dropped the price significantly some time ago, making this great product available for a bigger audience.

I do! Why?

* I just want to save the file, not view/open it.

* I can quickly determine where I want a file to be saved.

* I can rename the file instantly.

* Some files are huge, so I rather save than view.

* Bulk-Downloading many files at once.

Just because you don't need it in your daily work flow doesn't make it obsolete for everyone else.

Try PDF-XChange Viewer.

Better start flagging JavaScript as well.

Do you really think Gmail is a replacement for Thunderbird?

Come on.

Don't be ashamed for being right.

You're right about IRC, but totally wrong about Jabber/XMPP. It's much more than a 'cute IRC'.

Edit: Oh, nevermind, I just saw you wrote 'jabbr', not 'Jabber'. See, the confusion already started. Bad product name. :)

1. The name is just fail. Jabber is well known and established. Reminds me of the Python name confusion some company started very recently. Seriously, what do people think when they name their products like that?

2. There are many Jabber OSS implementations for self-hosted chat systems, even for corporations. Why another new system?

3. Website looks awful in Opera.

Ask HN: How can this post end up on page 3 so quickly (just refreshed the page) and still have increased in value (more points)?

Or if PETA would've shown up if he'd "explained it to his dog".

> I have guns

> worried about theft when I'm not home.

Wow, true U.S. citizen's problems. I wouldn't even think about crime rates or the need to carry a gun when looking for a place to stay. Come to Europe, it's better.

> white male programmer

> And then let's fix them.

Ok, so stop with your sexists & racist stereotypes.

Excessive TortoiseHG user here. Many rather large repos with multiple branches, tags, forks, etc. All hg processes together take less than 130 MB RAM. I don't recall having any crash at all in the last few years, nor did it become unresponsive, not even on my old TP60 (2007).

TortoiseHG is pretty awesome, it has everything you could possibly need. You should try it.

True, even mail from known senders has to be dealt with care as well.

    "holy crap, this is you"

This scam could be avoided easily by checking the links actual URL before clicking on it. And even if you click and end up with some malware infected website, disabling all unnecessary and insecure browser plugins and using NoScript should be enough protection. If it's not, the restricted privileges hinder the malware from doing serious damage (e.g. rewriting/deleting system files).

I haven't used any antivirus software in years, IMHO they're just annoying and reduce performance (used to use NOD32 until 2007, loved it back then). Here is what I do instead:

  - surf the web consciously
  - do not open any email attachments from unknown senders (seriously, it's 2013, who does that anymore?)
  - do not open any URLs from unknown senders (same as above)
  - disable unnecessary browser plugins (i.e. everything but Flash)
  - use NoScript-like browser addons
  - only run executables I 'trust' (tough one, I know)
  - run executables I do not 'trust' in sandbox or VM
  - properly configured router firewall settings
  - * software firewall to monitor & block/allow incoming *and outgoing* connections (Comodo Firewall)
  - * work with a user that does not have root/admin privileges (*Power User* privileges are sufficient for daily work)

Esp. the last two points are important and unusual. This requires a certain level of knowledge about IT, computers and some common sense, though.

If I really need to check a file for malware I use webtools like http://virusscan.jotti.org

> "how poorly most people implement RSS."

^upvoted! I agree, it's horrible! Not only are the many different versions of RSS & ATOM a problem, but the freedom of putting any kind of data in any of the fields. I've seen "descriptions" in the "title" property, "images" in "links", "links" in "images", "links" as "urls", "UUID" as "ids", and so on and on and on. If it wasn't for Java ROME, I would be spending dozens of hours just making our aggregator compatible to any newsfeed our users come up with.

Stick to the standards, folks!

Yes, having the tabbar on the left is amazing in Opera, esp. with a 16:9 display. I've uploaded a screenshot for you[1] to show you my current tab list. They're grouped into tasks I'm working on atm. On the left the groups are expanded, on the right minimized.

CTRL+# are reserved for websites stored in SpeedDial. But maybe [2] helps you. I doubt that any experienced Opera user would require such a feature, because the more fluent you become with the UI the more often you swap tabs around. Instead I stored sites into the SpeedDial that I visit regularly, e.g. CTRL+7 is HN :)

[1] http://i.imgur.com/Z55rPDh.png [2] http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/go-to-a-specific-tab-using-ke...

How about Comodo Dragon[1], a free and stable Chromium based browser, with 'auto updates' ;)

[1] http://bit.ly/cjbh1z

You should try Opera as well, it's is the only browser that runs smoothly with many tabs, every other browsers fails with 25+ tabs when it comes to speed and stability. ATM I'm running 50+ tabs with 1.5 GB RAM usage. I want my browser to be open all the time and run smoothly no matter how many tabs I have open, so it can use all the memory it needs, RAM is cheap, 16GB have to be filled with something.

Reading blog posts like this makes me wonder if the author even considered using Opera at any point in his painful journey with Firefox and Chrome.

I haven't experienced any memory leaks in the last couple of months.

It is not dying. It had have around 2% market share for the last couple of years and it will stay in that region for next years. It might even get more user due to the recently announced shift to Webkit and its increasing popularity on mobile devices. Just keep using it.

If you need Chrome as a 2nd browser you should consider using any of the Chromium forks available. E.g. I use Comodo Dragon.

cheers

Please, don't swap the facts. Opera (Presto) was conform to the standard, but most web developers focused only on webkit and implemented too much browser-specific code.

15 exit nodes in the kyrgyz republic hospital area alone? Can that be correct?

Eventually, but not any time soon.

Thanks.