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totfz··on Firefox desktop market share now below 9%
If you haven't used Chrome, no wonder you haven't noticed Firefox sucking. But a side-to-side speed and responsiveness comparison of Chrome and Firefox is unfair even today.
totfz··on Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10
Edge's rendering engine is good. The only real problem Edge has is that they've built it using the ugly, unresponsive Metro UI. If they build a browser with the Chromium engine and a Metro UI, they can expect nobody to use it as well.
totfz··on What makes BeOS and Haiku unique
>One of the coolest areas of package management is that you can go back in time and boot up into a previous state of the system, all thanks to the new packaging system. To do this, simply open the boot menu, choose the boot volume, and select Latest state or a nicely time stamped ‘version’. Very cool.

New versions of programs may modify the user config files in a way that old versions may not be able to read those config files anymore and even corrupt them. How is this handled, if at all?

totfz··on Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
Yes, but Mozilla will refuse to sign extensions that are not hosted in their app store.
totfz··on Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
This would not be a problem if Mozilla had sided with users for once and allowed us to install xpi extensions from outside their app store.
totfz··on Madrid bans polluting vehicles from city centre
>To be frank, it surprises me that I can go around in my car still at all. Burning diesel to move people should be banned by now, especially with the market flooding with EVs.

Do you think everybody can afford to buy a new car, especially an EV?

The reason these bans are in place is because they are necessary, and they are necessary because most cars are old because most people can't afford to switch. It's effectively a tax on the poor.

totfz··on Direct Democracy in Switzerland
White and Christian, white and Christian, and white and Christian. That's all that matters. :)
totfz··on The YouTube Premium Concept Is All but Done
I avoid using my mobile as much as I can. If I'm at home I use my computer, if I'm out I'd do anything other than watch videos on a 4" screen. I wonder if I'm alone in this.