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I did not think I was complaining about the developers - more that it turns out (in hindsight) that half the internet trusted six overworked folks to build everything they depended on. I think that some form of warning or certification for OSS projects would surface things like "OpenSSL - used in 100 million sites, total spend 4 cents a week" would at least allow people to see where there donations to

Another perhaps related one would be a culture of paying for free software (as in trusted funding routes, foundations and an expectation that users of free software at certain levels and sizes should contribute back.

Not sure how it will work but raisin the facts and figures to prominence will encourage a solution.
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The last line of the article is heart-rending: “I want to surprise everyone,” she said, “because no one is expecting anything of me.”

I have no doubt she will.
It may be the default, but the search engine is fully configurable, with no degredation in functionality.
Because Mozilla gets money from it and it is something familiar for users.

As a user who knows about "defaults" you're way ahead of everyone else and can probably figure out how to change them. For people who don't care Google is perfect.
They pay Mozilla a lot of money for the privilege?
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I do use Firefox, through inertia, but honestly it's not a good browser. It consumes 50%+ CPU constantly. It uses huge amounts of RAM. It crashes from time to time. Every few months I end up losing all my open tabs permanently. There's no isolation (process per tab). And they keep making gratuitous changes to the UI that don't improve the real UI problems but do require searching through about:config to revert them.

I would love there to be a minimal but usable browser.
I agree for the no isolation part but in term of CPU and RAM I find that chrome tends to be worse than firefox actually.

The reason I switched back to Firefox from Chrome is the Self Destructing Cookie Extension which is just great.
I believe lots of vendors offer versions of adaptive learning and testing, but I'm not sure who invented it. It seems like a useful tool, to my inexpert sense. My school has a well known program in teaching people to teach English as a second language, and my friends there speak highly of it.

But again, I am not saying the tech in the article is bad (if that's what you meant by a "well, what about this?" question), quite the opposite. I don't claim to know anything about Minerva's tech, I just don't believe the case is yet proved for its effectiveness when used with students who are at the fiftieth percentile.
This guy writes against Google world domination using Blogger. A good example of how to shoot down your credibility. But hey, he is a hacker. Looks like its out of a hackers reach to host your blog. But choose Mozilla.

By the way isnt Mozilla like 90 percent financed by Google?
As someone who switches browsers about every six months, I feel that Firefox is still quite a bit behind in terms of stability and performance. I mostly blame the single-process model, which makes crashes and hangups way more global than they should be in 2014.

On Windows, there's also the 32-bit issue. On machines with 8+ GB of RAM, having all tabs share a 2 GB address space just doesn't cut it. Especially when your addon model, one of the key features that sets Firefox apart from other browsers, eats an additional 4 MB of this limited space per tab (and that's just for one addon).[1]

Having said all that, I know that brilliant people are working on fixing this, and there have been huge improvements in the past year. And that's how I hope they'll win back users: by building a better browser, not just by appealing to open-source ideals and fear.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-plus...
That's something I miss from running Linux: there were far more minimal browser options.

- Midori http://midori-browser.org/

- GNOME Web https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web

- rekonq http://rekonq.kde.org/
Right, yet the Google, the evil tyrant, still thinks the default setting is worth paying $160m a year, accounting for over 80% of Mozilla's income.

So is using Mozilla in the interest of Google, or is it not?
It actually is most of the funding for Mozilla, at least in 2011:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/15/mozilla-releases-annual-rep...
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Can you elaborate a bit about how you've slimmed Firefox header? I am also working 24/7 on a laptop and I value my screen estate a lot so one of main reasons I dont use Firefox is that its header and tabs consume the largest amount of screen space from Chrome/Safari/Firefox trio...
And I wouldn't have as much a problem with a browser eating into my CPU/RAM is if it actually performed, but alas...
Which theme are you using in FF to make the header more compact?
Even funnier, over 80% of Mozillas income is from Google:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Google
Developers, please stop making add-ons and extensions for Google products. You accelerate Google's domination and vendor lock-in when you do.
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> "Other bad things are happening that I can't even talk about."

This may be true but it doesn't seem to do much to bolster the argument. I just want to know - what are those things?
>Otherwsie, for all we know, out Universe can be just a 3d surface of a 4d nut that a small 4d squirrel puppy is about to bite into.

absolutely. I know you are trying to portray such a scenario as incredulous, but it's entirely feasible.
So......

He had Roundup-ready wheat in his field legally.

He legally sprayed it with Roundup.

He legally collected seeds from his own wheat.

He legally planted seeds that he owned legitimately.

But it all works out to be illegal because he's a bad person? Why would whether it's OK to do something depend on whether you've done it before?
That would be which? Does the plugin send every search request made to google to the omniref servers?
Did you have a look at the implementation?
@timr could you give some more info on how you accomplish this?
Takes light 8 minutes to get from the sun to here. (To put it in perspective.)
It so much sounds like an apocalyptic cry. It has substance but the degree to which it is shown to harm is us not to be taken seriously, I believe. To be honest, Chrome is a good browser, both on desktop and mobile(at least Android). And Google does not have a hegemony on the entire Web.

EDIT - This thread is an example of 'That escalated quickly!'
I'm not necessarily in favor of this idea (though I think it would be far less harmful than the system we have now...IMO, a person should never be made worse off economically by choosing to work, and that's exactly what our current system produces), but in any case, the "people will blow the whole check and have no money left at the end of the month" argument doesn't seem like a good one to me. Any such system is almost certainly going to be card-based, not check-based. There's no reason why 1/365th of the annual amount couldn't be deposited to the card every day, rather than dropping in a big slug of cash once a month. Transaction costs would be slightly higher, but not by much (the government should be able to negotiate really, really good rates for transactions, and they're already getting pretty cheap).

Yeah, there are still going to be some people who go out and buy beer every morning. You can't fix everything. "Not perfect" isn't really an argument either, unless the person making it has a demonstrably perfect alternative.
..and theology does?
Those Land Cruiser LX Pickup trucks are expensive, even by American standards - and so bare bones for what you get - but you are right, they can handle anything!
That is funny indeed... BTW Google fund Mozilla with 300M$ every year!

...and they are competing on:
Chrome<->Firefox
Android<->Firefox OS

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/01/22/so-why-is...
That should be easy enough to work around - there is no reason police officers should be presumed innocent until proven guilty. No video that shows you didn't do it? Fine now you get 10 years + a felony. Believe me the video would always be working under this system.

You give up many rights when you e.g join the marines. You might as well have the same rule when you join the police.
I could say the exact same things about iOS apps. Or Android. Or Windows. But a bit of competition is generally good.
Personally, I use firefox nightly and i get a couple of crashes a year...

I also use chrome extensively... and i get crashes about once... a month (im not talking about tab crashes but entiere browser crash)

So im not convinced by the whole multi process thing for stability reasons. It seems like a good idea for sandboxing or "webapps" and only so IF you also have separate cookie jars, etc.

(and i trust chrome more for security)

I'd rather have 2 processes, one for the GUI, one for the tabs ;)
On what grounds? If the previous landlord gives truthful reference (i.e. no slander and nothing illegal) when asked, including the trouble they had to go through to evict you, there's nothing to sue them over.

But that information alone would be very useful input for my decision on whether to lent to you or not.
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Utterly stupid. The only reason that would make Firefox win is because it's a good piece of software, which it's currently not, especially when you compare it to chrome.
You're not going to convince the average joe with a rant like that ;)
They make great stuff but it is worrying they control everything and buy everything they don't and it feels like they're locking small businesses out of the search results these days, preferring to only link to major established sites.
Maybe there is a closed-form solution?
For I use Linux, i find these browsers cool but you wont uninstall chrome and firefox. Only chrome and firefox work for ALL sites properly...
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Multi process is coming soon, it will be enabled by default at version 35 in nightly.

I feel the same way about Firefox's performance. If it can be overcome, I'd not have a reason to touch Chrome again.
If Google really wanted to show that they are for openness and privacy, they would have moved Chrome to a not-for-profit foundation instead of owning it themselves.
Google pays Mozilla to be the default search provider.

They actually get a bunch of Google search users from that deal and they don't pay a lot for the marketshare they got for it. If anything, Google wins with that deal.
Come on people, HTML5 is winning! Another awesome and seemingly overlooked option here is ludei.com with their Cocoon platform, launcher and cloud build service. Put that together with React/Flux and some soon to be released Famous-React for flavour and its all possible. Then top it off with Webpack and your laughing.
Haha. But in Yemen being fat is sign of power and health.

(Seriously though, I have a weight problem, no way I am skinnier than you; thank the Gulf lifestyle.)
Well being state funded probably helps in that regard
I think the users would be disappointed if it was Bing or duckduckgo.
Wouldnt they?
>The exponential growth that started many decades ago has promoted a culture of extreme waste.

In fairness, I look back at what I was working on ten years ago, and I am currently writing my companies database and web front end, on my own, thanks to the layers of abstractions (scripting language, web framework, improvements in database technology). This database is able to do more than what a team of 5 could accomplish ten years ago. You can't deny that sort of efficiency is not beneficial to many (most?) organisations.
In Vimperator you can do this:

:set toolbars=nonavigation,notabs

(it will remove tabs and the navigation menu)
If the premise here is that Google is the evil empire, why is Google still on the Home Page when running Firefox?? Apparently large sums of money can have an effect on ethics.

Obviously the underlying goal here is a plea for more FF marketshare, but it's a tad hypocritical if the message is to not use services from a company you're promoting yourself. That's do as I say, not as I do type stuff.
A practical reason not to use Chrome is the chrome app store.

It's littered with garbage-ware. Outdated extensions, broken extensions and extensions with fucking ads. It seems like anything can get in and you don't know if it's broken until you test it yourself.

It's a mess. At least with Firefox addons you can expect a certain level of quality, especially with the vetted addons, and you know before you install it whether it;s likely to be compatible.
I modified an existing theme [0] and now it looks like this http://imgur.com/kkXpFHX still not pretty but it stays out of the way so I don't really care at the moment.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/littlefox-for...
I replied to the same question in another comment, just trying to avoid repeating.
Almost every other comment that have been posted so far are complaining that FF tabs are not independent processes. Let me express my contrarian opinion. For my use case FF is just excellent and has served me well, I have absolutely no complains now. There was a time when FF leaked, and held a lot of memory, that time has since passed, at least seams so.

I regularly keep several hundreds of tabs open for months on end on my PCs one a 32 bit m/c another a 64 bit both with about a Gig of RAM (one a shade below 1 Gig). Trying to do the same with Chrome has been a torture.

I have used Chrome, its pretty good, but am very happy with FF. Some people get allergic reactions when I mention keeping so many tabs open, I have commented about it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2936369#up_2936784

A few others have a snark ready, "buy some RAM", I perhaps could, but I would rather use my RAM for other purposes than clogging it with a browser (cat pictures), window manager eye candy etc. In addition, this low RAM environment has turned out to be a good filter, software written without much attention to detail or resource efficiency just doesnt run well, and thats perfectly fine with me. I like hanging out with better ones.
This is a very important point. I switched to Firefox mainly due to intertial scrolling and better fonts (Chrome looks crap till this 37 beta and needs a flag).

Extensions are more powerful on Firefox but I think they are coplicated as well. There are many popular extensions that just don't have updates on Firefox. One example is Evernote. I used it a lot on Chrome but their Firefox extension is almost 1 year old version and Chrome/Opera extensions have much better UI now. I hope this improves soon.
I don't know if pg has changed significantly, but good maps were very hard to do when I looked at them seriously 2 years ago. Few a map centric app, JavaScript maps just don't cut it in production, an native plugins just weren't available for Android.
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Yep, I can't stand having them completely gone though.
I just wanted to congratulate you. This reminds me of the good old Gopher protocol.
All those tax havens have effectively sponsoring major eu nations to be able to function. Just get France Spain Germany and UK to present them with an offer they can't refuse.

Behave or you will end up like north Cyprus
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My experience with multiple tabs has been same. In my exeprience (and I read somewhere as well), Chrome shows up UI faster, then responds after 2-3 seconds. Firefox is respnsive from start.

Multiple tab management with Panorama is much better (Chrome has a few similar extensions but don't work that well!) and I like the scrolling interfacce of multiple tabs rather than Chrome's approach of compressing everything!

Recently, Chrome has crashed more for me than Firefox and some of the extensions and features on Firefox are miles ahead.
I will use Firefox when a single tab can't cause the entire browser to pause. Until then, for better or worse, Chrome wins.

EDIT: Would much prefer Opera if it supported all my Chrome extensions.
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Chrome has Vimium, but I haven't used either enough to compare them.
On laptop, I sometimes ctrl+shift+b to hide the Chrome toolbar.
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Firefox would probably not exist anymore without Google...
I dont mean to insult you, but this looks just ugly, and the UI seems to be way too small to be used with comfort. I wonder if there's really no way to stop Firefox from wasting that space above the tabs, just like Chrome does it...
The Lords do something which no elected politician can do: look further ahead than the next election. Regardless of the exact mechanism, a functioning country NEEDS this capability.
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DC suburbs themselves aren't more expensive than SF or the Valley though in general, speaking as a recent DC transplant to the Valley. You can find a 1000 sqft 1 bedroom apartment just outside of DC and a few inside DC for about $2000 a month. Go a little further to even Fairfax and you can get a 2 bedroom one for even $1600 if you look carefully.

While I haven't lived in the Valley long enough, I'm currently paying about $2100 a month for just 700 sqft, and other places are even worse around here.

And income may be higher in some respects, but that is pretty much exclusively in the government sector or law.
What about the civil rights movement?
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You could say that about building an app or add-on for literally any product.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8151180

Prior discussion
The separate URL and search bars are the one reason I don't switch. Such a silly UI feature that feels years behind other browsers.

I know you can get rid of it, but then I have to fiddle around with about:config to get it working as I want it to out of the box. All very strange.
This is actually very true. Having Chrome/V8 out there has definitely improved the state of browsers as far as performance; especially in regards to JavaScript. But now we face a situation where Google is getting such a market share with Chrome and their other web properties where lock in is a very real possibility, and the only way to keep an open, standardized web is to make sure there are still other browsers with major market share.

I once switched from Firefox to Chrome as Firefox became bloated and drifted away from its original mission to be a light weight branch from Mozilla (the browser). Now it is much better, but I still end up using Chrome when doing front end development as the developer tools on Chrome are fantastic. I do notice lately though that Firefox is putting new emphasis on devtools.
I think what they to with the settings is actually correct. I'd say most of the users don't even think about changing the stuff you just said. Therefore it's correct to, in order to make the settings easier, remove not widely used settings.

And, as you say, it's still easy to change the settings in about:config - which is exactly targeted at people needing to change more things.
Mozilla's persistent over-promotion of the legacy technologies (HTML, JS, CSS) as the only acceptable way of web development is a very strong turn-off for me.

NaCl let's you use e.g. C# in-browser without shitty and low-performance workarounds like transpiling. I hope it will become mainstream.
I think the developer tools in the latest Firefox are absolutely fantastic. I don't think Chrome offers anything substantially better currently for frontend development.
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You should try being a member of couchsurfing ;)
I work in Cambridge, and feel that your description isn't a bug, its a feature. Great cities generally have a dynamic mix of people.
It's not strange. You might not care about or agree with the reasons behind this decision, but personally I find a concern for user privacy - don't send keystrokes to Google until and unless the user indicates that they're searching - very refreshing in this day and age.
I'd second that
I do something similar to this as I'm reading a tech book, especially on something new, I build a Q&A of 1) high-level vocabulary 2) some of the finer points that are worth remembering, like maybe language syntax. I ignore the stuff that I'd probably just look up in the future anyway.
Also Google is now testing GUI where Chrome's URL bar replaces the Google's search bar!
I love the separate boxes.

I really like that when I type the name of a local server, my browser doesn't search for it.

I also like that I can search my history and bookmarks without my keypresses being sent to google/bing.
Here's the link to the site by the way - HN doesn't seem to create a link in the description part:

http://standupmail.com
I'm based in Dublin, send me over an e-mail (in my profile) and I'll see if I know anyone :)
I agree with Paul Graham on this one.
"Has any other company grown to Google's size and remained as benevolent? (Not saying they're perfect, just the best that big.)"
(https://twitter.com/paulg/status/495948643149426688)
I'll stick with Chrome for now as I find it slightly better than firefox.
Not with a straight face.
> Google is bent on establishing platform domination unlike anything we've ever seen, even from late-1990s Microsoft.

With `bent` you mean like they're trying to build the best products people would want to use? What should they do instead, not try as hard?

> Google controls Android, which is winning; Chrome, which is winning; and key Web properties in Search, Youtube, Gmail and Docs, which are all winning.

IOTW success of a competitor is bad.
I think you've documented some of the issues on the Titan Limitations page. For us, we couldn't get Titan to work properly, which we documented in the Issue Tracker. That lead me to the conclusion that Titan was just too complex because from my perspective it's obvious that you guys are spreading yourselves too thin with the 7 different backends.

Why do you need both a BerkeleyDB and PersistIt backend? At the absolute most you should have 2 or 3. Single Machine, AP Cluster, ACID Cluster.

7 backends means 7 different database products, with the same API facade. Duh right? Well the problem is that constrains your API to a least common denominator feature set, limiting access to the unique attributes and capabilites of the underlying backend. Not to mention completely abstracting away memory/disk issues. This is a really big issue with your approach. You have some sunken costs here but I think eventually you will see the value in tightening up your focus.
Yes this is true which is even more risky for the fate of a standardized web. Right now and in the past it was very important for Google to do this for 2 reasons: 1. They get to be the default search for a huge amount of people, and 2: They support someone who was making a competing product against another company doing lock-in for their own benefit (Microsoft).

However, what if one day Google Chrome has 70%+ market share? Then the Chrome only creep will continue. You can already tell that they are doing a lot of Chrome only things on their web properties as with the nightly chrome builds you get occasional Google property only weird bugs. If Chrome had a massive market share they can then not have to bother supporting Mozilla or web standards. They can then leverage Chrome to have an advantage in performance and even monetization of Google products over others.

You can say right now Google has not done this, but they are doing small things here and there that are going down that route. Altruism is not a trait companies are known to keep for long, especially when there is no competition.
Are any startups using DataRobot for any interesting features? I would love to hear about some real world examples :)
I know what nmap is, and its not the tool I was referring to .. the entire program (a 'tool for governments') is the object of my ire.