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by Sylos 9y ago
Annual revenue: http://fortune.com/global500/list/filtered?sector=Technology
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by Sylos 9y ago
Would have been before, too, if you had JavaScript disabled, wouldn't it? But yeah, that is interesting. They supposedly lose/lost a lot of money from that button, as it skips past their ads. Also, they are supposedly redesigning
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by Sylos 9y ago
Didn't Google even disable backspace to go back in Chrome somewhen last year? Or did they revert that again? And well, there's many keyboards out there with no right Alt, meaning that you have to use two hands to execute that shor
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by Sylos 9y ago
What's more, almost all content in Minetest is implemented as a mod with this Lua API. So, you can really do essentially anything you want. Changing a crafting recipe or what a block drops when mined, is a matter of five minutes. Don&#
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by Sylos 9y ago
Then why would they make a public announcement about it? Not like it's seen frequent updates at any point in its lifetime.
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by Sylos 9y ago
If you've gone through so many image editors on Linux, why would you choose GIMP to compare it to? That's the prime example of an image editor that aims to be like Photoshop. Just about any other image editor on Linux is easier to
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by Sylos 9y ago
Due to the way RAM works, you also always have a use for more RAM. Chrome is slowing down other programs on your system by using more RAM, so it's not using more memory in exchange for speed, it's sacrificing the speed of the rest
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by Sylos 9y ago
It is available as an option. "dom.ipc.processCount" in about:config allows you to set the maximum number of processes that it'll use. Set it to something like 1000 and it'll use a separate process for each tab (unless y
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by Sylos 9y ago
This isn't the entire source code. It's just the changes that they've made directly to Chromium. They can still bundle all kinds of closed-source stuff alongside that, just like Google does with Chrome.
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by Sylos 9y ago
That repulsion is also starting to sell, in my opinion. I had a not-so-positive opinion of Google pretty early on, but it was mostly just a what-if. What if Google with its huge databases gets breached? What if they decide to just make a fo
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by Sylos 9y ago
A ribbon-style UI will be optionally available not too long from now. You can already try it out in LibreOffice 5.3 by ticking the "Enable experimental features (may be unstable)"-checkbox in the settings under LibreOffice->Adv
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by Sylos 9y ago
There's no evidence for Mozilla having fired him. All we know is that the media was doing a witch hunt on him and he decided to step back.
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by Sylos 9y ago
browser.tabs.remote.autostart should already be default-enabled, unless your extensions aren't compatible with it. It'll tell you "disabled by add-ons" in about:support, if that's the case. And you can enable multip
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by Sylos 9y ago
Most money does still go towards developers. If I remember correctly, something like $230 million. As the other guy said, they publish their financial reports (with about a two year delay), so you can find that in there. Besides that, a few
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by Sylos 9y ago
Because they are data for analytics. Not everyone is a fan of that, especially when the URL points to the servers of a company with such a terrible privacy policy.
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by Sylos 9y ago
> At the moment I'm still tied to Chrome for bookmark sync but that's about it. You can sync bookmarks with Firefox, too. And you should be able to migrate your bookmarks just as well...
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by Sylos 10y ago
AdBlock Plus is also open-source. Same license as uBlock Origin and everything. They just haven't pissed off anyone enough to get a big fork going. Or their code just wasn't good enough, as obviously uBlock Origin is currently doi
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by Sylos 10y ago
> Though I don't understand why since Firefox mobile extensions are based off a similarly designed system (Jetpack) to Chromes. Moreover, Mozilla is currently actually switching to an extended version of Chrome's extension API
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by Sylos 10y ago
Open-source means more than just allowing others to view the source code: https://opensource.org/osd Besides that, as far as I remember that link only discloses their changes to Chromium, not everything that's part of
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by Sylos 10y ago
Open-source doesn't just mean that you can view the source code. It also means that anyone can take the source code, make changes to it and distribute their new version. This means that if an open-source project does nefarious things,
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by Sylos 10y ago
No, rewriting alone doesn't make software great. But you have to realize that all modern browser engines started out before 2000. They were not built with multi-core processors in mind, nor with GPUs, as the web was still mostly text.
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by Sylos 10y ago
Not having a dedicated GPU doesn't mean not having a GPU at all. You still have a GPU, it's just built into the same chip as your CPU and at this point in time, it takes up about half of the surface area. This silicon stays nearly
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by Sylos 10y ago
I don't know, if there's anything to it, but I once heard that Google Plus was originally not planned to be a social network and rather was supposed to be a way for celebrities and companies and such to provide additional informat
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by Sylos 10y ago
Open-source means the exact same thing as free software, there's just an ideological difference between the two. https://opensource.org/osd
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by Sylos 10y ago
No, you couldn't argue that. You'd have to overthrow the entirety of UI design since forever to be able to argue that. Not to mention that you should first read what you're responding to and then click on buttons, therefore e
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by Sylos 10y ago
He's talking about the Amazon button, not the search box integration. They do still have a referral link glued to the panel by default. But yeah, that's such a non-issue, that I don't understand either why you'd even bri
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by Sylos 10y ago
The Amazon integration in the search box isn't even a thing anymore as of 16.04 (i.e. it's now opt-in, rather than opt-out). The only thing left from the Amazon deal is that they have a referral link on the panel by default. Takes
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by Sylos 10y ago
Just compare their privacy policies. Microsoft's makes basically no exceptions for things that they may do with your data. Apple's still reads like it actually tries to outline a sane piece of software.
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by Sylos 10y ago
Well, moving to Linux is kind of too obvious to even discuss, at least on HN. I'm sure, there's a huge number of people who've already moved over to Linux, just silently reading through the comments.
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by Sylos 10y ago
> I guess that's a sign of a really unhealthy community if they have no process of getting hackers into their system so that they can get productive within 15 weeks. I don't think so. OpenBSD is known for having really high cod

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