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Comment · 9 years ago
Please accept my sincerest thanks.
Comment · 9 years ago
Ah, well, the default that comes on the distro was the culprit there. Fixed now. Thanks!
Comment · 9 years ago
GitHub already deals with a window of half screenwidth poorly, as in requiring horizontal scrolling to see things. That's what I meant.
Comment · 9 years ago
But I also need the horizontal space! I very often tile windows side by side to allow developing while seeing the results, or while reading documentation.

Maybe I'm just picky. I don't know. Chrome does the job pretty well though, even with the bookmarks bar turned on.

A vertical tabs bar would make it impossible to use many sites, like GitHub.

Comment · 9 years ago
Ah, well, when you Google for "smaller firefox [interface/menus]" you just get results like:

"How to make the menus in Firefox larger" (no thanks)

"How to install a compact theme in Firefox" (which doesn't really help)

Thanks though! Between your response and notes on how much more responsive the new FF is, I'll give it yet another shot. :)

Comment · 9 years ago
Manjaro Cinnamon. I love everything else about it.
Comment · 9 years ago
I find curated lists better for exploration than search, but perhaps I just lost my ability to search whimsically. To each their own I guess.
Comment · 9 years ago
I guess it's just Linux then. Ah well, I hope you enjoy it anyway. I'm still going to donate to Mozilla at the end of the year. If nothing else, competition is great and their documentation is amazing.
Comment · 9 years ago
Thanks! Hadn't tried on Windows.
Comment · 9 years ago
Maybe these are silly things to complain about with fellow techies, but the things that prevent me from switching to Firefox:

The menu bars are enormous even on a compact theme. Bigger than on Chrome. I only have so much vertical space to spare.

When opening a new window, the address bar isn't the first thing to receive focus, unlike on Chrome. With Chrome, I just bang out WINKEY + C + H + R + ENTER + part of query + ENTER and I'm pretty much there

Comment · 9 years ago
Now if only people would stop using `@here` for every little thing, it'd be easier to separate "blue" notifications from "red" and Slack would actually be the perfect model of async communication. I could prioritize whether to pull myself from my current task to look or not.

Doesn't work when people just write "@here, making nachoes" all day.

`@here` should really be yellow. Only direct communications red. Or something other than the current system.

Comment · 9 years ago
And yet what I struggle most with is identifying who, if anyone, benefits from this. Who, if anyone, controls this.

Or is it all just chaotic feedback?

Comment · 9 years ago
This new flavor of conservatism is so strange in light of how bound to free market ideals most flavors of conservatism are.

In general, I really quite dislike Conservative/Liberal labels as political stances are not two-dimensional, but rather multidimensional. Parties are loose alliances of disparate groups. And somehow there's this rising contingent of neocons, who also happen to dislike SpaceX.

Does anyone understand this?

Edit: I want to clarify that the alternative to private enterprise competing for government contracts (usually military, again usually a conservative delight) is direct government sponsorship, i.e. NASA.

SpaceX is one of those cases where the free market actually has been more effective. So why not seize on it?

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