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In this day and age you're living on borrowed time using an old version of a web browser. This state of affairs has its good and bad, but your modern-day browser vendors don't typically maintain branches of old versions to make security and bug fixes (especially when they change things for security reasons, as with this case of old-style addons being removed). If you're going to insist on using an old unsupported version you have to accept the risk of things eventually breaking and the inconvenience of workarounds like the one you described.

You realize, I hope, that 56.0.2 is riddled with security holes at this point? I get the attachment to old addons, but 129 CVEs (including multiple severe memory corruption bugs) affect that version now. It's not really reasonable to expect Mozilla to keep maintaining it.

I've been using Hangouts on Firefox a fair bit recently. Video chats work fine, though I've noticed occasional glitches with the UI if I leave it open after the laptop goes to sleep. A reload fixes it, though.

Not anymore, you can't. Just about every supplier on the Internet is sold out at this point.

It's a good way to preemptively color the reader's perception of your comment. Makes you seem more reasonable and knowledgeable when you seemingly recognize the controversial nature of what you're saying, even if it isn't actually that controversial at all. It's a commonly-seen tactic on reddit.

Just tried it out; works fine.

It's not GoDaddy. My SO tried to register our family name earlier (after pre-registering for it, even!) and got a similar price.

Querying the WHOIS server for the domain says the following:

"This premium domain is available for purchase. If you would like to make an offer, please contact [email protected]."

Rightside.co is the owner of the TLD. It looks like they've set aside a bunch of common family names so they can charge "premium" prices for them. So helpful of them!

Who is the target customer here? Seems like it's probably aimed at operators of parks, venues, etc., but I'm not sure.

The US, since that is where reddit is based.

Should probably be marked in the headline that this is from 2009.

Would also like to give some props to Discworld MUD, which served as both my introduction to MUDs and to the Discworld book series. Still hanging in there, and being actively developed, almost 25 years after it was founded. It sports one of the smartest command parsers I've encountered in any MUD.

My password is illegible. It has a 0, I think, and the letter after it could be an I, L, or maybe a 1, but nothing I've tried so far works.

Definitely not ideal if I've wasted 5 minutes of my server's runtime just guessing the password.

Edit: Got it finally, 7 minutes in - a line right under the mystery letter made it look like an 'L' when it was actually an 'I'.

We can, as long as you believe these new warnings shouldn't be taken at face value. It adds a layer of doubt to the situation that wasn't there before.