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Comment · 7 years ago
Chrome attacking the privacy and the choice of its users has been happening for years now. And Firefox keeps dying.
Comment · 7 years ago
Firefox is sitting at 8.3% quota in NA and dwindling. It's reasonable not to support it.
Comment · 7 years ago
It felt sluggish because they were forced to use the Metro UI toolkit. Had they used Win32, it would have blown Firefox and maybe Chrome out of the water.
Comment · 7 years ago
Hiding your face in public can be made illegal. This is literally not an issue.
Comment · 7 years ago
I've been using LTSC/LTSB for years. What's wrong with it?
Comment · 7 years ago
See, your comment is the typical comment of someone who comes from macOS. The angry posts come from people who've been using Windows since forever.
Comment · 7 years ago
addons.mozilla.org also contains Google Analytics. And since addons are not allowed to act on addons.mozilla.org, you have no choice but to ping Google every time you load a page there.

Mozilla is either stupid or ill-intentioned. It's 2019 so they've lost the benefit of the doubt for me.

Comment · 7 years ago
If I had billions in the bank and you gave detailed instructions on how to pick up the breadcrumbs I leave on the table of a restaurant, I wouldn't give a shit. But if they care so much they are welcome to break into my house and take my computer
Comment · 7 years ago
It does not have Win32 or DirectX, for starters
Comment · 7 years ago
That one hasn't gone offline in years, so I've never thought of this. Perhaps you are right, but I assume that it should be easy enough to find new ones if you need them. I wouldn't consider this approach to be "high maintenance".
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Comment · 7 years ago
A native executable? It's not like the Nintendo 64 was using DirectX
Comment · 7 years ago
Why can't a GPU power a computer?

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