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mbitca

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    Comment #6355555

    It's there, just not out in the open. 1. Go to a web page 2. Click the "tabs" button in the bottom right corner 3. Press the "i" icon on the tab 4. Press the security circle for ev…

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    Comment #5971994

    And you got a full page reload for your troubles. That was the point. Had you enabled js, you'd get the better user experience, by not having to do that roundtrip. You might not ca…

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    Comment #5971487

    JS isn't there to replace hypermedia. It's there to give you a better user experience by augmenting what plain hypermedia can do. You can argue that many authors are doing a bad jo…

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    Comment #5216461

    They did give their users those tools. Site prefs have been a feature of Opera for a decade or so.

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    Comment #5212258

    Doubt it. Unlike Opera, Mozilla is a non-profit. There're not shareholders pushing for higher profits, regardless of consequences.

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    Comment #4395673

    > A dollar at the margin for a person with a $600 phone on a $50/mo data contract is not an enormous gamble It's not a big economic gamble, but there are good chances of getting sc…

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    Comment #4355001

    While I agree they don't particularly play nice with the community, they do still let people download the raw data for non-commercial use at least. Not that they promote that fact …

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    Comment #3755672

    There is a mymediadb plugin for xbmc that does this. Can probably borrow code from there if you have your own backend thingy. https://github.com/netbrain/mmdb-xbmc-addon