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How about the manufacturers providing a back door? Their own code. What happens in the event that you loose your fob?

Thanks for that! Actually it still introduces the scroller at some point, but is slightly better.

Misleading title. Refined theme, rather than a UI overhaul.

Beautiful! Hardly. Just de-cluttered on the face of things. Trying to select an encoding is about as difficult as pinning the tail on the donkey.

I find I sometimes need to right click my title bar on Linux, to do things like move my window to another workspace. And other window functions, I have to have it on with Chrome. I…

If you get tab happy, tabs are really difficult to navigate in Firefox without and extension, and I've tried most of the popular tab extensions - and have yet to find anything I li…

One rough edge is that it totally ignores my keyboard layout for keyboard shortcuts. It appears to use the Qwerty layout for shortcuts, even under a different layout. (That's Opera…

Pick any of the main browsers, the main advance in the UI is the slimming down of controls. Even Opera went from a g'zillion toolbars down to a slim default interface. The renderin…

You are right of course, I doubt there would be a scene, only me embarrassing myself by probably dragging out some kind of justification of not wanting to hand over my details. Per…

Funny you say that. A lot of retail chains in the UK, ask for your postcode as you make a purchase, and basically identify you. I'm never comfortable with that arrangement, but han…

I was going to suggest it could have been something as simple as a name. Posterous is a proposterous name. It's horrible. Tumblr is an equally shitty Web2.0 crap name, in the same …

Sure. If you are worried about email mistypes then you could always provide a confirmation. However I'd have thought we'd be pretty good at getting our email address right, and the…

I think using an email address (and/or a uniquely generated username), as an identifier is the best comprimise. Then a generic 'credentials invalid' => retrieve your account: 'ente…

Really I was just suggesting trying the one tab approach as an experiment. You can't read in parallel, but I do understand the idea of backgrounding links to visit later - so you d…

> My browsing is like a tree, pages branch off every which way. I used to have to keep track of that entire tree structure in my head, now the browser does it for me! And how does …

I don't really get the text-only web browser comment. An aside... If W3m was as fast as Firefox - I'd most likely use it. Bizarre really as you wouldn't expect it to be slower.

I understand how easy that is to do. But when do you have the time to read them? Part of the fun of the web, is getting a little lost in it. But I totally loose focus. Have you eve…

I've been championing the same issues, or rather bemoaning them on HN repeatedly. I never see much innovation with the actual browser UIs. The rendering engines get plenty of love,…

At least with Chrome there is the built in Task Manager.

Problem I've found is that there aren't any simple GUIs for creating/tweaking GTK3 themes. You could configure the colour scheme slightly (5 colours) with Gnome 2 and the older GTK…

Yeah it's fugly by half (Ubuntu that is). And I once even liked the browns! I prefer the subdued themes. I'm almost happy with Bluebird and Xfce, but I still have theme/colour sche…

I would take a punt and suggest that the average punter couldn't describe what a desktop is. I'd struggle to define it. But think it includes: application launching, application ma…

Only when they experience the problem first hand! My brother is a novice computer user, he ripped all his CDs into his music library through windows media player as WMA files. I tr…

Not to mention the dross is gumming up the tubes! Having said that, this is more a question of content delivery than the actual content.

This has been imagined before, but with dire consequences... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qabOjyTNg6s