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smeehee

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    Comment #40393612

    Fifth group here: HTML mail should never have been implemented. Better, never thought of in the first place.

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    Comment #40393566

    And require that if any colours are set, both foreground and background are set. (I've seen too much breakage with assumptions about one or the other.)

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    Comment #40393552

    MX records don't send messages. Assuming that “sent to them via SMTP” is meant… well, moving all messages to ‘junk’ isn't a good idea: it needs to be restricted to messages sent on…

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    Comment #39867822

    Debian have reverted xz-utils (in unstable) to 5.4.5 – actual version string is “5.6.1+really5.4.5-1”. So presumably that version's safe; we shall see…

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    Comment #13525434

    Hmm… I'd look but there don't seem to be any builds since late November on mozilla.debian.net.

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    Comment #13525308

    I recently switched from Firefox to Vivaldi due to the upcoming dependency on PulseAudio. Depending on what happens, I may end up switching back; but if I do, I expect support for …

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    Comment #13387670

    Google can prompt you to confirm the login via your phone. It appears to work well: there's a time-out, and this time-out is also triggered if a second login attempt is made in par…

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    Comment #11367712

    Sometimes, it's clear what minimum window size they've assumed. I know of one (bank login) which doesn't work well on a netbook due to this. I tried to report the problem via the s…

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    Comment #11367542

    I think that the IE11 one, of those, is best. I would have said that Firefox's rendering matched it but it's doing that broken kind of anti-aliasing which adds colour fringing.

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    Comment #11367499

    Oops. Somebody forgot to set the background colour on that page. As I've changed the default to light grey (white's too bright), that makes it rather less readable...

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    Comment #10157546

    This seems loosely equivalent to Google's account activity mail, but with invade-by-default. I can see it being useful, though, despite the flaws which you describe. Also – potenti…