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A few years ago I thought it would be nice to be able to compose an email in a new tab instead of a separate window. I found a Bugzilla entry proposing adding this to Thunderbird t…

Or give the visas to the jobs with the highest 85,000 salaries instead of using a lottery.

Syncanny development appears to be on indefinite hiatus, so it's not something I would want to trust my backups with.

If you read the whole article, the author mixes in caveats throughout and says that it requires a special set of requirements for the usenet backup to be worthwhile. At some point,…

This is the best feature of tmux. It's worth pointing out here though (in a post about making the terminal act like an IDE), that you can split the terminal into two panes so you c…

It's funny to see the AARP working together with EFF and Mozilla.

I have followed the situation fairly closely, and I agree with your assessment. I haven't seen anything that makes me think either Pentadactyl or Vimperator will survive the deprec…

I am willsALMANJ. The Pentadactyl devs never responded to repeated attempts to engage them on the continued distribution of the addon. I could have posted it to addons.mozilla.org,…

You can't categorically remap some key sequence to Escape in VimFx (not sure if you meant Vimperator where you can do this just like in vim). However, you can open the preference a…

This is a nice feature. The downsides compared to Vimperator/Pentadactyl is that you can tab-complete the search term and you can't get search suggestions as you type (or at least …

I'm not sure what SPAs are or what Asana or Reviewable are, but I have happily used gmail with Pentadactyl by using passkeys. This is what I have in my passkeys setting for gmail: …

On MacOS, you can use the vim mode of Karabiner. This lets you hit and hold "s" and "d" at the same time and then use h, j, k, and l as the arrow keys. Sadly I haven't found equive…

I switched to VimFx recently for the same reason. Actually, the ":" shortcut for the GCLI command line is a VimFx shortcut, not a standard Firefox one. The GCLI can be customized. …

It seems like this post is choosing a convenient point in time start its argument from. The reason cheap airlines like Spirit came about was because there was a market for cheaper …

It lacks many features of Pentadactyl but covers the basics -- clicking links and text boxes with the keyboard. I have found it possible to replicate some of the things I missed fr…

I have been testing out VimFx as well (long time Pentadactyl user). I miss being able to do ":b" and quickly find open tabs, but the Firefox awesomebar has a similar functionality …

Sadly it's not realistic. Even if someone were to put in the time to make it work, Vimperator would just break again within the next year when XUL addons are deprecated in favor of…

Hmmm, after Australis changed the UI, e10s has begun to enlarge the memory footprint, XUL was ditched for Chrome extensions, and support for encrypted media extensions was added, I…

Yes, I work on a mixed team of physicists, engineers, and computer scientists, and the most frustrating part is trying to work with some of the physicists' code. For the most part …

The current system of journal publication has odd incentives -- paying to be published and doing peer review for free -- and should be revised in some way. Unfortunately though the…

There are tutorials in the IBM Quantum Experience that go through the basics of manipulating qubits and putting opertions together into small quantum circuits.

It's a little odd to me that this project is presented so explicitly as being linked to the IBM Quantum Experience because the IBM Quantum Experience has a built-in simulator alrea…

There are some parallels between LibreOffice and Thunderbird that make The Documentation Foundation's adoption of Thunderbird attractive. 1. Both LibreOffice and Thunderbird are de…

VimFx (and Vimium for Chrome -- XUL deprecation and the loss of Pentadactyl migth be what finally pushes to switch from Firefox to Chromium) are nice addons but feature wise they d…

Yes, this is why the issue has become urgent right now. Thunderbird barely has the resources to keep up with the underlying changes to Gecko with each release. It has nowhere near …