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A trip down to any consumer store here in Germany?
They have 50 inch computer monitors for $450 with built in TV tuners and speakers at any store in Germany? Oh wait, if it has a built in TV tuner and speakers, it's just called a television. And we have those at Wal Mart in the US.
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In version 28 or so they removed the ability to configure Firefox Sync against a custom Sync server. You could continue to use an existing setup but there is no UI for setting up a new one. (all AFAIK)
It's things like this which become annoying. Almost like an old school corporate mentality... despite being an open-source platform. I'm trying to get into using Firefox again but the lack of transparency from Mozilla Inc. is frustrating.
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Users remember Firefox as the browser that gives them control over their experience Power users, or users? Among the crowd here, sure. But in the rest of the world? unlike Chrome which babysits and won't let you interfere with Google's need to harvest data. Firefox has been getting more and more nannyish and chromelike with every release. * There's the "let's throw out semantic versioning since Chrome already did it"…
> * There's the upcoming "all your plugins are going to break, many permanently" when XUL gets thrown out and the new hotness won't have feature parity at release (in other words, Firefox plugins will be as limited as Chrome plugins) As a long time firefox user this is the one that hurts the most. I honestly hope someone forks firefox to preserve this functionality. I know it is a losing proposition in the long run,…
I've been a happy user of it more many years.
Once you use it, you'll wish you'd found it sooner ;)
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So, are there anyone that are working on developing FFOS further? If not, it's dead for all practical purposes. Just like WebOS is dead even though that was open sourced as well. I'm not excited at all to see what they do with connected devices, because I expect them (and their partners) to have a go at it for a couple of years and then shut it down when the next shiny new market opportunity appears. I have no idea w…
Correct me if I'm wrong, but WebOS was open sourced after it started failing, and it was only parts of webos that were first "open sourced". I think the contexts are different, from day one b2g has been open source, and has had a contingent of supporters. Plus, WebOS never actually got as far as FirefoxOS did on physical devices -- FFOS is powering phones for people all across the world right now. From what I remembe…
I really wanted this phone, but I was skeptical as to whether it could make a big enough dent given Apple and Android.
The card system that Google now uses IIRC was because one of the designers left WebOS and joined Google.
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They have 50 inch computer monitors for $450 with built in TV tuners and speakers at any store in Germany? Oh wait, if it has a built in TV tuner and speakers, it's just called a television. And we have those at Wal Mart in the US.
That was my point. A modern dumb flat TV is no different than a monitor.