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Not the parent but from F-Droid I use Fennec, which is FF nightly with the branding and some of the more obnoxious anti-features removed: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
If you actually check the version numbers, it's actually the release version (instead of the nightly) with unofficial branding.
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Completely new codebase yeah. The old codebase is known as Fennec and is directly based on Gecko (the browser engine that powers desktop Firefox). All the same advantages. The UI wasn't excellent, but it did the job perfectly well. The new codebase is known as Fenix and is instead based on GeckoView which isn't an actual browser but rather an library version of Gecko that is intended to replace Androids own System We…
Part 1 due to comment length: > but rather an library version of Gecko that is intended to replace Androids own System WebView Not literally, though. Yes, the idea of packaging up the rendering engine inside of an Android library with a proper Java API was likely modelled on the implementation of the system web view, but I don't think that offering a literal drop-in replacement was ever the goal. Literally replacing…
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Not quite: I think you've conflated some senses. • The third-person plural 'they' is uncontroversial. • The third-person singular 'they' for an unknown (but not general) individual , while valid English in nearly all dialects, went through a period of being proscribed for no apparent reason.¹ • The third-person singular 'they' for a specific individual, of unknown gender, was proscribed and uncommon. Evidence of its…
1. The changes you've outlined are all simplifications except the ones for non-binary, which as the Stallman essay linked above outlines, is a mess. Simultaneously more confusing, less accurate, less precise, sounds more clumsy, and takes more effort. Not a winning strategy (though calling people bigots got quite far for a while). 2. We know what a country is, we've created several. 3. We're not with the Pope and hav…
Exactly the same criticism applies to singular you, down the the example sentences. I would take Richard Stallman's criticism more seriously if he was a thou proponent. (Use whatever words you like for the generic person / unknown gender cases, but don't start othering people by using non-standard pronouns exclusively for them.)
> country […] Pope
That paragraph was about historical developments; sorry it wasn't clear. Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debatable_lands
> Non-binary is a luxury belief.
It's a basic fact of life in many pre- / non-British Empire cultures – and even in modern-day cultures formerly of the Empire. If you mean the modern, 'western' ideas of non-binary gender, that's derived from the experiences of transgender people, and existed for decades before the academics picked up on it.
Virtue-signalling existing about something doesn't mean the thing is made up (see: carbon credits, corporate inclusivity). Your linked essay somewhat misses the point: belief in virtue-signalling is also a status symbol, as is name-dropping social psychology and evolutionary psychology in an argument, and I could easily rebut that essay in exactly the same way it rebuts the 'defund the police' movement (except, that wouldn't be intellectually honest: for all its central thesis is flawed, and its examples are misrepresented, it does describe a real phenomenon).
> that is not a reason for why it should be grammatical in English
If I may be pedantic for a moment: it's the same grammatical construction as things that are grammatical, so it is grammatical. That's not up for debate! Even "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is, per Noam Chomsky, a grammatically-correct sentence. What's in question is whether it's acceptable, to which I say the notion of acceptability is not how language works, and especially not how English works. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription for further discussion.
> or should that be they ain't they
They ain't them. ;-)
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Wait, how do you use a bookmarklet like that on mobile Firefox? I have two that do this: https://web.archive.org/web/submit?url=%s javascript:void(location.href=' http://web.archive.org/save/'+document.location.href) But neither of them work on mobile because it opens a new tab first before evaluating the bookmarklet.
Is that void(...code...) syntax a good way to execute bookmarks? Also, your code is not urlencoded? I use javascript:(function(){...code...})() and urlencode the whole thing. I maintain this bookmarklet editor to easily convert code to bookmarklets: https://www.gibney.org/bookmarklet_editor
oh well... Wish I had found your bookmarklet editor when I was trying to use them on Android before!
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1. The changes you've outlined are all simplifications except the ones for non-binary, which as the Stallman essay linked above outlines, is a mess. Simultaneously more confusing, less accurate, less precise, sounds more clumsy, and takes more effort. Not a winning strategy (though calling people bigots got quite far for a while). 2. We know what a country is, we've created several. 3. We're not with the Pope and hav…
> the ones for non-binary, which as the Stallman essay linked above outlines, is a mess. Exactly the same criticism applies to singular you , down the the example sentences. I would take Richard Stallman's criticism more seriously if he was a thou proponent. (Use whatever words you like for the generic person / unknown gender cases, but don't start othering people by using non-standard pronouns exclusively for them.)…
> > Non-binary is a luxury belief.
> It's a basic fact of life in many pre- / non-British Empire cultures – and even in modern-day cultures formerly of the Empire.
But not part of a Britain that has a literate population that's been through basic science at school, which still appears not to have been enough for teenagers, and curiously, university educated journalists and educators. What could tie those groups together?
Regardless, what's happening elsewhere in other languages is for the speakers of those places and languages to deal with.
> If you mean the modern, 'western' ideas of non-binary gender
Yes, I do. I don't live in 1550 nor in pre-modern Britain, hence, those time periods have no relevance to this discussion other than "things change".
> If I may be pedantic for a moment: it's the same grammatical construction as things that are grammatical, so it is grammatical. That's not up for debate!
You're arguing on the side of an innovation, of course it breaks grammar rules (and who claimed that Chomsky's sentence was not grammatical? Again irrelevant). The only thing worth writing in that whole text was “What's in question is whether it's acceptable”, and it isn't. Wouldn't it have been better to focus on that instead of chatting nonsense about borders that only Scots with a chip on their shoulders care about?
No, because it would expose the paucity of any good reason to accept this innovation. The idea that those who are against this are being prescriptive is funny, I'm not demanding that anyone use an innovation in language to refer to anyone else upon threat of punishment if they don't comply. Now that's not how English nor English culture should work.
> They ain't them. ;-)
Glad you're paying attention but I meant what I wrote, the joke doesn't work if I make it more grammatical ;-)
This is so far off-topic we might end up in our own debatable lands…
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Do you still want to use it was took over by Avast? https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/whats-new/acquisiti...
The extension has fortunately been forked: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/istilldontcar...
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Is that void(...code...) syntax a good way to execute bookmarks? Also, your code is not urlencoded? I use javascript:(function(){...code...})() and urlencode the whole thing. I maintain this bookmarklet editor to easily convert code to bookmarklets: https://www.gibney.org/bookmarklet_editor
Thanks! Unfortunately, bookmarklets just doesn't seem to work on iOS... :( I tried using your bookmarklet editor to see if it helped, and the resulting bookmarklets didn't work in iOS Safari nor iOS Firefox. oh well... Wish I had found your bookmarklet editor when I was trying to use them on Android before!
From https://www.tampermonkey.net/imprint.php : Die Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie hier [0]. I would have expected a bit more effort in giving proper access to the privacy policies, after all, it being closed source and having the ability to view/modify any page. [0] https://www.tampermonkey.net/%5B%5Bprivacy_url%5D%5D
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What exactly is better in ViolentMonkey? Just want to know because I keep working with userscripts and after GreaseMonkey's collapse TamperMonkey has been my default userscript manager.
TamperMonkey has a terrible embedded editor. It assumes 4 spaces formatting and some other shit that I don't like, but can't change. I'm also lazy to switch to something else. I just wish they would fix the editor.
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Just get iceraven.
Who is behind Iceraven? I feel uneasy using such a critical component from unknown Internet randos.
Everyone in the world is an unknown internet rando.