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I have an old version of FireFox running because it no longer supports some of the add-ons I like (like FireFTP).
Today - and I mean during the day - somehow they updated my FireFox (same old version) and it no longer will run my Adblocker or web-beacon handler. Just like that.
Interestingly, they are now allowing trash into my system that invades my privacy, like the web beacons because the think that 'unsigned' add-ons might violate my privacy by transmitting information.
Especially doing this without a word or warning or permission, they crossed the line.
Morons.
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same, had an older version of ff (for the "save on quit warning" that they removed because: just because.
(apparently from comments from mozdev putting it back is completely new work, that tells me how f-uped mozilla dev is).
so they've "fixed the add-ons issue" ...but only by downloading a new version - NO THANKS.
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Just installed WaterFox (using it now).
It seemed a bit finicky at the install in terms of bringing in my FireFox settings - but all of my plugins are now plugged in. It seemed to happen in relays, maybe various internal rests.
So far, so good.
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Lopatir wrote: Pale Moon
Try the Speed Start add-on. Bloody brilliant, and incredibly flexible. And if you make a few folders, you can add links to each inside the other folders -- make the links so small that you only see the title, and you can build a menu with them.
I also really appreciate the Dismiss The Overlay add-on.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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ahh, a fellow moonie.
my only regret: didn't do this earlier.
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The only thing it seems to be lacking is all the things I didn't like about firefox.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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To be a self-made man, do you need an Oedipus complex, and a time machine?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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could also be done with a cloning tank and killing yourself.
caution: bench test first, potential infinite loop if variables initialized in the wrong place
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Ick?!?!?! 
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Depends where ego with id. Somehow, though, I think the whole thing sphinx.
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If you were a self-made man, how would you know?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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You would also need a sex-change if you want to impregnate yourself. That's actually the story-line of a movie, which features the song "I'm my own grandpa".
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Robert Heinlein wrote a story called "-- All You Zombies --"[^] where the lead character was his own father and mother.
Software Zen: delete this;
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What is it with some .NET developers and their desire to segregate their project into a billion different DLLs?
Nobody wants to install that. Nobody wants to deal with that. Stop it.
Is it a server application? No? Then go soak your head.
With a particular side-eye toward MonoTorrent.
Edit: I see I'm not alone in this sentiment. I thought I might have been a lone voice in the wilderness here. To the people that disagree, you raise some valid points, but I think context is important - there's a time and a place for lots of DLLs (like server code) and times when it's overdone. I'll cede that if you will.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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codewitch honey crisis wrote: What is it with some .NET developers and their desire to segregate their project into a billion different DLLs?
Nobody wants to install that. Nobody wants to deal with that. Stop it.
Whenever I need to update part of the project, I simply upload the stuff that changed. Means that an update only affects what is changed. Keeps the download small (looking at you Steam!), makes the parts easier to manage.
I don't like to redownload a complete setup that contains 10Gb of crap that is already there. So please, keep it as modular.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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that's fair but i'm talking about lots of little 16k dlls and such.
if you can't manage that much source in a single project, there's something wrong with the way you're factoring your code, IMO.
Adding, with small apps that need to update I just make them update themselves by bootstrap
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codewitch honey crisis wrote: that's fair but i'm talking about lots of little 16k dlls and such.
Which is perfect.
Do consider that a library is loaded on demand (when the runtime requires it). Put everything in an exe, and it is all loaded into memory before being executed.
It's not like an end-user need to know ANYTHING about what is present in the installation-folder, nor does the end-user need to manipulate those libs.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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i think it's a matter of degree. I'd put - for .NET - perfect being somewhere in the neighborhood of 150k and up, assuming generics are being used.
Adding, my criticism of the installbase is more from a dev and maintenance perspective. Sometimes there's such thing as overfactoring.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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codewitch honey crisis wrote: i think it's a matter of degree. I'd put - for .NET - perfect being somewhere in the neighborhood of 150k and up, assuming generics are being used.
Adding, my criticism of the installbase is more from a dev and maintenance perspective. Sometimes there's such thing as overfactoring.
Ah, did you expect my perspective to be that of a dairy-farmer?
Sometimes I preload a DLL by calling a static method that does nothing. Forces the runtime to load the assembly and all its types. It makes life easier. Why would you prefer big executables containing duplicate code over that?
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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i meant as opposed to an end user's perspective
i just prefer to factor assemblies by related task.
i'm not sure what others do.
If I find myself with a little bit of redundancy at the source level, I have a mechanism for "includes" in C#.
If I find myself with a lot of it, that's where a separate assembly comes in.
YMMV
I don't see 150k as particularly large. .NET allocates 12 megabytes of heap as its way of saying "hi!"
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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codewitch honey crisis wrote: i meant as opposed to an end user's perspective
i just prefer to factor assemblies by related task.
i'm not sure what others do.
Others do "whatever works". I've often asked for motivations on behaviour, never get one.
codewitch honey crisis wrote: If I find myself with a little bit of redundancy at the source level, I have a mechanism for "includes" in C#.
If I find myself with a lot of it, that's where a separate assembly comes in.
Assume the programmer to be incompetent, and suddenly the rules that .NET abides to seem logical. If you don't use it, we don't load it. Assume your developers are VB6-fans.
And to be honest, as a professional developer, I like it that way.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I get it, but maybe i'm just more of the Bastard Programmer from Hell than you are
Props for the reference though. BOFH is legend.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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codewitch honey crisis wrote: Props for the reference though. BOFH is legend.
Tx, meant as a tribute to BOFH. For one to see the reference makes me happy.
codewitch honey crisis wrote: I get it, but maybe i'm just more of the Bastard Programmer from Hell than you are
There's always a master to the master.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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LOL,
we have a 3rd party library that installs 2,083 small dlls.
I'd rather be phishing!
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does it make you cringe a little?
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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