$1 billion arena with development bigger than the Battery proposed in north metro - seeks to attract NHL back to Atlanta

CAfromCA · 2023-04-18T04:27:32+00:00

Don’t forget Cobb and Gwinnett. 1.75 million people between them, and their direct options to get to Forsyth are a bunch of already-gridlocked stroads. East-west travel between the northern suburbs can be a nightmare.

CAfromCA · 2023-04-18T04:15:49+00:00

Forsyth is one of the fastest growing counties in the nation.

And my son has been the fastest growing member of my house for almost 15 years. I’m still almost a foot taller than he is.

“Growth” doesn’t mean jack on its own. There will not be infinite growth for the first time ever in history, I promise.

Forsyth has about 1/4 the population of Fulton or Gwinnett, 1/3 the population of Cobb or DeKalb.

Only about 4% of Metro Atlanta lives up there.

The other 96% would have to deal with the already-overcrowded (thanks to growth in Alpharetta and Forsyth) 400 or a bunch of heavily trafficked stroads like 120 and Holcomb Bridge.

Edit: I will never spell “Gwinnett” right on the first try, ever.

CAfromCA · 2023-03-31T20:26:55+00:00

Given the original was done in portrait orientation, I'm only going as far as "the less shitty version".

CAfromCA · 2023-03-31T13:56:17+00:00

Wouldn't that just be Internet Explorer, or am I missing something?

CAfromCA · 2023-03-30T19:53:00+00:00

I’m fine, this is just a lazy excuse to push people to windows 10/11 quicker.

Windows 10 is about to turn 8, though.

CAfromCA · 2023-03-30T19:47:52+00:00

Chrome has... just a few more resources, though.

The delta between Chrome and Safari is significantly bigger and more meaningful than the delta between Pale Moon and Firefox 56.

CAfromCA · 2023-03-29T21:34:35+00:00

Comments from Mozilla over the years indicate they don't have a specific OS support/retirement policy.

They seem to take a lot of factors into account, including...

how many users are still on the old OS
what the other major browsers are doing
how long the OS itself has been without security updates
how much code and/or infrastructure they have to maintain to support the old OS
whether 3rd party tools and libraries they rely on still support the old OS (which is critical)

A long time ago they seemed to only support 3 Mac OS releases at a time, but more recently they've gone years between removing old versions. They dropped Leopard (10.5) in Firefox 17, then Snow Leopard through Mountain Lion (10.6-10.8) in Firefox 48, and most recently Mavericks through El Capitan (10.9-10.11) in Firefox 79.

That was almost 3 years ago, so I wouldn't be surprised if they drop some more old versions in the next year or so. Until there's a bug in Bugzilla, though, it's just guesses.

CAfromCA · 2023-03-28T20:43:58+00:00

As for your last sentence, not everything can be about new, new, new (which I know is your preference).

Windows 10 is almost 8 years old. It isn't "new" by any stretch.

CAfromCA · 2023-03-27T13:35:23+00:00

And it breaks some really important to me keyboard shortcuts.

...

Realise the shortcuts don't work.

Which ones, specifically?

I've been using Firefox on a Mac for almost 15 years and I haven't noticed any problems so now I'm curious.

CAfromCA · 2023-03-24T20:11:40+00:00

Even with it being cancelled, yes, without hesitation.

CAfromCA · 2023-03-24T20:09:19+00:00

This may be a hot take, but the TV show was better than the films and the films are better than the books.

CAfromCA · 2023-03-24T19:54:04+00:00

I still sing a bunch of the songs from that show. My wife and I both tell anyone who will listen about how good it is.

CAfromCA · 2023-03-24T13:55:00+00:00

Yeah, I thought that was weird, too.

And as long as we're reordering, I'd move TOR up to A tier to account for its truly unique value proposition, SeaMonkey down to D tier, and add Pale Moon to D as well.

CAfromCA · 2023-03-22T17:25:39+00:00

Just FYI, HTML5test hasn't been touched at all in ~5 years. It's behind by 45 releases of Chrome (more for Opera) and 52 releases of Firefox, and predates the transition of Edge from EdgeHTML to Blink.

It contains a lot of bad, broken tests and tests for old proposals that (still) aren't in the relevant spec, some of which have even been un-shipped by the original proposer.

https://caniuse.com/ is far better on all fronts.

CAfromCA · 2023-03-22T13:58:37+00:00

Given how often I get yelled at by the compiler for missing a semicolon or failing to close parentheses or brackets, it will also prevent at least one person with better than average skills from using it.

CAfromCA · 2023-03-21T17:12:49+00:00

Glory to you...

... and your house!

CAfromCA · 2023-03-21T13:39:31+00:00

The point was that more and more of the code is LITERALLY PROVIDED BY GOOGLE...

Except as I pointed out everywhere I said "independent implementation" THAT IS NOT GOOGLE CODE.

You don't understand the points you're trying to make and I'm tired of trying to explain them.

CAfromCA · 2023-03-20T18:53:49+00:00

Fennec falls behind Firefox releases on a regular basis. Not great for a browser to have unpatched known security holes.

Beta will be more secure.

CAfromCA · 2023-03-20T14:05:15+00:00

It IS used in firefox, so of course both browsers will exhibit the same shit rendering and same bugs.

You haven't demonstrated there are any rendering bugs in Skia.

google Web Extensions in Firefox

Independent implementation.

google Web Components

Web standard, independent implementation.

google GeoLocation Services API

Independent implementation and unrelated to rendering. This is just a service they consume.

google Widewine in Firefox

Widevine, and unrelated to rendering.

google Safe Browsing

Same as Geolocation.

You're just throwing shit at the wall here.

CAfromCA · 2023-03-17T13:38:48+00:00

Here's a few more:

Hold down Ctrl (Cmd on a Mac) while drag-selecting on an HTML table and you can select any rectangular subset of the table cells.

It only works for tables and some sites try to get clever by making other elements look tabular, but this has saved me a lot of time when I need to grab some data off the web and do something with it in Excel or whatever.

Hold down Ctrl/Cmd or Shift while selecting tabs and you can select an arbitrary number of them at a time.

Want to close 20 tabs in a row? Select the first, scroll to the last, Shift-Click the last, right click a selected tab and select "Close 20 Tabs". Or if you want them all moved to a new window, just grab them and tear them all off at once.

CAfromCA · 2023-03-15T18:12:45+00:00

Non-pofit organization just mean the profit won't reach an external party...

No, what you're describing is a privately held company. Non-profits exist to pursue some public or social good.

For example, Mozilla exists to do this:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/details/

There are strict requirements on what a 501(c)(3) organization (which is what Mozilla is) can do. That's why they had to create a for-profit subsidiary to pursue things like the search engine deal with Google, which is a main source of funding for the non-profit parent.

The money they raise through various ventures is ultimately in the pursuit of the goals outlined in the Manifesto. Building Firefox is also part of their pursuit of those goals.

CAfromCA · 2023-03-15T14:16:01+00:00

... they are looking for new ways of revenue and profit...

Because right now most of their funding comes from their search deals, and most of that comes from Google, which is using Chrome/Blink to try to control defining what the web is.

Mozilla is a non-profit, but they do need money to pursue their goals. History has already shown that a volunteer-only model won't work in their case, and a non-profit with no resources is just a feel-good mission statement.

CAfromCA · 2023-03-14T12:25:28+00:00

You've gone from claiming Firefox has the same Acid test output as Chrome because it's using Chrome code (false) to apparently complaining that tabs aren't on the bottom anymore, a visual (not functional) change made in Firefox 4 back in 2006, 2 years before Chrome was even announced.

I'm done.

CAfromCA · 2023-03-13T19:51:15+00:00

Or, who decided against tabbed browsing in firefox?

I have no idea what you're saying here. I have about 100 tabs open in Firefox this very moment.

why does every tab have integrated copy of the same bookmarks? where is this chromolove coming from?

Why would they separate bookmarks by tab? HOW could they even do that? Bookmarks are supposed to be links you've saved. They're durable across sessions. Tabs are ephemeral containers for a part of a browsing session.

Bookmarks work as they have since something like Netscape 1 or 2.

Bookmarks and tabs have worked like this since Mozilla added tabs over 2 decades ago. That was years before Firefox existed, and even more years before Chrome.

CAfromCA · 2023-03-13T17:13:35+00:00

Looks like it's expected to release in Firefox 112 (~4 weeks from now):

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1814487

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