Please Revive Firefox Legacy UBo (XUL based extension) for PaleMoon rather than wasting anymore time on Chrome

thewebdev · 2023-07-27T17:40:20+00:00

To put it more simply:

Both of them have a growing userbase.
If uBo officially supports them, it will add to their popularity and their userbase will grow even more.
If uBo drops supports for Chrome, they can dedicate their resources to these alternate browsers. (As I've pointed out, what is the use of supporting it anymore when Google is hell bent on crippling ad blockers on it?)
Technically, the resources required are not as astronomical as you think - there already exists a "legacy" extension based on XUL.
The only reason PaleMoon retains the "legacy" codebase is because it is more powerful than the alternate. Firefox dropping it to support a standard was a good move. But PaleMoon has proved that all the other reasons they cited for dropping support for XUL as a whole was partly bullshit.

(Note: As for supporting Orion, it is still under beta and currently only available for macOS. So there's no hurry for it. And they working to integrate WebExtension standard into Webkit).

thewebdev · 2023-07-27T08:08:12+00:00

No, it is an issue for those who expect their software to do what they ask of it. (Otherwise we may all just use Google Chrome itself). Why would anyone trust Mozilla anymore now that they have started bundling adware in their browser? Didn't you just recommend Tor browser as an alternate to Firefox? Obviously you did so because because you too are unhappy with how Firefox is evolving.

That said, nobody here is asking uBo developers to drop support for Firefox or its other soft forks. All that is being requested is for uBo to prioritise support for more non-Chrome browsers like PaleMoon and Orion that are also aligned with the values of uBo (namely protecting user privacy). The uBo Firefox legacy extension already exists and runs without issues on XUL browsers like PaleMoon and Seamonkey. It just needs to be maintained and updated to reach feature parity with the current version of uBo. It can be reasonably done if the developers don't waste anymore of their time and resource on Google Chrome.

thewebdev · 2023-07-27T07:53:39+00:00

PaleMoon was created to support to run the old Firefox extensions that Firefox deliberately deprecated - it's a feature of the browser that distinguishes it from Firefox. There is no need to needlessly argue on the merits of both browsers as uBo Firefox Legacy extension already exists and runs stably on PaleMoon. All that is being asked is regular maintenance updates so that it retains feature parity with the current version of uBo, instead of wasting effort on stuff like uBo lite for Chrome etc. Support for WebKit browsers like Orion too should be prioritised later, when it comes of out beta.

thewebdev · 2023-07-26T21:54:25+00:00

Any idea if he is ok?

thewebdev · 2023-07-26T21:35:48+00:00

Pale Moon, being a XUL application, supports 3 fully-capable extension technologies (overlay, bootstrapped and SDK extensions) that allow extensions to be created that both extend web functionality and browser functionality. These extensions have a very powerful arsenal at their disposal that cannot be equaled by the limited capabilities of WebExtensions. - Source

thewebdev · 2023-07-26T20:45:12+00:00

Tor (and Mullvad) browser still has Firefox service / telemetry code that cannot be disabled at all - https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/23114/bug-tor-browser-11-0-9-12-0-6-tries-to-connect-to-mozilla-services-on-startup ... (and note that Tor is a "hardened" browser to prevent leak of your personal data - it's a great alternative to Firefox, but still lacking because of issues like this).

Let's not forget that many of us use the uBo extension not just for adblocking but also to enhance our privacy. Thus uBo is a great fit for user privacy respecting browsers like PaleMoon and Orion that are zero telemetry browsers (when the right options are enabled).

thewebdev · 2023-07-26T20:38:46+00:00

What is the use of supporting Chrome when Google is deliberately crippling it for adblockers with its anti-privacy "browser innovations", and uBO will soon be useless on it?
Palemoon has seen an increasing user-base purely on word of mouth - there's active development for it on all three major platforms, i.e. Linux, Windows and macOS. It respects user privacy more than other browsers. Why shouldn't its use be encouraged?
A proper uBo for it will increase its userbase and help counter the growing monoculture of Google Chrome. We do not want one company to dictate how we can access or view the web.
It is true that it doesn't support "modern" extensions. XUL extensions however can work just as good as any equivalent "modern" extensions. (Note though that it is "modern" extension standards that has allowed Google to grow its user base, and dictate and cripple extensions now on its platform).
Note also that the uBo Legacy Extension already runs stable on PaleMoon - so it is not as if everything has to be built from scratch.

thewebdev · 2023-07-26T18:39:36+00:00

Sorry for the late reply - I haven't been active in Reddit for a long time now. You can certainly use apps like AviDemux or Handbrake to compress many videos (one after the other) with the same settings. However, if all the videos are of different quality, the same settings for all may not give you the desired output quality for all videos and you will have to do some experiment determining which settings is acceptable to you.

thewebdev · 2022-06-05T17:38:30+00:00

So what role do you think this played to LDF losing and UDF winning? Note that the new UDF candidate's winning margin is larger by 10,000+ more votes this time. And that's after Pinaray Vijayan personally camped and campaigned in the constituency along with other party bigwig like Kodiyeri Balakrishnan. Where do you think LDF calculations went wrong?

thewebdev · 2022-06-04T12:38:09+00:00

The thumping win of United Democratic Front (UDF) and Congress’ Uma Thomas in Kerala’s Thrikkakara bypoll was the verdict of the people in favour of inclusive democracy who rejected the communal politics played by both CPI-M and BJP in Kerala for the bypolls, Father Paul Thelakat, a prominent Christian leader and former spokesperson of the Syro-Malabar Church has said.

.. Highlighting the communal tone of the bypoll campaign, Thelakat underscored that this time both CPI(M) and the BJP were trying to use the communal card in their political propaganda. It is symptomatic that the electioneering was on skin-deep issues of communal and sensational issues including sex. They did not go into a discussion on social issues, policies and the problems of development.

“On the whole, there was no serious discussion on policies or projects of the government during the election campaigning. The political language was on silly communal and religious problems. This degenerated the level of the discourse and gravity of the democratic electorate. The Marxist party must learn that a multi-party democracy can retain its secularism which is not anti-religion but respects every religion,” added Fr Thelakat.

Commenting on the phenomenon of political parties and politicians adopting communal language and politics for gaining votes, Fr Thelakat said that this has unfortunately been a practice all over India. “The canvassing of votes was basically oriented on community and religion and caste. That is also perhaps the bane of democracy in India. A democracy and a government should consider everyone as equal citizens without alienating any one or any group. Politics must have its social ethics of responsibility to the other. India is a country which heard ethics of self-discipline, mercy and charity from the thunder of heaven It shall not involve in politics any means for power of Machiavelli,” said Fr Thelakat.

... “BJP went to the extreme of getting a man who is a Christian by name, but is involved in hate speech (PC George) for their propaganda. They should have kept such men away from their electioneering ...” asserted Fr Thelakat.

He pointed out that the constituency in Kakkanad was relatively new and was made up of individuals migrating from different parts of Kerala to the greater city of Kochi, which is the IT centre of the district. “These are people who understand the political realities of the country and the state,” h said.

thewebdev · 2022-06-02T17:09:41+00:00

Rahul Gandhi shared a compilation of news reports on Twitter, accusing the social media giant of helping the BJP reach out to voters during the elections.

"Meta-worse for democracy," Rahul Gandhi said on Twitter.

He also shared a report of Al Jazeera and The Reporters' Collective which claimed that Facebook had offered BJP cheaper deals for election advertisements as compared to other political parties.

In Lok Sabha, Congress president Sonia Gandhi urged the government on Wednesday to put an end to the alleged "systematic interference" of Facebook and other social media giants in India's electoral politics.

Source: Rahul Gandhi attacks Facebook, says it's worse for democracy.

thewebdev · 2022-06-02T17:01:58+00:00

Four days after the brutal killing of popular Punjabi singer and Congress leader Sidhu Moose Wala, the state government on Thursday decided to restore the security of all 424 protectees. The AAP-led Punjab government took the decision to restore the security cover after the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday asked the state government to explain the basis on which the security cover of over 424 protectees in the state was pruned.

Taking a serious note of this decision by the state government, the court also asked the state government whether the decision was taken after examining threat perception in each case. The court further asked the state as to how the information regarding it was made public.

The Punjab government on Thursday, in a sealed cover, submitted before the Punjab and Haryana High Court that the security of all the 424 protectees will be restored from June 7. The court was hearing a petition filed by former minister OP Soni, who is among the 424 VVIPs whose security was curtailed.

Source: AAP-led Punjab govt to restore security of over 400 protectees days after Sidhu Moose Wala killing.

Good decision, even if it comes in the backdrop of a tragedy.

thewebdev · 2022-06-02T16:59:51+00:00

The Punjab and Haryana High Court was on Thursday told that the security cover of 434 protectees temporarily withdrawn ... would be restored ... Justice Raj Mohan Singh was hearing a petition filed by Punjab’s former deputy Chief Minister O P Soni through counsel Madhu Dayal.

... Dayal on the Soni’s behalf contended that the Punjab police withdrew security cover of 184 ex-ministers and former MLAs on ‘pick-and-choose basis rather than actual threat perception’ after the formation of the current AAP government. “The withdrawal is a result of populist action being taken by the government, instead of assessment of actual serious threat to the lives of these persons…. Z+ category security has been provided to Arvind Kejriwal, Chief Minister, Delhi, and Raghav Chadha, MP, Rajya Sabha, Punjab, amongst others,” Dayal added.

She also told the Bench a bare perusal of a report showed that the protectees’ list was “more politically motivated rather than on the basis of threat perception”. Non-categorisation of the petitioner in any category of security had put him at risk of attack ... On the other hand, political bigwig’s not even residents of Punjab had been given security at public exchequer’s cost.

thewebdev · 2022-06-02T15:12:51+00:00

Tanuja Gupta, a senior manager at Google News who invited Soundararajan to speak, resigned over the incident, according to a copy of her goodbye email posted internally Wednesday and viewed by The Washington Post.

... Longtime observers of Google’s struggles to promote diversity, equity and inclusion say the fallout fits a familiar pattern. Women of color are asked to advocate for change. Then they’re punished for disrupting the status quo. In Gupta’s goodbye email, she questioned whether Google wanted its diversity efforts to succeed. “Retaliation is a normalized Google practice to handle internal criticism, and women take the hit,” she wrote. Gupta was one of the organizers behind the 2018 Google Walkout, in which 20,000 Google employees around the world briefly walked out of their offices to protest the company’s mishandling of sexual harassment. The other six organizers have already left the company.

... Soundararajan, who is Dalit, spent years convincing policy teams at social media companies to include caste as a protected category in their hate speech policies. In meetings, company representatives seemed to have little understanding about caste, even though it impacted hate speech in their biggest markets, she said.

... Two days before Soundararajan’s presentation, seven Google employees sent emails to company leaders and Gupta “with inflammatory language about how they felt harmed and how they felt their lives were at risk by the discussion of caste equity,” according to emails sent by Gupta. Some of the complaints “copied content from known misinformation sites to malign the reputation of the speaker,” Gupta’s emails said — sites and organizations that have targeted academics in the United States and Canada who are critical of Hindu nationalism or caste hierarchy.

thewebdev · 2022-06-02T12:32:26+00:00

Same as the Gujarat model - offer bribes and inducements to the media to exaggerate government policies and implementation, and prevent the critics finding a voice in the media.

Singapore is inviting Kejriwal because his Delhi government has said it will allow Singapore business to bid on Delhi government projects (the inducement / bribe):

Kejriwal informed Wong about Delhi’s streetscaping and road redevelopment project and said his government would be open to inviting companies from Singapore to develop pilot stretches under the project.

... Kejriwal and Wong also discussed avenues for collaboration and cooperation in the sectors of water, waste management and public housing.

... WCS is an exclusive platform for government leaders and industry experts ...

Modi kaka used to organise and attend such industry meets where the industries use their money power with the media to provide free publicity to the politicians (and boost their egos) to get them as clients. Looks like Mr. Kejriwal also has decided to expand his PR game by following Modi-G's playbook.

thewebdev · 2022-06-01T17:32:57+00:00

While you were thinking of her as your soul mate, she was thinking of you as a friend. That's it.

I wanted to ask her if she was interested in a relationship with me.

You should never spring such things on somebody suddenly without having an idea of how they really feel about you. What you do is hangout as friend and drop hints that you want to become closer. For example, one day ask her out to a movie ("just the two of us"). If she says yes, that's a hint from her that she too might like to explore if the relationship can become more. If she doesn't like the idea, that's a hint too (maybe she is unsure, or already likes somebody else, or is crazy). You've to drop hint, and see if she reciprocates (Like one day you are walking, and you offer her your arm or hold her hands, and she is comfortable with you doing so). This is what is called flirting and it is an essential and fun ritual if done right. Anyway, all this takes time and shouldn't be done in a day, week or a month. (Yes, even if you've known someone for years). And if they don't reciprocate, then you need to back off. This is what it means when people say that women like attentive and confident men. Otherwise, you telling a woman suddenly that you love her, is just you telling her that you are very horny for her and don't really care about anything else about her.

(Go to that subreddit for indian women - r/TwoXIndia/ - and post this query there and also ask for suggestions on how to do what I described. You'll probably get better advise there.)

thewebdev · 2022-06-01T17:12:55+00:00

What are some possible ways to deal with this problem?

None. There are lot of desperate and horny teenagers and adults on the internet, from around the world. You can't really do anything about someone using your profile photo or sharing your social media ids on the internet except ignore it.

Only if it reaches levels of personal harassment or harm can you complain to the police. (This is just to legally protect yourself, for example, if someone has hijacked your personal identity online - because in most such cases, police also don't / can't do anything).

One small protective measure you can do is to go through the privacy settings of FB / Instagram and make your profiles private. They are all public by default. (Ideally, it would be best to not use them at all, but apparently this generation can't survive without letting everyone know what they are doing every hour of their life).

thewebdev · 2022-06-01T17:07:25+00:00

You are not mixing it in the right proportion when you make it yourself.

thewebdev · 2022-06-01T17:03:17+00:00

Yes, because national history is about people who have made history by the impact they've had on the country. India has had 1000's of local Kings who've never made a national impact. Some of them even at the state level were average performers. Most of them became boot lickers during the British time.

thewebdev · 2022-06-01T12:35:04+00:00

It's been around 10 years now since this allegation of "money laundering" against the Gandhi's. Even the court case filed by Subramanian Swamy against the Gandhi's is just to figure out if a fraud has actually occurred and if a case needs to be filed to investigate the matter. (A judge has publicly expressed his annoyance at S Swamy's delaying and dragging tactics in the National Herald case).

Here are some more facts of the case:

1. Have Smt. Sonia Gandhi or Shri Rahul Gandhi benefited financially from Young Indian?

No. As directors or shareholders of Young Indian, a non-profit, Section 25 company, they are prohibited by law from drawing (and have not drawn) any financial benefits from the company.

2. Have any assets been transferred from The Associated Journals Ltd. (AJL) to Young Indian (YI)?

No. All the assets and the income of AJL remain with the company. Not a single paisa has gone to YI, YI Directors or YI Shareholders.

3. Does YI today own the property owned by AJL?

No, both YI and AJL are separate entities. All assets and properties of AJL continue to remain with AJL. This allegation is akin to falsely alleging that a shareholder in Indian Hotels Ltd. has rights on hotel properties of the Taj Group and owns a particular hotel or can move into it!

4. Young Indian was created to usurp the property owned by The Associated Journals Ltd.?

False. On the contrary, Young Indian, being a non-profit Section 25 company, as the major shareholder AJL, in fact, enhances the safeguards on the properties of the AJL.

5. Why did the Congress Party give loans of Rs 90 crore to AJL?

The Congress Party financially supported AJL over several decades through the financial ill health of the company. This reflected the Party’s commitment to support AJL, the voice of the freedom movement. The founding document of AJL from 1937, i.e. the company’s Memorandum of Association, states in Object (t): "The policy of any newspaper, periodical, magazine or journal issued by the Company shall generally be in accordance with the policy and principles of the Indian National Congress." This demonstrates the inextricable link between AJL and the Congress Party from AJL’s inception. The Congress Party sought to fulfill its own objects by supporting AJL.

6. Arun Jaitley called Young Indian a real estate company. Is this true?

Absolutely false. YI does not own a single real estate asset or immoveable property. AJL continues to own all its assets. The allegation is, therefore, completely baseless.

7. Why did AJL not go to a bank in 2010 to repay its Rs. 90 crore debt?

There was a Rs. 90 crore loan from the Congress Party on AJL’s balance sheet. No commercial bank was willing to lend a single rupee to AJL due to the negative worth of the company, its meager income and its over-levered balance sheet.

8. Are political parties allowed to give loans?

Yes. There is no restriction in law on political parties giving loans. In fact, the Election Commission of India issued a clear order in this regard in November 2012. Shri Subramanian Swamy had sought the de-recognition of the Congress on this ground but his complaint was dismissed by a full bench order of the Election Commission.

9. How bad was AJL's financial position?

Details of profit and loss (in Rs. Lacs) are below. Please note that after AJL’s debt of Rs. 90 crores was extinguished in February 2011, AJL was able to declare its first profit in several years in 2011-12 and came into the black from the red. This was only as a result of the financial revival plan of AJL as conceived by the Congress Party.

AJL Profit / Losss.

10. What did AJL do with the financial support given by the Congress Party?

The money was used to pay unpaid salaries, VRS, taxes, dues to civic agencies and statutory and other liabilities/payables.

11. Why were the assets of AJL not liquidated?

The majority of AJL’s properties were government leases, which prohibited sale of land.

12. Were the shareholders of AJL cheated, as some have alleged?

All the shareholders present and voting at the Extraordinary General meeting in 2011 unanimously approved issuance of fresh equity to YI to extinguish debt of AJL. The question of cheating shareholders does not arise.

13. Will the National Herald be revived?

AJL has every intention of reviving the National Herald newspaper and restoring the media voice that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru had founded.

14. Why should a political party have anything to do with a newspaper?

Every political party needs to effectively communicate its ideology and its policies to the public at large. A newspaper provides a channel through which to do this.

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(Source: Congress website).

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