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On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:28:18PM -0500, Dale wrote |
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> What version of Firefox are you using? I've seen some changes made |
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> to Firefox but nothing that drastic. I'm just curious if maybe I'm |
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> still running a older not affected version. |
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> My reason for asking. I'm volunteer on staff at a social site. |
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> I have several accounts there. Firefox, especially giving the |
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> addons it has, is the best option for me to use to have multiple |
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> profiles open at one time. Plus, I don't need the email feature |
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> for that either. If something ugly and nasty is coming, I need to |
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> start figuring out what I can do to work around this or something |
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> else to use. |
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I don't know your definition of ugly; everybody has their own idea. |
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Australis came in approx Firefox 29. After struggling with the |
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lobotomized interface for a while, I executed 2 commands... |
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emerge --unmerge firefox |
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emerge seamonkey |
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The Australis top menu bar is thicker, so that it's easier to tap on a |
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tablet... so what. They've removed text from the "File Edit View etc..." |
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menu. Instead, they've inserted a bunch of heiroglyphics/icons. A lot |
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of customizability has been removed. Put it this way... if I wanted to |
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use Chrome(ium), I'd use Chrome(ium) in the first place. |
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There are now some Firefox addons which try to restore the classic |
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look. The fact that there's demand for them is a sad commentary on the |
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"new-and-improved" UI. |
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Seamonkey has the classic look and has an Gentoo ebuild. The Palemoon |
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fork is now available for linux too. I don't see an ebuild in portage. |
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You either have to download the generic x86_64 version, or pull down the |
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tarball from Sourceforge, and build locally if you want optimization |
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and full feature control. |
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<fart="old"> |
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Going way back into the days of DOS, I remember when Wordstar 3.3 used |
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to be the most popular word processor. Then they brought out the |
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"new-and-improved" Wordstar 2000 version with drop-down menus instead of |
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{CTRL} key combos. It fell off the public radar soon afterwards. This |
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is what the Australis fiasco reminds me of. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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