Firefox takes 6+ hours to delete 15,000 history entries

Firefox takes 6+ hours to delete 15,000 history entries

I totally get it!

• Working is hard!
• Let someone else do it!
• Oh, Google has a browser engine! We do not have to do anything anymore, only keep raking in $$$ from Big Ad.

End result: the monkeys, employed by Mozilla foundation, FUBARed the Firefox history engine. Today at 10am I opened the history management window, typed in "google.com", highlighted all 15,000 entries, and hit "Delete" menu item.

It is now 4:45pm and the program finished deleting them moments ago. I never observed a worse performance from any other piece of software.

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Linux lie: "We have CAD programs"

Linux lie: "We have CAD programs"

Under Windows we can use horrible AutoCAD or decent SolidWorks. In the latter it is a piece of cake to design, as it is intuitive and "figures it out" for the designer: snaps primitives to the significant points (end, middle, tangent, etc).

Under Linux we have LibreCAD. I just tried to use it after using the above softwares after 25+ years of my engineering career. How naive I was, thinking that since I knew AutoCAD, any CAD would be the same. It would not.

I am staring at LibreCAD for an hour now, but I still cannot for the life of me figure out how to modify a line. I managed to create a fillet between two lines, but how can I specify its radius? What does the selection mean? Things can be selected, but there is no UI for editing their properties.

So far I enabled all toolbars to no avail. My question to the exceptionally genius open-source developers: do you ever think? Do you ever stop, before you develop, and do you ever ask yourself the question: why do you want to develop something? Are you not developing for your users? Then why do you never think about them? You truly never do, as if you did, then you would have thought about mimicking the existing UI flows of the existing CAD programs, to make the learning curve not look like a hockey stick!!! more...

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With the migration to Cromium, Firefox has become impervious to add-ons

With the migration to Cromium, Firefox has become impervious to add-ons

This speaks of who owns whom. There is no Mozilla foundation anymore. Their work here is done! They have taken glorious Netscape from AOL, fubared it completely, and ran away, flailing their hands. From now on there is only one search engine - Google - and there is only one browser - Chrome.

Firefox made sense only due to its add-ons. Without add-ons it was "just another browser", and a mediocre one. Add-ons made Firefox attractive. And not just any add-ons: the very specific ones, in fact. They were:

• NoScript - to protect from spying and privacy invasion
• AdBlock [RIP], uBlock - to protect from spying
• Cookie Monster [RIP], CookieMaster - to protect from spying
• DownThemAll [RIP] - to download using multiple streams
• Download Flash and Video - to keep interesting videos from vanishing from the face of the Earth.
• and a number of other extensions.

One after another they had been killed off with wholehearted agreement and active assistance by Mozilla foundation, who worked hard day and night to kill good extensions. With every next, rapidly pumped out, version of Firefox, one after another the extensions died off. Now the most important extensions are practically unusable and tada! Firefox suddenly does not make any sense anymore. Who wins? Google.

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Finally, something positive! StarOffice 9 works.

Finally, something positive! StarOffice 9 works.

Over the weekend I removed OpenOffice and LibreOffice from all the machines under my control. Instead of that cluster#$@% of bugs I installed Sun Microsystems' Star Office 9 that I sagaciously bought years ago.

The UI of SO9 is identical to OO4, for all practical purposes. It lacks a few side panels that can be enabled in OO4, but they are insignificant for daily use. SO9 also lacks the deluge of complete show-stopper bugs that OO and LO are ripe with.

Finally, spell checker, mail merge, and export to PDF work as expected, without painful surprises.

Boo hoo, Apache! You had taken a perfectly working Sun's software and foobared it. How much crack had you bought for Microsoft's 30 silver?

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