2012/5/18-7/20 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:54392 Activity:nil | 5/18 On my Win7 machine, I've been using a PuTTY ssh session to soda as a
proxy for my FireFox to bypass my company's OpenDNS when I visit
http://tv.yahoo.com and so on. It has been working fine for a long while.
However, in the past couple weeks or so, my FireFox would either take
several minutes to load the page, or failes to load it after several
minutes. I haven't changed any settings on my Win7 machine. Rebooting
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2012/4/23-6/1 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:54360 Activity:nil | 4/19 My Firefox 3.6.28 pops up a Software Update box that reads "Your
version of Firefox will soon be vulnerable to online attacks." Are
they planning to turn off some security feature in my version of
Firefox?
\_ Not as such, no, but they're no longer developing this version,
so if a 3.6.x-targeted hack shows up, you're not going to get
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2010/2/18-3/9 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:53713 Activity:nil | 2/18 Why is there now Firefox 3.5.8 when there was already 3.6 a month ago?
\_ Why is there Windows XP SP3 when there was already Vista?
Generally companies manage patches for at least two levels of
product. -tom
\_ I see. So Fx 3.6 is more like a new version than an update to
3.5.x. --- OP
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2010/2/8-18 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Computer/SW/Apps] UID:53695 Activity:kinda low | 2/5 I like Adobe Flash. When written correctly, it scales along
with your browser size. It looks consistent on every single
browser. It is predictable. On the other hand, I'm not a big
fan of CSS/HTML, which for the most part, look wildly different
between browsers, and don't even work consistently or
correctly at times. So why do so many people (like Steve Jobs)
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2009/11/27-12/6 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:53546 Activity:low | 11/27 What did you guys buy on Black Friday?
\_ cold medicine
\_ me too!
\_ Nothing.
\_ I bought a Mac Air for my wife when Mac Mall announced their
"Black Friday sale" on Wednesday. But that was technically not
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2009/10/1-21 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:53417 Activity:moderate | 10/1 I am thinking of installing firefox on soda under my home directory.
Will this make me a hozer?
\_ Possibly. I wonder if we should have another VM for that...btw,
I remember someone saying they're glad we're not on FreeBSD
anymore, but last I checked, a bunch of our stuff is on FreeBSD,
but our login server is not.
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