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Re: FireOx | Opera [message #160932 is a reply to message #160922] Mon, 20 June 2005 04:36 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Crimson wrote on Mon, 20 June 2005 09:41

Demolition man wrote on Mon, 20 June 2005 01:13


https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=436


Wow... it took you a couple years but you finally posted something useful again. Razz I was told that extension existed but I hadn't yet found it. A 2 second download and a Firefox restart later, and I have it. Smile

Thats b/c there aren't many usefull topics on this forum. =P
Re: FireOx | Opera [message #160935 is a reply to message #160923] Mon, 20 June 2005 05:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Crimson wrote on Mon, 20 June 2005 03:45

By the way, for those of you who don't hang out in #n00bstories IRC, this discussion took place there as well, and Aircraftkiller has also revealed that "open source is garbage".


"Open source is garbage because it gives assclowns like jonwil the excuse they need to steal code from people."

Try quoting it all next time, thanks.

Oh, and for people that say "saved sessions are only useful when your browser crashes", that is total bullshit. What happens if you forget a URL when you restart your computer, or shut down the browser? What if your computer crashes? Opera saves the sessions properly, without the bugs that Firefuck has with that "extension", and loads all of those websites in a moment's notice upon starting the browser.

I have... 14 websites that Opera loads each time it starts, and it saves me about five minutes of having to enter each URL into a new window each day I start the system. But of course, saving time doesn't matter... It only matters when you promote Firefuck. Sarcasm

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Re: FireOx | Opera [message #160941 is a reply to message #160935] Mon, 20 June 2005 06:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Which is all well and good if that's the way you choose to browse websites. Not everyone does it that way (I don't - the 10 or so sites I visit first thing daily I do sequentially)

You really seem to have trouble with the whole "personal preference" thing. Anything that isn't "yours" is not just wrong, but appears to be some kind of abomination in your eyes, and has to be derided at every opportunity.
That's just plain...weird.

I prefer Firefox over other browsers. It doesn't mean I go round saying how awful "Internet Exploder" and "Crapera" are.

I prefer 3D Studio over other modelling packages. It doesn't mean I go round saying how awful "XShIte" and "Mayass" are.

I prefer UE3 over other 3D engines. It doesn't mean I go round saying how awful Source and whatever the BF2 engine is called are.
(My apologies - I couldn't think of really lame names for those two)

Maybe it's just me. I really can't comprehend the level of fanaticism you have over your own personal preferences.


Re: FireOx | Opera [message #160956 is a reply to message #160506] Mon, 20 June 2005 08:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Fi refox+Browser&word2=Opera+Browser

Firefox owned Opera. Big Grin
Re: FireOx | Opera [message #160962 is a reply to message #160506] Mon, 20 June 2005 09:38 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I'm not having any problems with this extension I installed... it's working as it's supposed to.

And I did NOT misquote you:
[17:54:58] [+Aircraftkiller]: [[07:50:pm]] <+Aircraftkiller> Open source is garbage
[17:54:58] [+Aircraftkiller]: That's all I said

You also said:
[17:50:50] [+Aircraftkiller]: Open source gives assclowns like jonwil excuses to cheat people out of credit for the things they've made

However, once again you show how uneducated you are on this subject because what you don't like isn't "open source" software as a whole, but the GPL license which is one of several licenses available for open source software. This particular one aims to prevent people from profiting from someone else's open source software. It's the same as saying you don't like all food because some food is released in a green package and you don't like the color green.

Overall it doesn't matter. Everyone but you can see that you are grasping at straws to support a weak argument. You can't handle being proven wrong so you'll continue to pull stuff, essentially from your ass, to support an argument because you could never just "stand corrected" on something.

I think perhaps your main problem is that you dislike the "religion" and "fanboyism" attached to this browser. Some people have an unnatural obsession with it, like this little piece of software is the creation of the Lord God himself. I think that's ridiculous. I was pretty happy with IE for years and years and just in the last couple of months, I decided I was going to try Firefox. I told myself I would give it the good college try. I would download all the extensions and customizations I wanted, and really use the thing. I even changed my Quick Launch icon to the Internet Explorer "e" symbol to help ease my transition into the unfamiliar. And, well, I liked it. And if someone asks for a referral for a browser, I'm going to refer this one. Just as I can refer people to several other types of programs that I use every day.


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Re: FireOx | Opera [message #161017 is a reply to message #160511] Mon, 20 June 2005 14:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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ACK wrote on Fri, 17 June 2005 17:48

http://www.scss.com.au/family/andrew/opera/firefox/

Check it out. Tests show Opera is better in almost every aspect.


Firefox won everything in the chart that mattered except for startup memory requirement and java benchmark.

And EVEN THEN, the chart is 6 to 8 Firefox's lead.

And of course there's throughput, where Firefox proves much better than Opera. Then, without bothering to determine what it was, the author of your site passes it off as "my setup", whatever that means.

I have never used Thunderbird or Opera e-mail, and so I have no opinion on them.

But really, both Opera and Firefox are perfectly legitimate web browsers, and no one can go wrong with either one. The only bad browsers are more or less Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator/Communicator/whatever it is.

EDIT: Crimson brings up an interesting point...

Crimson

Overall it doesn't matter. Everyone but you can see that you are grasping at straws to support a weak argument. You can't handle being proven wrong so you'll continue to pull stuff, essentially from your ass, to support an argument because you could never just "stand corrected" on something.


ACK, do you have any reason at all to believe that the Clintonites trashed the White House right before they left it to George W. Bush?

Of course you don't, but since you can't stand to acknowledge it, you're going to avoid my post like the plague now.


"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt (1918)

"The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect "domestic security." Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent. --U.S. Supreme Court decision (407 U.S. 297 (1972)

The Liberal Media At Work
An objective look at media partisanship

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Re: FireOx | Opera [message #161023 is a reply to message #160506] Mon, 20 June 2005 14:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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forgot about googlefight.com, I liked this googlefight:

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=fo otball&word2=soccer


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Re: FireOx | Opera [message #161024 is a reply to message #160506] Mon, 20 June 2005 15:01 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Thats kind of an unfair fight though. "American" football +"British" soccer vs. "American" soccer.
Re: FireOx | Opera [message #161035 is a reply to message #160506] Mon, 20 June 2005 15:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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LOL! I put in AircraftKiller and DJM, and DJM had: 712,000 results, whereas AircraftKiller had only: 745. Im gonna mess around with that some more...

http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/6192/campfiresigred7rb.png
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/2544/hmminiinferno9sb.jpg
Aircraftkiller wrote on Wed, 31 May 2006 22:30

I've been Nodbuggered. =( =( =(
Re: FireOx | Opera [message #161077 is a reply to message #160506] Mon, 20 June 2005 17:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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it traced other abbreviations or names with DJM, not the DJM we know Whats That

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Re: FireOx | Opera [message #161079 is a reply to message #160506] Mon, 20 June 2005 17:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Still, that is kinda funny. I put in Crimson and Blazer, and Blazer got alot more. Blazer had over 1,000,000 results.

http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/6192/campfiresigred7rb.png
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/2544/hmminiinferno9sb.jpg
Aircraftkiller wrote on Wed, 31 May 2006 22:30

I've been Nodbuggered. =( =( =(
Re: FireOx | Opera [message #161111 is a reply to message #160506] Mon, 20 June 2005 19:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Blazer = coat. :S

No. Seriously. No.
Re: FireOx | Opera [message #161144 is a reply to message #160509] Mon, 20 June 2005 23:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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deadfive wrote on Fri, 17 June 2005 17:46

bigjoe14 wrote:

It's Firefox, not FireOx.


Aircraftkillers twin.



You being a fucking retard doesn't make him Aircraftkiller's twin. He could have torn you to peices for that mistake. In fact, he was quite nice about it, so why don't you thank him for saving you from the rest of us dumbshit!


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Re: FireOx | Opera [message #161933 is a reply to message #160506] Mon, 27 June 2005 20:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Thanks to Firefox's Adblock extension, I can block ANY ads from ANY website I visit frequently. This includes flash ads and iFrames.
Re: FireOx | Opera [message #161937 is a reply to message #160506] Mon, 27 June 2005 20:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Why do you need an ad-blocker extension for Firefox when it already comes with an ad-blocker built in?

WHATEVER, FAGGOT
Re: FireOx | Opera [message #161940 is a reply to message #160506] Mon, 27 June 2005 21:03 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Uh, I wasn't talking about pop-up ads... I was talking about actual ads on a website.
Re: FireOx | Opera [message #161949 is a reply to message #160506] Mon, 27 June 2005 21:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Firefox has a popup blocker builtin...the Adblocker extension is different in that it lets you block selected images and/or iframes from sites, so they just do appear at all.

You can optionally toggle a setting that stops any flash on the site, unless you click and allow it.

You can block specific adds and frames, or entire sites/domains like clickthrough.com etc.

Here is a quick example of http://www.slashdot.org:

Before
http://www.n00bstories.com/image.fetch.php?id=1363447139
After, removing the ads iframe
http://www.n00bstories.com/image.fetch.php?id=1219047973

And here is before and after when reading a story:
Before
http://www.n00bstories.com/image.fetch.php?id=1027903467
After
http://www.n00bstories.com/image.fetch.php?id=1301462968

Once you block the iframe, the ads stay gone forever (unless you remove the filter)...it's quite nice Smile

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Re: FireOx | Opera [message #161956 is a reply to message #160506] Tue, 28 June 2005 00:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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And what's better is that you can completely block any ads coming from a certain advertiser by adding this after the main URL of the advertiser: *
Re: FireOx | Opera [message #161960 is a reply to message #160506] Tue, 28 June 2005 01:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Thereby helping advertisers pull their advertisement programs off most websites, which leads to having to pay to view a website in the future. Yes, that's most certainly worth not seeing a few images or some lines of text that can be easily ignored. Sarcasm
Re: FireOx | Opera [message #161972 is a reply to message #160506] Tue, 28 June 2005 05:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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No, because while we can block ads, idiots like you cannot.

No. Seriously. No.
Re: FireOx | Opera [message #161973 is a reply to message #160506] Tue, 28 June 2005 05:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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i only block annoying ads with it.
Re: FireOx | Opera [message #161979 is a reply to message #161960] Tue, 28 June 2005 06:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Aircraftkiller wrote on Tue, 28 June 2005 04:39

Thereby helping advertisers pull their advertisement programs off most websites, which leads to having to pay to view a website in the future. Yes, that's most certainly worth not seeing a few images or some lines of text that can be easily ignored. Sarcasm



Aircraftkiller,

Do you click the ads on your favorite websites?


























Thought so.
Re: FireOx | Opera [message #161982 is a reply to message #160506] Tue, 28 June 2005 07:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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So you automatically assumed that I don't view advertisements... That's quite possibly one of the worst ways to attempt proving any point you were trying to make with that feeble intellect of yours. I will view advertisements that catch my attention. It all depends on what site I'm viewing and what is being advertised. If the website has advertisements related to novels, electronics, weapons, or generally anything interesting I'll probably end up viewing it to see if it's worth purchasing.

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No, because while we can block ads, idiots like you cannot.


How am I an idiot for viewing advertisements? If anything you're the one who has no concept of what you're helping to further online. This "lets block advertisements" movement going on will just come around to bite you in the ass in a few years' time, perhaps even sooner. Then I can come back and say that idiots like you ruined most free websites for all of us, simply for your own selfish convenience.
Re: FireOx | Opera [message #161983 is a reply to message #160506] Tue, 28 June 2005 07:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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One reason I Firefox instead of Opera is because it's under a free license.

The second reason is the fact I don't have Windows anymore.


God is the "0wnage". Plain and Simple.

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Re: FireOx | Opera [message #161994 is a reply to message #160506] Tue, 28 June 2005 10:59 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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I think we have a right and a responsibility to block ANNOYING ads like those flashy epileptic-fit inducing ones, pornography (if you're not into seeing ads for it at the time), sites who have more ads than content, basically anyone who defiles the intended use. Those who intelligently blend google ads or other non-annoying ads into their site are more deserving of having those ads actually displayed.

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