[hamei]

Maybe some good news for us hoarders (they'll "upgrade" me to their new shit when I am long dead and buried !) ... seems like ten-four-fox has become Interweb and this one works on newer intel mackletoshes and it's noticeably faster than the older fireflops I was using (71.0p2 which I despise but have to use occasionally when I absolutely have to go somewhere that the older better fireflop can't access) and 48.02 which is still tolerable sort of ... anyway, this Interweb works on 10.8.5 Did I mention it's noticeably quicker than the standard flops ? It's sort of the same nasty look as the newer flops but maybe I could learn to live with that ... given that it's quicker

I wonder if Mr Berners-Lee regrets his rash decision to create this monster yet ?

[Raion]

https://github.com/rmottola/Arctic-Fox

This is nice.

[vishnu]

I scrubbed my Mac lappy and installed Slackware 15 on it. I'm done with Apple forever because, well, because they SUCK!

[hamei]

I scrubbed my Mac lappy and installed Slackware 15 on it. I'm done with Apple forever because, well, because they SUCK!

You are lucky you don't have to share :-)

However, there is one program from bapple that is head and shoulders above the rest and one of the most useful programs anywhere and far far better than anything anywhere else -- Little Snitch. No one anywhere else makes anything comparable.

Beyond that, agree with you in several respects. Apple sucks the big one, voraciously. Both as a company and as software. The only thing they have going for them is, they are not nearly as bad as google.

Did you know that fireflop is down to 5% market share ? Can you believe that ? And can you believe all the acne-riddled little twats programming websites strictly for that crappy-ass chrome shit ? What is this, 1994 ? Could we please stop that garbage ?

If the rooskies bombed san francisco, the good part is it would take out google and apple. It'd almost be worth it.

Anyhoo, this Interweb browser is not half bad. Looks like I was right all these years, take out the gallons and gallons of crap that the fools at mozilla insist on (didn't they learn anything from Phoenix ? nope) and the browser runs better. It's not half bad, considering still crippled by mozilla's shitty code. If you are sentenced to apple, try it.

@raion, I think it's the same guy as arctic fox.

And no, never moving past 10.9.5, the only good thing about mackletosh is that it looks nice. If I wanted flat, I'd run OS/2 which actually works !! unlike this modern shit.

Can you believe that Irix runs programs from 1990 through 2006 or whenever they finally kicked the bucket with almost no hassles ?!?! Fucking apple can't ensure that a program that's two weeks old will run.

Maybe we could just destroy the entire computer ecosystem and go back to 2005, when things more or less worked ? And hang jobs and gates and serge whatever by their balls at the entrance to palo alto, as a warning to all who enter there ? with larry ellison's head on a pike looking down at them ?

Which fucking imbecile gave apple back to steve jobs ? Just think how much nicer the world would be if apple had picked Beos instead of letting that slimeball ruin the world :(

[vishnu]

Actually, I'm not all that unsat with the way fireflop works now, but I have a hosts file that blocks over 10,000 crap web domains. And I wrote a shell script that deletes everything fireflop tries to keep track of on the filesystem, but note if you have a bookmarks file that you want to keep, this script WILL delete it. I never use bookmarks, I've always felt if a website is worth going back to I can find it again myself without the help of the browser:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

# remove everything firefox-related from the filesystem

cd $HOME

if [ -e $HOME/.mozilla ]; then
    echo "Deleting ~/.mozilla directory"
    rm -rf $HOME/.mozilla
fi

if [ -e $HOME/.local ]; then
    echo "Deleting ~/.local directory"
    rm -rf $HOME/.local
fi

if [ -e $HOME/.config ]; then
    echo "Deleting ~/.config directory"
    rm -rf $HOME/.config
fi

if [ -e $HOME/.cache ]; then
    echo "Deleting ~/.cache directory"
    rm -rf $HOME/.cache
fi

if [ -e $HOME/.pki ]; then
    echo "Deleting ~/.pki directory"
    rm -rf $HOME/.pki
fi

if (find /tmp -name tmpaddon* -maxdepth 1 -delete) then
   echo "deleting /tmp/tmpaddon* file(s)"
fi

if (find /tmp -maxdepth 1 -name mozilla_User*) then
   echo "deleting /tmp/mozilla_"$USER" directory"
   rm -rf /tmp/mozilla_$USER* 1>/dev/null 2>&1
fi

sleep 2s;

if (find /tmp -maxdepth 1 -name Temp*) then
   echo "deleting /tmp/Temp* directories"
   echo ""
   rm -r /tmp/Temp* 2>/dev/null 1>&2 &
fi

if [ -e $HOME/mymoz.tar ]; then
     tar -xf $HOME/mymoz.tar
     echo "Loading custom preferences"
     echo ""
fi

echo "starting firefox"
echo ""
firefox 2>/dev/null 1>&2 &

echo "done, exiting..."
echo ""

exit