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Browse to https://www.whatismybrowser.com/guides/the-latest-user-agent... and copy the latest UserAgent string for Google Chrome.

In Firefox, about:config > general.useragent.override > new string, click +, paste in the value from the website above, click the checkmark.

This will work most of the time on the sites that hired lazy, incompetent web developers to design their pages -- washingtonpost.com, lowes.com, and the worst offender of all, homedepot.com.


I like this. It should be a status.

"I deficated this issue. Closed."


This was supposed to be "dedicated", but I might also be coming around :)

number-1 type bugs and number-2 type bugs...

> for posterity

Anyone remember this one?

Microsoft Press: Learn Java Now (complete with J++ installation CD). https://www.amazon.com/dp/1572314281


Of course, the reason for the lawsuit, and redoing Ext-VOS ideas with Cool instead of J++, later renamed to C#.

Ironically, Microsoft nowadays not only has their OpenJDK based distro, they even host Java conferences.


The CD is available on Archive.org

I have the book (and CD) on my shelf above my machines in my home office. I vaguely recall buying this at Costco, around the same time I bought the 4 volume Microsoft Press C++ series (for dirt cheap, at the time) from Costco.

MS Press used to publish some amazing references. I have a LOT of 'em.


Steve Gibson, Gibson Research.

https://www.grc.com/freepopular.htm

Just scroll down the page and look at the size of the completely self-contained executable programs. THIS is what Win32 is capable of. Something we always had with Win32 that was thrown away with .Net and C#.

And _please_ just spare me your opinions of how Steve Gibson "doesn't know anything about security". That's not what's important here. What's important is how freakin' small his full-on GUI stand-alone executables are.

EDIT: Just noticed this on his page.

Total Historical Count of files downloaded from this page: 52,292,601


.NET runtime has been bundled with Windows since Win2003.

And if you don't have to drag the runtime around, .NET binaries are even smaller than that, since the bytecode is more compact.


Hmm. I guess I'm living the good life with all of the Firefox configuration changes I've made over the years. I have six right-click menu items and four buttons (page back, page forward, reload, and bookmark):

Save Page As, Select All, Take Screenshot, View Page Source, Inspect Accessibility Properties, and Inspect.

And one additional entry for uBlock Origin at the bottom of the menu (Block Element).


[insert light bulb going on over my head]

This hadn't occurred to me. I think you're right. This could get very interesting over the next couple of years...



See: I.C.E.


ICE exists in a very specific context in one country.

This discussion is, very specifically, about leaving that country for other countries.


At least the headline makes sense to me.

> Most technical problems are people problems

Certainly explains Microsoft Teams and Windows 11.

[note there is no /s -- it's 100% a people problem, because the wrong people are steering the ship]


> JShit doesn't belong anywhere

Or, as I prefer to call it, Kiddiescript.


At least mine was insulting in a punny way


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