• 57 Posts
  • 110 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: October 2nd, 2023

help-circle
  • First of all, the meagre ‘search’ in ‘Manage Bookmarks’ does not tell you where a ‘found’ bookmark IS, which makes it next to useless. (If ONLY it would tell you that in the list you see when you click the URL.)

    Over the years (on DESKTOP, I can only guess the horrors on tinyscreen) I’ve developed a system of folders with generic names that I use to sort BMs as I add them. My 3 top categories - the only ones visible in the ‘Toolbar’ are OFTEN (frequently visited sites grouped by folder), RESOURCES (folders at the top are most-visited) and LOCAL (most-visited on top). I also use the ‘New bookmark order’ extension, which adds new bookmarks to THE TOP of whatever folder I put them in (easy to open and drag-into folder topic).

    Works, but it’s hardly ideal, that’s for sure. Don’t think anyone at Moz has addressed this design in years.)







  • After many years of using FFox, I just tried a Zen install on Linux. It did not turn out as well as I hoped.

    I did not have FFoxesr installed in the way the OS would have installed it (though it was still in the user folder). This meant that Zen did/could not see my bookmarks, extensions or passwords … and the options it offered didn’t work out. (It wanted an HTML bookmarks file … I had them saved as JSON … and a ‘CSV’ (??) passwords file … wherever that is … and it found no extensions folder.) So, for starters, years of customizations had to be manually restored.

    But, fair shake, I did manually re-install bookmarks AND a few extensions that had saved databases (e.g. UBO, NoScript, Block site). (It ignored the sub-folders in the JSON bookmarks folders, dumping all bookmarks into the top-levels.) And I had to re-create all the settings. (Most of which exist in the .mozilla folder on Linux … easy to find.)

    I played for an hour with what I put there (without a menu bar … or a tab bar, all URIs are shoved together -by name- in a sidebar … I did figure out how to see a bookmark bar). I could discern no -truly useful- advantages to it. None. That was not offset by some pretty cosmetics. So even if you do get all of your customizations past the one-size-fits-all install, for long-time FF users I see no substantial advantages to the Zen browser.







  • That’s good to hear.

    Here in the US, I haven’t seen a sign or heard a word from or about Stein this year. None. Also true in previous years. How’s a GP going to get grown if it doesn’t get a voice in and on the news? If the crazy right wasn’t enough, I also notice that the Dems spent some time and money trying to put her down.

    Looking at the GP platform, it seems solid. But, in the US, my position has NO representation in the US. If there is a GP in the US, it’s been very muted. Stein is just a stale placeholder with no voice. That’s not leadership. Every election for DECADES I’ve heard, “oh, not this time. We have to win it back” or “we have to hold on to it”. OK, so when should we vote GP then? Screw that argument. We need another party, and there’s only one way to get there. And that’s quality, visable, vocal, energetic, leadership.

    I looked at Canada’s GP yesterday. They at least have -some- kind of org. in most provinces. IIUC, the GP has two seats in their congress. They got a million votes in 2019. That’s better than nothing.





  • For Krogh, the source of the number, it was a quite reasonable estimate, which was about all that was possible at the time. And it was ‘wrong’ by less than an order of magnitude … compared to the newest estimate. AND an estimate of a truly unimportant number is as good as you can get (or need) in many cases. What’s the total length of all the ice cores drilled since Camp Century? And their total volume is?