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  • In current versions of Firefox you hover your mouse over a non-active tab […] to see (after a small delay) a tooltip containing the web page title.

    Uh… what is the point of that? If I am looking for a specific tab then:

    • I probably want to switch to the tab that I am looking for, so staying on the current one is not required
    • if there are a few tabs from different pages from the same domain the difference might be hard to see on a thumbnail (similar page headings with logos)
    • and most importantly: opening the tab is faster than waiting for the delay anyway

    This sounds like a “cool” feature that’s looking for an actual problem to solve.





  • I like how the majority of the list is “stuff that doesn’t exists on Linux can’t be properly used on Linux”. Yeah, no fucking shit, Sherlock.
    I also like how it’s supposed to be about the “average user” and then lists a ton of stuff that’s only used in niche applications when put in relation to the entire desktop market.

    Additionally:

    People that run old software / games because not even those will run properly on Wine;

    A good amount of old games won’t run properly on Windows anymore, either.

    I can’t see any of the downvotes that DerisionConsulting mentioned, possibly because I’m on kbin, but I can absolutely understand why people would downvote this completely braindead article that doesn’t mention a lot of the actual issues (i.e. hardware compatibility on laptops, friction from the slow transition from X to Wayland, inconsistent user interfaces, updates breaking stuff on some distros, …).


  • This is generally good advice. Would you run the program without a sandbox? No? Then you probably shouldn’t run it inside a sandbox either.
    You can never be sure that the program isn’t using a flaw in the sandbox to break out or is just piggybacking onto a whitelisted action that is required for the program’s basic functionality.

    And if some program requires r/w for your entire home directory and network access then you might as well not use a sandbox in the first place because it can already do everything useful that it needs to do.