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Skipping the reason why, I gave the server-guy at our place an Admin account on my box to fix a really weird problem w.r.t. server access/recognition. No problem with that - it was fixed in a day or so.
Unfortunately, his account was a new instance and when he opened FireFox it did an update, updating all (only one instance on machine). Suddenly I went from Ver.56 to Ver 62. I lost three add-ons. They changed the interface and didn't care to maintain backward compatibility.
Well - one of them, FireFTP, I was sort of preparing for and had a configured FileZilla ready to roll. The other items, including Better Privacy, really didn't have an adequate replacement. OK - I thought I'd just adapt and get use to the new version. Besides, it's a better match to what the company's VM was serving to users.
Man - that thing really sucked. A good deal of yesterday was spent fighting with it. Privacy settings didn't let me manage cookies - and even when I logged off (yahoo, for example), suddenly it knew who I was - and the storage manager they have? It opened in their debugger and was basically useless. Consider hours were eaten up trying to make this thing usable (and maintain privacy). As they say - screw it.
I had two options at hand: (1) roll back to ver 56 if I can, or (2) change to WaterFox.
Fortunately, despite much discouragement on the part of Mozilla, I did finally get a download of Ver 56. It restored two of the plugins. FireFTP, which had apparently been wipe (not showing in the plugin/addons) had to be downloaded from the author's site. Joyfully, my configurations still lived on.
So, it seems Mozilla is where those genius' that ask us to do their homework, via Q&A, have found a suitable work environment.
It may be time for me to go shopping[^].
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This quote covers all the rest, from Kohelet (i.e., King Solomon):
"Anything that can be done has been done;
anything that can be said has been said;
and there's nothing new under the sun."
Thing of it as a container object.
I have some quotes of my own - yet, unsurprisingly, some of them have been around for centuries.
To find: Google "Balboos" and then pick "BALBOOS' Contemplations & Such" (usually on top). Some will be dull; others will not. To quote yet another famous author: "What Me Worry?"
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W∴ Balboos wrote: there's nothing new under the sun
I agree. Just find it interesting how phrases enter the common knowledge. 
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I was tempted to have an Abraham Lincoln quote[^]
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's a good one!
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u can run 56 from another folder C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox56 after you download and install it.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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I, for the present, have no interest in keeping a version beyond 56 - I don't see it giving me anything but hassles. Perhaps a continuation of the cell-phone mentality. "Don't Worry - Be Happy".
Much akin to who heavy users of the accursed devices forget that there are real words, punctuation and capitalization conventions so as to enable prose written by one are readable by another.
For home, I'm considering Konquerer.
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Oxygenation
I thought this one was an easy one. Obviously I was wrong.
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I was nowhere.
Bull, OX
it's the alternative Y (instead of X?)
millenials GEN
who are located AT
at the net charge, ION
supporting the environment
Nope, I had "OR" for the alternative, but that was my lot!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Millenials are sometimes known as Gen Y. I switched around (made it the alternative) of Y Gen.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Millenials are sometimes known as Gen Y won't U do it 4 me?
FTFY! 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I suppose I could have put "entitled brats" in the clue.
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Nah - we'd all have been trying to fit "QA" in there ...
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Lots of posts in the forums are suddenly nameless; a group of people decided that they do not even want to use an alias. Some teacher probably explained that their dumb questions could be traced back to them in the future, and to avoid using a name.
How do you adres someone who has no name? Should the board allow it?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Some teacher probably explained that their dumb questions could be traced back to them in the future, and to avoid using a name.
Ask them what [useless] school they go to...
I mean a good teacher should explain to them to use a search engine and never ask dumb questions.
... and what happens when us knowledgeable and wise old folk pass on and the only ones left are the always-ask-never-search generations???
(I guess there's AI - but if AI becomes really smart surely it too will get sick of them idiots and respond with "RTFM you dumbass".)
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Thanks for the link, missed that 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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To quote Fool's Gold by the Stone Roses:
Quote: I'm no clown I won't back down
I don't need you to tell me what's going down
Down down down down da down down down
Down down down down da down down down
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I don't feel that people should be allowed anonymous accounts. If you're hiding behind an alias, it's too easy to display bad behavior that really has no consequences. Note that the web admins will write you a stern email and I do recall a few people being banished many years ago. Other than that...
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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It's a bug which Chris is working on.
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As I mentioned in the bugs & suggs thread, you can execute the following in your browser's dev console as a temporary workaround:
$("a[href]:empty").each(function(){ $(this).text(this.getAttribute("href")); });
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
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I've been using FireFox exclusively for about 2 months now and I really like it.
However, there is an issue with "infinite scroll" and I'm wondering if others have seen it and/or found a fix.
It's just an interesting thing.
On pages like Linked.com, plus.google.com which continue to scroll there is an issue where the browser wants to "skip" a bunch and auto-scroll further down and it forces you to slide back up the page. It's quite annoying.
Have any of you seen this? Anyone found a workaround? Just curious.
Yes, I did google but didn't find much. I did find where Scott Hanselman talks about this feature but can't tell when that post was created (Infinite Scroll WebSites via AutoPagerize - Hacky, but the beginning of something cool - Scott Hanselman[^])
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how are you scrolling, wheel on mouse or old school style (vertical scroll bar on page)? If by mouse, try another mouse, and DON'T set the scroll to smooth. See if that works.
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Slacker007 wrote: how are you scrolling, wheel on mouse or old school style (vertical scroll bar on page)?
Good question.
I'm just grabbing the vertical scroll bar and moving down. At some point -- probably where the page requests the next page -- it jumps. It's a very odd thing.
I also just noticed that if I click the scroll bar's bottom arrow I get a weird redraw effect too.
Thanks for chiming in with ideas.
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