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Google cancelled it's annual April Fool's thing.
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Boo 
They had some good ones in the past.
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Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
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Found the guy who likes that sort of thing.
Good riddance, I say.
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dandy72 wrote: Good riddance,
Really?
"Where's Waldo" on Google Maps
Ms. Pac-Maps
Treasure Hunt on Google Maps
gmail gestures...
I found the guy with no sense of humor.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: I found the guy with no sense of humor.
It's not for a lack of sense of humor. I like a good joke as much as the next guy.
There's an endless number of articles being published every year suggesting April Fools is just passé in the age of the internet. It's definitely not just a "me" thing.
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dandy72 wrote: It's not for a lack of sense of humor
I disagree. When google did the gmail gestures, that was hilarious.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: When google did the gmail gestures
I have no idea what that is. I must've missed it[*], otherwise it clearly left no lasting impression whatsoever.
[*] ...which is likely to be the case, as I avoid gmail like the plague that it is.
But hey - you called it, I have no sense of humor. 
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dandy72 wrote: I have no sense of humor.
Last chance for you, here's part of the joke, Introducing Gmail Motion - YouTube[^]
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Last chance for you, here's part of the joke, Introducing Gmail Motion - YouTube[^]
Right...I have a vague recollect. If it's a video, not tied to anything, and that's the extent of it...sure, I can live with that. It's when you have a series of headlines, for example, and you can't tell which is real, and which isn't...that's when things simply get annoying.
Just saw your new thread, which you've started with :
I don't think most April Fool's jokes are very funny.
That's pretty much where I stand. Most people couldn't pull off a good prank if their lives depended on it; most fall flat. So I can do without a day where everyone thinks he's God's gift to comedy. That's all I meant.
I'm glad to see we're not in total disagreement.
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On both my linux desktop and my Win7 VM, I'm using Firefox v74.0 (the latest version).
On the Win7 VM, youtube runs without hindrance (other than the fact that they changed their interface).
On the Linux (Mint) host, I get a yellow banner stating that they "will stop supporting this browser soon", and the get the latest version. Also, the youtube home page doesn't show some of the thumbnails, and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme/reason as to which thumbnails won't be displayed.
Since I'm running the latest version of FireFox, I can only assume they mean that they won't support FireFox on Linux. I say this because I don't get the message in Chromium (open source version of chrome).
Just to be sure, I fired up my Lubuntu VM, and I get the same behavior - Firefox displays the banner, chromium does not. Again, the Windows VM doesn't display the banner either.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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I have latest FF on Fedora 31...
No warning...
You may need a cache wipe-out?
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Already tried that. No joy. 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I used to like Linux, until I started using it. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I actually tried to set it to chrome, and when I did that, CodeProject stopped showing me controls that let me start/reply to messages, and a couple of other sites refused to let me browse to them because I was violating some sort of security protocol that doesn't like spoofed user agent strings. That was really weird, so I undid that.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I don't have FF on a Linux installation, but have you tried using Enhancer for YouTube[^]?
It overrides a lot of the youtube crud, and it comes up in add-on searches set for Linux OS.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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For the life of me, I can't find a way to download/install it...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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OK, so I didn't have a machine with Mint, but I still had a windows machine that I was happy to write over, so I downloaded a mint ISO, which, because everyone in the US hadn't yet had the common decency to go to bed and leave some bandwidth for the rest of us, ran at +/-40kbs.
The good news: During the (subjective) three months it took to download, the latest episode of the Best TV Show Ever* became available, so I watched that for part of the time that I had to wait.
The bad news: The &^%#& 4%^&(()& &%#%&* downloaded ISO was corrupt.
So, "bollocks", I thought, and went for sudo snap install firefox and make it bloody snappy because I'm getting pissed off with all the waiting!
The good news: It seems that the plug-in can be added to FF, straight from the web-site[^] (so it might be that my sending you the address from a windows VM messed up the link).
The bad news: I didn't get the pop-up when I opened youtube, so it might be a configuration thing.
* The Curse of Oak Island, obviously
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Oh, and my FF user-agent string is:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0
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I used to get the "stop supporting" popup too on Pale Moon (firefox offshoot)
try the following
general.useragent.override.yahoo.com
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 (Pale Moon)
you may want to change the (Pale Moon) to Firefox
I just found this googling around... it did get rid of the message (but changed the layout to the more "modern" version) - dun care, on pale moon only use subscriptions, for junk random youtubes I use crome.)
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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I got the "will stop supporting this browser soon" message on Chrome - but it's running on Windows XP so it probably is an older version! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Not here, version 74. Mint 19.2 host and Mint 19.3 VM are fine. Don't run FF on my W VM's.
Time to bury another dead chicken in the back yard?
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Then you’ve probably been Mis-sold PPE.
Call me on 0800 09878 and I can help you claim back what you are owed.
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That looks a lot like an ad.
Regular face-masks are encouraged, not to protect the wearer; it limits spreading if the wearer is infected.
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It's meant to ... remember the PPI fun and games?
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