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  1. NotHereToPlayGames
    Very true! (That is, as long as you prescribe to the philosophy that "truth" is 'relative' versus 'absolute'.)
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    Same here. But it was not the only "date bug" -- - January 4, 1975 --- overflowed 12-bit field used in Decsystem 10 operating systems (text-oriented Star Trek type game, Pascal compiler, Lisp AI, Fortran compiler [I took a Fortran class while at Purdue in the 90s]) - September 9, 1999 --- aka, 9/9/99 and conflict with 9999 which was commonly used to specify unknown dates - the year 2010 --- dubbed Y2K+10 or Y2.01K - conflict between Binary Coded Decimal 0x10 for the number 10 versus Hexadecimal encoding the number 10 as 0x0A and 0x10 representing the number 16 in Hexadecimal - the year 2022 --- aka, Y2K22 - the maximum value of a signed 32-bit integer - the year 2038 (okay, this one isn't here yet) --- dubbed Y2K38 - only an issue on 32-bit Unix systems
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    lol I did the math also. Kinda surprised somebody else did too. Though I submit that this is not "linear" (I include ESR, Android, and Desktop releases - why? Because I don't think that Android and Desktop "have" to follow the same version numbers, they are two distinctly different products). But that does convolute "number of releases" with "four-digit version number". Wikipedia indicates that Firefox had 11 releases in only 6 months (so I shall average this as 22 for the year) of 2011, 31 releases in 2012, 31 releases in 2013, 32 releases in 2014, 45 releases in 2015 --- see where I'm going? I counted 63 for 2020 -- I acknowledge that counting ESRs, Android, and Desktop releases separately does "inflate" these numbers. 46 for 2021. 22 + 31 + 31 + 32 + 45 + 63 + 46 = 270 270 / 7 = 39 average per year So that at least brings your 70yr estimate down to 26 years So I'll make a bold prediction -- right now we are drawing in very close to three-digit version numbers and if we keep doing decimated versions like 90.0 to 90.0.1 to 90.0.2, that's SIX character spacings. So my bold prediction is that somewhere within that 26 years that we lose the decimal point completely -- we go from 110 to 111 (three character spacings), be don't do any 110.5.0 or 110.5.1 (seven character spacings). And we'll be at those four digits before you know it. Waka waka waka...
  4. NotHereToPlayGames
    Agreed! I've always "hated" the weekly updates. Seems to me that some folks just feel "naked" unless their anti-virus definitions update every twenty minutes instead of every twenty days and so they carry that same logic over to their web browser. The only justification I see for "weekly" is that it makes Roytam's job a teany-tiny-tad easier - update 50 line items every week as opposed to 200 line items once a month. But all-in-all, 90+ percent of the 50 weekly line items have ZERO effect on daily web browsing - you'd have to find the 100 web sites among the 1.7 billion known to exist where that particular line item has "any" effect whatsoever. Unfortunately, we live in a world where folks see 50 line items and assume that each and every line item has a direct effect on "millions" of web sites.
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    lol - yeah, they're already worried about 3-digit version numbers in the User Agent string. And at this rate, four-digit version numbers is quite literally (not figuratively, but LITERALLY) "just around the corner".
  6. NotHereToPlayGames
    I hold that same unpopular take regarding Roytam1, but never really felt that towards Feodor2. Neither here nor there, "it is what it is". Agreed! I was never able to even Resource Hacker that old raccoon and intentionally stayed on an early version of Mypal just to avoide the raccoon. I do definitely look forward to Mypal "2.0".
  7. NotHereToPlayGames
    No issues, D.Draker. Carry on. I'll add this thread to my "out-of-site, out-of-mind" Stylus sheet. I was not trying to take sides but see how it probably looked that way. But correcting people's grammar (not just me, I've seen this done to others) ??? I'm not submitting any of my replies for a doctorate thesis - so I could care less if I mipsel wards are had grammar miptaques hear are their. No dog in this fight. Moving on. "Out of sight, out of mind."
  8. NotHereToPlayGames
    I place my hand on a Bible and swear to God and everything Holy - for the LONGEST time, I assumed these both to be the SAME PERSON. I don't think that anymore, I admit (only one of these two is on my "ignore list"). But I agree, @Jaguarek62, the "always right" persona is nearly identical between these two. Of course, I also say that as a person whom my own father accuses me of always being right and I always return, "Apple didn't fall far from the tree?" or "Pot? Kettle?" and we chuckle and move on.
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    It doesn't hit the Unread Content forty times per day (I exaggerate for "effect", but I wouldn't be surprised if the "update servers" thread exceeds that in a day), so no, I don't see the need to hide 3.1
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    To be perfectly honest, I could care less where they are at. My bookmark is the "Unread Content" link. Then I tinker with my Stylus custom style sheet so that "popular" threads that I could care less about (StartAllBack, decommissioning of update servers, what do we even do at this point, anything with "kernel" in the title, anything with 95, 98, or 2000 in the title) are all completely hidden - out-of-sight, out-of-mind. Don't care about 'em, don't even need to see them on "my" Unread Content list. Whoala, "problem solved".
  11. NotHereToPlayGames
    Try this on for size -- that website shows a tiny 0.49% of worldwide desktops run XP. Sounds about right to me. Then according to here we have 339.77 million Personal Computers in 2021. 339,770,000 times 0.0049 = 1,664,873. I love my XP, but I was expecting worldwide XP machines to only be in the tens of thousands, not 1.66 million.
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    I technically only "looked" for stats for Mozilla versus Chrome, I didn't care about the teany-tiny players with teany-tiny market share (which Mozilla barely exceeds what I would call "teany-tiny"). After my several years with GreenBrowser then my several years with Sleipnir, I learned it wasn't really important to distinguish them from IE because they were only a front-end "shell" for the IE engine. So "to me", Mozilla is Mozilla. Market share is market share. Not really important "to me" (as far as market share goes) if IE means IE8 or IE9 or IE10 or IE11 -- IE is IE. Not really important "to me" (as far as market share goes) if Mozilla means Quantum or UXP -- Mozilla is Mozilla. Not really important "to me" (as far as market share goes) if Chromium is 360Chrome or Edge or Chromium or Chrome or Ungoogled Chromium or Vivaldi or Brave or Iron or Iridium -- Chrome is Chrome.
  14. NotHereToPlayGames
    Most of the stats sites I found all lumped all Mozilla flavors as Mozilla and all of Chromium flavors as Chrome. If you dropped Firefox and migrated to MCP, you did not add or subtract from the Mozilla number.
  15. NotHereToPlayGames
    To add a little perspective, 2018 population was 7.602 billion (data.worldbank.org) and 2021 population is estimated at 7.927 billion (worldometers.info). So we added 325 million to the global population while Firefox lost 50 million in the same time span. I personally don't think that Firefox can "right the ship" at this point. Firefox was always a bit of a "niche market", but feel free to DuckDuckGo / Bing / Google the phrase "is firefox dying" and enjoy the reading.
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    I view it more along the lines that hackers want to hack as many computers as they can. Between 2018 and 2021, Firefox has lost 50 million users. In 2018, there were about 244 million users, that number is now down to below 200 million. That loss is staggering now matter how you look at it - "rose-colored lenses" can't even make those numbers look 'good'. So if Firefox overall is down that huge, what percentage of those are Quantum versus Pre-Quantum, Rust versus Pre-Rust? Why would a hacker target 1 million users if s/he can target 199 million users?
  17. NotHereToPlayGames
    MSFN has undergone code changes. I have not tracked it down to know "where", but Proxomitron clearly indicates that there has been code changes. The keylogger now makes it past Proxomitron. Unless I changed my Proxomitron config, I'll have to double-check. Not really interested in this becoming a "cat and mouse game", so I'll just rely on my own site-specific keylogger blocks for now. Disregard - I set a javascript flag for a different web site but my regexp caught this site by accident.
  18. NotHereToPlayGames
    I have a circular slide rule somewhere. Used it during the college days to "show off" to the professors that I could do logarithms "without a calculator".
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    I've also used Win 10 non-stop since it was released! I'm "forced" to use Win 10 at work. But not even three brand new computer purchases since the release of 10 has me using 10 here at home (one of those three came with 7, the other two came with 10). So congratulations on purchasing a new computer - but until you revert back to XP and not run Win 10 that came with that new computer, this thread does not need the "pollution" of discussing anti-XP sentiments. I'll leave the "last word" to you, I've said what I needed to say.
  20. NotHereToPlayGames
    I'm "old". My first computer was a Commodore 64 (still have it). I've been using XP non-stop since it was released in August of 2001 (when it was released to manufacturing [Research & Development Laboratory where I worked as a college intern], retail stores did not receive it until October 2001). I was running AutoCAD at the time that still used a "tablet" mouse (a mouse with a magnetic crosshairs pickup zone and a huge tablet with "icons" and large "template" sheets where you could change the tablet "icons"). I remember it to this day because IT was concerned about whether that "tablet" mouse would run on XP (it did!). My point remains - I have no interest in this thread turning into a conversation on how "unsafe" it is to be using XP - we that use it are already aware of this and we do not read an NT-Family OS thread to be hit with "use Linux" or "use 10" or "XP is insecure" !!!
  21. NotHereToPlayGames
    Please leave that to those of us that use XP. XP users do not visit Linux forums for advice on XP. Win 10 users should not be posting XP advice on "Older NT-Family OS" threads. We that continue to use XP know what we are doing! And have our reasons for remaining on XP. We do not need Win 10 users telling us how to use XP! Us XP users are well aware of the "risks" and have weighed those pros and cons ourselves, weighed them against the pros and cons of 7, 10, 11, and we do not need "constant" advice from people not even using XP.
  22. NotHereToPlayGames
    They're 95% identical. I use Humming Owl's notes for hard-coding all but default search engines. I do not hard-code them because I provide preset settings that have the default search engines deleted. They only "return" if you try to import previous settings to a new download and you don't import the correct "combination" of files. Or you get a little trigger-happy and delete too many files out of the profile directory. If the default search engines return, just simply delete them again but it would be helpful if you can track down the root cause. I've never witnessed the default search engines "returning" but a few users have and "profile-mangling" seems to have been involved, difficult to isolate - I plan on creating an export/import tool eventually to alleviate. I make several GUI changes to fix several css issues that Humming Owl does not address. ie, Advanced -> Content Settings -> any of the Manage Exceptions pages and the underlying page will shift up, this does not happen in my versions. Humming Owl's still has a "nag screen" that will pop up only once but I do not recall what "triggers" the "nag screen". Just hit the ESC key if you see a "nag screen" - I think it is when you go to create your first bookmark, don't recall. Mine also does not have a "nag screen" when you close the last tab. Unsure if this is once-only or every time in Humming Owl's releases (I only know that I want to throw a shoe at the computer when I see it, lol). My versions are "portable" and do not write registry strings to the Windows Registry. Humming Owl's do write to the Windows Registry.
  23. NotHereToPlayGames
    Agreed! I've always chuckled that XP calls them "POS" -- https://7esl.com/pos/
  24. NotHereToPlayGames
    Even with me being on XP, even I'll admit that it's been a "tad" annoying as to the GIGANTIC number of posts in the "On decommissioning of update servers for 2000, XP, (and Vista?) as of July 2019" thread.
  25. NotHereToPlayGames
    I haven't bumped into any web site like that (where these features are served to this browser, those features are served to that browser) for YEARS. But I also "despise" 'gaming', so maybe that's why I haven't seen any.
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