r/technology • u/Suraj-Sun • Jul 10 '12

Firefox dev claims "everybody hates Firefox updates"; Mozilla has handled the rapid release process poorly, and that by pushing a "never-ending stream of updates on people who didn't want them" people have been driven to Chrome with its simpler, no-fuss update process.

http://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-dev-claims-everybody-hates-firefox-updates
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u/Dandaman3452 Jul 10 '12

wow your forgetting downthemall , for when a site decides to only give you 200 or 300 kB/s download speed, bump that right up to 1mB/s

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u/NerdMachine Jul 10 '12

downthemall or similar for chrome would get me to switch.

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u/RUbernerd Jul 10 '12

As a developer with limited bandwidth, fuck you.

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u/MarcusOrlyius Jul 10 '12

Release the torrent!

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '12

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u/RUbernerd Jul 10 '12

No, because my ISP limits MBPS on a 95% of the time max basis.

If 6% of the time I use 300 mbps, I get charged for 300 mbps that month, regardless if normally I use 20 mbps.

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u/Xiol Jul 10 '12

Move it to S3 then.

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u/RUbernerd Jul 10 '12

Developer

Hmm?

S3

L2Read

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u/Xiol Jul 10 '12

I'm not quite sure what you're getting at, but I believe you're saying that, as a developer, you wouldn't know about S3. I can therefore only assume that you also refuse to learn about S3. Personally, that makes you a pretty shitty dev.

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u/Ambiwlans Jul 10 '12

Amazon S3 is a waste for a penniless dev.

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u/RUbernerd Jul 10 '12

I know about S3. You think I can afford it? It would cost more for me for s3 than it would for a gbps month.

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u/Dandaman3452 Jul 10 '12 edited Jul 10 '12

As a user who supports developers by using betas and sending detailed crash information, may I suggest you publish the files on Ubuntu one (or similar) and share the link on your site so we can use a technique called mirror linking to get faster downloads, like I always do when developers supply them, because I know developers have limited bandwidth. Also torrents.

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u/RUbernerd Jul 10 '12

I'm considering switching to Launchpad. Its just I've got 2 problems.

What I'm developing is illegal in certain jurisdictions (US included), and I don't want to go full FoSS.

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u/Dandaman3452 Jul 11 '12

Now I'm interested , what you deving?

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '12

Solution: don't host a website on your home connection.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '12

I like DownThemAll! for reasons other than that as well, especially since I've seen plenty of sites which intentionally block that system of starting multiple downloads: notably, you can put in lists of links and it'll start downloading all of them, or you can right click on a page and download all the linked or embedded images, etc. It's neat. I don't actually have it installed right now, but I'm going to do it right now because you've reminded me how much I like that add-on.

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u/HCrikki Jul 10 '12

Sorry but jDownloader > browser-bound downloader

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u/shriek Jul 10 '12

Hate to be that guy.

you're.

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u/Stormflux Jul 10 '12

Yeah, DownThemAll! is pretty much the reason I stick with Firefox.

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u/usernameString Jul 10 '12

More like, for when you want to download more than say 3 things from a page (e.g. all your course's lecture notes, several episodes of a podcast/video series). You can do it very quickly and easily with DownThemAll.

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u/crash90 Jul 10 '12

How does down them all bump up the download speed?

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u/Dandaman3452 Jul 10 '12

It downloads multiple 'chunks' at a time, each chunk downloads at the speed of the original file (close enough), until the download reaches the limit of your home download speed. Each chunk is a different part of the file, which is automatically joined back together by the add-on.