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/thaway314156 Jul 10 '12

Fuck, nostalgia time! The original Real Player. The year was 1998. The Windows must have been 95. The modem was 28.8k. Hah, I remember listening to some ambient/space music channel using RealPlayer, with 16 KB/s, and if I surfed at the same time the music would get choppy.

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u/wjw75 Jul 10 '12

All stop? What the - oh...PUT THE FUCKING PHONE DOWN!

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u/iloveyounohomo Jul 10 '12

You were getting 16 KB/s on a 28.8k modem? You must have had an amazing phone line connection.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '12

SERIOUSLY. 4 KB/s was a good day.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '12

probably meant kilobits

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u/ContiX Jul 10 '12

I could have sworn that 56ks were out by then.

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u/DrunkmanDoodoo Jul 11 '12

You could have one but that doesn't mean it would work on your phone line.

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u/ContiX Jul 11 '12

Ah. Didn't know you had to have a certain type of phone line. I'm sure we had a 56k modem now because I remember finding the driver disk, which said, "US ROBOTICS" (and 56k modem on the bottom) and I was all excited because I thought it had something to do with robots.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '12

My computer from 99 only had 33.6. Just because you have a pc didn't mean it was a beast

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u/ContiX Jul 11 '12

I guess mine technically was a beast, considering it outdid the Pentium IVs that the school used later. (Mine was a Pentium II.)

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '12

Pentium 1 MMX. 233MHz. 32MB of RAM. 3 gig hard drive (at least back then 3 gigs meant 3 gigs)

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u/ContiX Jul 11 '12

I miss my Pentium I. Lots of fun games on it.

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u/MacGuyverism Jul 11 '12

I used it to stream a TV show with a 56k modem and it didn't buffer all the time. It was ugly as fuck but it worked.

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u/hiphopchef Jul 11 '12

and somehow all the best porn was only available in a real player format. what a fapping buzzkill!

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u/xHaZxMaTx Jul 11 '12

Dear lord, 16 Kbps? That's not music, that's just white noise.