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- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -1/+222 hours too late.
- PapaBoojum, on 06/30/2009, -0/+13So... to promote Firefox 3.5, they plan to über-spam several major social media sites for 24 hours?
This sounds like something Microsoft marketing came up with. - AaronMT, on 06/30/2009, -2/+14Firefox Awesome!
- saucercrab, on 06/30/2009, -0/+10wait... what?
- atm259, on 06/30/2009, -0/+5It's not just a browser... It's Firefox...
- sharkydog, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4In other words...
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: tl;dr... Yes. - AdmiralAcbar, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4It'll upgrade your plugins, *****.
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3 I'm waiting with my download ports open.
- WiretapStudios, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3So firefox wants to give the web the shocker???
- FTWmovin2canada, on 06/30/2009, -1/+4Actually, that's a good idea to help stop everyone from trying to download it all at once and crashing the servers like they did with the 3.0 release.
- fanclerks, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3WTF did any of that have to do with whether Firefox is better than Chrome? It was 99.999% bitching about people's writing and .001% about the comparison of the browsers.
- op12, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3Your download ports are going to get the shocker.
- dineth, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2i do love FF... bt it is shockingly ugly till date. y can't they find a better default design/theme... grrrr....
- Darko3d, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2dugg, but u're still missing the point
- brianpeiris, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2Still enough time until the Super Shock
FTA:
We’ll come together 24 hours later at 3:50pm BST on Wednesday, July 1st for the “Super Shock”! At that time, we want the entire world to help us Shock the Web at the same time.
Wolfram Alpha says there's about 17 hours left: http://www73.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=July+1st+3% ... - inactive, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2Awww, you cobbled to together a bunch of grade school insults-good for you! I applaud you the same way I would applaud a retarded child who just managed to stack some blocks. I'm gonna print it out and hang it right on my refrigerator, sweetums!
Although the "Yo' momma" joke was a little weak. Here's a list of some so you can chose a better pre-manufactured, unoriginal insult next time:
http://www.ahajokes.com/ym01.html
But you're right. It would have been excruciatingly difficult too read the other articles about and accompanying comments that have been posted about it the past couple days, and certainly you couldn't be expected to google "Firefox vs Chrome" (It's not like there's a lot of people out there who've *already* written about stuff you wanna know) or take the unimanageable risk of just downloading it to see for yourself, just like the rest of us.
Nope. Better to act like a helpless, lazy tool and pester a whole community to give you feedback, instead.
So waddya think, aenillus,? Think maybe-just maybe-that's why nobody gave you any serious feedback, hmm? HMMMM? - gordigor, on 06/30/2009, -1/+3That's stupid.
- aenilius, on 06/30/2009, -2/+3So I've been using chrome since it came out, and before that i used ie (i know, i know, but it always worked for me)
Is firefox really that much better than chrome? luls appreciated, but honest opinions would be great. - DailyCavalier, on 06/30/2009, -2/+3More info at the campaign page: http://bit.ly/ShiretokoShockCampaign
- aenilius, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1tl/fwi
- Giever, on 07/02/2009, -0/+1Pretty sure that was the joke. :o
- armo, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1I'm confused, it says
Super Shock Wednesday, July 1st 3:50 PM in Brazil (BRT)
and then later it says
at 3:50 PM (BST) on Wednesday, July 1st,
Which is it Brazilia Time or British Summer Time? - brianpeiris, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1@armo I misread it, it's Brazil Time
- aenilius, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1not by a longshot. ***** you and your safari, ***** you and your opera. all i asked is if firefox is better than chrome. preferably so that someone with extensive usage on both could give a heads up not so ***** douchenozzles like you could ***** on my question just because yo moms told you she was lying all those times she said you "fill her up so good"
not my fault you got a small ***** dick. - miketowninc, on 06/30/2009, -1/+2oh chrome my loyalty still remains
- 4321234, on 06/30/2009, -2/+2Ailurus fulgens 3.5
- CBKBAMF, on 06/30/2009, -1/+1Holy *****.
- pins, on 06/30/2009, -5/+5ghey.
do we really need to tweet, fb, myspace whatever about one more lame thing. FF is awesome. tweet's are retarded. nobody cares about your mundane life. get over yourself. - inactive, on 06/30/2009, -2/+2I feel bad for the people in the "last" time zone
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -4/+3Yep. just a browser.
- DerryQuinn, on 08/17/2009, -3/+2This is boring: Isn't bacon awesome?
- vishnus, on 06/30/2009, -3/+2this is gonna be a great shock!! :D
- aenilius, on 06/30/2009, -3/+2shame me for not wanting 4 browsers installed on my system at the same time.
***** you slimper - dexter311, on 06/30/2009, -2/+1\n// ... the Shocker
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -5/+3How bout you just try it and see for yourself, you lazy *****? We're not talking about a piece of really complex, expensive and labor-intensive software-it's a free browser.
Wanna go really crazy? Try Opera, too. Or-holy *****!-maybe even Safari! It's almost like you have multiple options that are easy to explore. - inactive, on 06/30/2009, -4/+2Because the only way you could possibly try them is by installing them all at once, without ever deleting any of them.
Are you done now, *****? - adorkable81, on 06/30/2009, -10/+7Is firefox really that much better than chrome?
SHORT ANSWER: yes
LONG ANSWER: “Since the dawn of time…” comes from one of the most famously bad opening lines that students are apt to stick at the beginning of their essays. It’s a famously bad line because there is no one, in any subject area, that’s talking about anything that’s actually been happening since the dawn of time. Except maybe physicists, but in that case I’ll let them correct me. Even if you’re writing about war, you might get away with the statement that mankind has always waged war, but not that it’s been happening since the dawn of time.
I know a lot of students and increasingly I know a lot of graduate students. These are your TAs and the people who grade your work. It’s painful for me to admit this, but they do make fun of bad writing. Sometimes they’re so frustrated by it they almost beat their heads against their desks. They don’t want to hand out poor grades, generally, but it takes an extremely sympathetic grader (and they are in short supply) to look past poor writing in order to see good ideas.
I want to give everyone the same advice I’ve given to a number of would-be writers over the years. If you want to improve your writing, simply write. Keep a journal. Write letters to your friends and family. Write e-mails (I mean real ones, with paragraphs) to your friends and family. Start a blog. Get into long debates on message boards. Anything. Writing is writing and it all builds into a general improvement of your skills – just like you can improve your skills at football simply by throwing a ball around. It doesn’t need to be formal or intensive. It simply needs to be real writing.
I’ve resisted this advice for some time because I know I have an obvious bias here. I write. I’m suggesting everyone needs to be able to write. Seems like I’m just promoting my own skill set. But rightly or wrongly it is a skill almost no one can do without.
There are other ways to improve your writing and I won’t try to summarize how to do that in a short piece like this. The best other tip I know (in addition to simply writing a lot) is to read what you write out loud when you’re done. I still do that. Not only will you catch bad grammar that way, you’ll also train yourself to avoid awkward and unnatural writing of the sort so many undergraduates produce. The goal is not to write in some contrived way that’s different from real world communication. The goal is to communicate on topics you might not normally discuss but in a way that is otherwise fairly natural and understandable. If it sounds like it makes sense, when you say it out loud, chances are it does.
IN CONCLUSION, Firefox is BETTER than Chrome browser - Darko3d, on 06/30/2009, -10/+2HELLO THIS IS BILLY MAYS, TODAY I HAVE A GREAT PRODUCT FOR YOU
THE FIREFOX 3.5
NOW WITH ENHANCED FEATURES SUCH AS THE ICON FOR YOUR SPECIAL WINDOWS 7
BUT THAT'S NOT ALL
UPGRADE NOW, AND WE'LL DISABLE ALL YOUR PLUGINS FREE OF CHARGE
THATS RIGHT FOLKS, FREE OF CHARGE - inactive, on 06/30/2009, -14/+3Oh, fer chrissake, it's a goddamn browser. What is this, the third thread today?
Get over it.
