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Comment Re:Oh, look! (Score 1) 888

Uh, we haven't really had bins in the UK at train stations...well, *ever* since just after I was born. That was an IRA thing rather than the bombing in the Tubes thing, and has been around since the very early 90s. Oddly, they actually started putting bins back on platforms only a few years ago. I guess they realised that unlike the IRA, modern terrorists don't care about blowing themselves up along with their targets.

Comment Re:Thank you, /., for showing me Firefox (Score 1) 116

While in beta, it worked. The release candidates worked. The final versions worked. Tabs and middle click CHANGED what the internet was to me. Java control, add-ons, everything -- Thank you Firefox!
Sorry, but I feel the need to point out that Opera included tabs in the early/mid-90s, almost a decade before Firefox was released finally, and most features that FF users point out as being brilliant are ones which I've taken for granted since about 2000 when I started regularly using Opera. Yes, back then I had to deal with adverts, which after about an hour of use I managed to completely blank out (so much so that when they finally got *rid* of the adverts, it seemed very odd not having a block of what I considered blank space above the page...), but it's got all the features I need in a web browser (without me having to install several dozen extensions to make it do what I want...) and doesn't use up all my ram with only a few pages open for a couple of hours. Right now I have about 90 tabs open. Yes, I suck, and I tend to use tabs rather than bookmarking pages, but that's fine because Opera copes with my abuse. I have 1gb of ram, and I can quite happily run Opera with all these tabs open, alongside WoW, gtalk (which really *does* eat up ram and I wish I knew why...), ventrilo, foobar2k or vlc, etc etc etc... I use FF to check webpages in, and after a couple of tabs it just slows down to a halt, even without half the stuff I mentioned running.

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