Firefox is still ahead of Chrome in several areas.
- multi account containers
- ublock origin (and extensions in general)
- extensions on Android
Firefox has also recently improved tabs with a number of features. I haven't used Chrome in a long time, so I don't know if these exist there.
Firefox just works, and blocks ads, and doesn't randomly decide I'm not allowed to do things it doesn't' approve of anymore (like block ads with ublock origin).
What features does Chrome provide in the last year (that presumably would not yet be copied by Firefox)?
It had problems in 8. I would frequently type my search term, see it was the number one result. I would then attempt to arrow or tab down and hit enter to launch that result. Between arrowing down and hitting enter, the result list would update/reorder and suddenly I'm launching some unknown program. Happened all the time.
This entire article is based on a one sentence tweet with zero details provided.
"Ya I hate that. Working on it." - Could mean anything, which I would argue in this case, is equivalent to being meaningless. Does this mean Hanselman has a team with tickets lined up for the next sprint to allow offline accounts as a first-class workflow? Or does it mean he sent an email to the relevant stakeholders asking, "Hey guys, what can we do about this"?
I am not encouraged that we will see a change in momentum from Microsoft on this issue.
Supernetworks -- ill update. Our initial comment got moderated for too much self promotion so also apologies there and again for anyone who is offended
For .NET only the old legacy .NET Framework, SqlClient was moved to a separate package with the rewrite (from System.Data.SqlClient to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient). They realized that it was a rather bad idea to have that baked in to your main runtime, as it complicates your updates.
The switch from plan mode to build is not always clearly defined. On a number of occasions, I've been in plan mode and enter a secondary follow up prompt to modify the plan. However, instead of updating the plan, the follow up text is taken as approval to build and it automatically switches to building.
Ask mode, on the other hand, has always explicitly indicated that I need to switch out of ask mode to perform any actions.
The first time I recall encountering this sort of feature was in one of the early sim city games. I wonder if this being a feature of Claude indicates the humanity of some engineer behind it, or if it is a deliberate effort to apply humanity to the agent.
The Windows 8 equivalent server edition also included the upgrade to Metro UI. I don't know, I guess MS figured IT wanted to provision Windows services using a surface tablet?
I actually really did like Windows Phones though. I can imagine a world with a third competitor in that space today... But MS didn't seem to have any understanding or ability to develop an ecosystem that works. Even when they were literally paying people to write apps for their app store, it was just terrible.
UUIDs aren't random by design, and the structure is not pointless. Calling something you don't understand "stupid" is probably not a good approach to life.
One example where UUIDs are useful is usage as primary keys in databases. The constraints provide benefits, such as global uniqueness across distributed systems.
The global uniqueness of a uuid v4 is the global uniqueness of pulling 122 bits from a source of entropy. Structure has nothing to do with it, and pulling 128 bits from the same source is strictly (if not massively) superior at that.
Firefox just works, and blocks ads, and doesn't randomly decide I'm not allowed to do things it doesn't' approve of anymore (like block ads with ublock origin).
What features does Chrome provide in the last year (that presumably would not yet be copied by Firefox)?
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