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Episode: 417
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Title: HPR0417: Mozilla Addon usability
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0417/hpr0417.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 20:10:07
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Okay?
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Hi, my name is Gordon Zincler, my handle on IRC is this whole web. This hacker-public
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radio edition is going to be a little bit different. It's on the add-on framework in Mozilla
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Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird as well as the other Mozilla products. I only use those two so
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that's what I'm going to concentrate on. The reason it's a little bit different is because I am
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recording this as a screencast with GTK recording my desktop. The audio of the screencast is
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going to be the MP3 file and the video will be an optional download on IRC. The reason I'm doing
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this is because it's easier to show what I'm talking about than to explain. I'm going to keep
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trying to keep in mind that there's going to be an audio only section or audio only version. I'm
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going to try to remember to describe everything that I'm doing that you could see in the video.
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Ideally, I want this video to be seen by developers of the Mozilla applications as well as the
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add-ons for the Firefox and Thunderbird and whatever. In part, it's trying to suggest
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more user-friendly ways of reorganising things, changes that could be made to make these applications
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much smoother for the users. After the ramblin explanation, I'm going to start off with Firefox
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as I'll go on to Thunderbird later on. I've got this as if you're watching the video. You'll see
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this as the Linux Mint default start page with Firefox. It's also the XFCE Mint for those that are
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curious. It's not the default skin, but not the default theme even, default icons but not
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default theme. Anyway, so what's that off? We're looking at the add-ons. This whole thing is
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about the add-on framework that the Mozilla has. First of all, you bring up the add-on window
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in Firefox. The first thing that you could use for is you can search and the Firefox one you can
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search. In Thunderbird, you can't. It doesn't have a search option. It's different, basically.
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But the search feature is only as good as a result you can get from it. So if you hear, for example,
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on a podcast, they say, right, no scripts is brilliant. You've got to try no scripts.
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Well, so, okay, nope, if I can spell it out, no scripts. So you come in here and you search for it.
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Expecting it to come up and, well, nothing. There's a few there, but no script. No, no script
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theme. So what was it? Was it a no space in there? A no space?
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Oh, nothing. Take away the space. It's not that. So was it somewhere?
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No script. No, there you go. No script with no space.
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Now, if that's something that you know the name of, I keep getting mixed up with.
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Is it singular or is it plural? That shouldn't really make any difference. It's not
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the all of the add-ons for the whole Mozilla suite are hosted with the odd exception.
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And they're almost all hosted on addons.mozilla.org sub domain of Mozilla.org.
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Now, with that, you've got surely there's one group of administrators that are keeping track of that.
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So how is it not, is it possible? I don't see why it's not possible to map various variations on
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that, you know, like the singular with no space script or no scripts, no space scripts.
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I don't see why it's not to map all these variations to the same add-on because that's essentially
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what they're looking for. The site is certainly large, there are a lot of extensions,
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there are a lot of add-ons, but they're not, it's not as if it's Google, you know, it's not as if it's
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going out and having to find some robot rules to go and index the entire internet.
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And, you know, this, especially for the mature add-ons, I've been going on for a while,
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and I've had quite a few revisions, this shouldn't be too difficult to do, it really shouldn't,
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and it would certainly make it so much easier to do that. And, on top of that,
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if the search could actually pick up stuff, not just in the names, but in the,
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in the descriptions as well, it would certainly help. Now, with that in mind, the next thing is the,
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what you've got here, the add-ons section, is basically it's a package manager,
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but not a real package manager, it's a sort of a, something could become a package manager.
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If it was, if it was done right. Now, for those who don't know what a package manager is,
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that's basically the Linux users have been, have had the experience of a package manager for a long,
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long time, whether it's Yum or Yast or Synaptic or whatever. That same principle could very easily be
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applied to the Mozilla Suite as a separate program to handle all the updates to the extensions,
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and installation removal of the extensions right across Thunderbird, Firefox,
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Songbird, CMUNK, whatever. I mean, you could use the package manager model
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and the repository model to do that. And, I mean, that one advantage would be, it would give
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Windows users the, the, the joy and the experience of using a proper,
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meta-proper software manager to install stuff, which gives them a much better head space to
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understand why Linux is, is one of the reasons why Linux is so good, because with Linux,
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you do that with your, with all your packages. You've already got plenty of, of categories and
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plenty of ways to split it up and filter it out. So, so there's that. Now, the, the other part
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that makes this not a package manager is the fact that you've got to install them one at a time.
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With a package manager in Linux, you can search for different things, you can click on it to say
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install, and it won't install yet, what it will do is add it to the queue and let you search for
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more stuff and click and install this next program and, you know, remove that program and install
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this one. And only when you, when you're ready, you can then tick apply or okay or accept or whatever
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that the button's called. And that'll then give you the, the summary. It'll switch to a summary tab
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or a summary window that says that lists all the things that you, all the changes you've made.
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And then, let's, let's just okay it and it'll start downloading and installing them.
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Or you can go back and cancel and go back and, and remove stuff if you've made a mistake.
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Well, you could, you could apply the same thing here and have a queue icon, a queue tab up at the
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corner of here. Call it a queue, call a basket, call an installation, call it whatever you want.
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But something there that would just when you click to add it to Firefox and remember what I'm
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talking about is a, an add-on manager that would cope with, that would cover Thunderboard and,
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and all the different other Mozilla apps as well. So it'll be add to Firefox, add to Thunderboard,
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add to whatever. And it would just silently add them onto this list. Then,
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and, um, which point you could then, 20 already, just click on to the, on the queue or the installation
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tab and see the list and it would all be pre-ticked. You can then go down and, and un-tick the ones
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you've made a mistake with or clear them or whatever, clear them from the list or, and then,
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uninstall button in the bottom. And once you click install, then it'll go and do them all at once.
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You could even have a running total, you know, it'll take up six meg of, uh,
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of download time, uh, download space or whatever, you know. There's plenty of ways you could,
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you could sort of look at that. Um, you could also set it so that when you, when you close Firefox
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or when you restart it, if you've got stuff in, in your, in your installation queue,
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it could then pop up with a little warming. I mean, at the moment, if I go to close Firefox,
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it'll tell me there's tabs open, there's multiple tabs open. Uh, you're about to close two tabs,
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are you sure you want to continue? I'll cancel that for now. But that's picking up that there's,
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there's something you might want to get a pay attention to. Uh, when you, you can set it so that
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if you're in the middle of downloading something and you go to close it or warn you as well, uh, you can
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set, like, down them all, uh, to continue downloading after Firefox is closed. So you could also have
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that triggered to, uh, if you've still got stuff in the, in the installation queue to, uh, to, to figure
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that and say, look, uh, a little, a little warning that says, or you've, you've got, uh, add-ons, uh,
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that are in, in your, in your installation queue, what do you want to do with them? Uh, and you could
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have various options like, uh, just install all of them or, uh, close or restart without installing
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any of them or open up the manager and let me see them, open up the queue and let me see it,
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which is basically opening this window with that installation queue. So you've got various,
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uh, various options in the way you could do it. Um, what you could also have it triggered
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and they do as well is in the themes. Now, the reason I mentioned this is because ages and ages ago
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when I first came to Firefox, I, I've, I've, I've realized, um, that, oh, there's, there add-ons
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themes and I installed three or four themes and it said when you restart, uh, to, uh, to install
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the themes and I did that and none of the themes that still looked the same until I realized that
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I had to actually come in here and click on the, on the theme I wanted and use theme in the end
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restart. So you could also have that same, uh, installation trigger or the closing trigger, um,
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thing to remember to work out that, hey, you've just installed a, you've, if you've installed
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any themes in that session, in that browsing session, for that, that to pop up and say, oh,
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you've installed new themes, do you want to switch to a new theme when, when you Firefox
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re-starch, no, or, uh, if it's yes, it brings up the, this themes, uh, part of the, of the add-on
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manager, you can select it and then continue to, to restart or close down or whatever, whatever
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it was you were trying to do. So that sort of integrates things and off a lot more in the, in
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the add-on manager. And even if you have the one add-on manager as a separate application,
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rather than, uh, something that's built into Firefox or built into Thunderbird, um, not only
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can you tie it together, but you could also run that on its own without Firefox and then go through
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and create a new profile and add this set of, of preset, uh, add-ons into it and have it install
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with various settings into that profile or export that profile out to a file, uh, out to a USB
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stick or, uh, you know, and you, you could do, um, I mean, right now, I don't have Thunderbird open,
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but with that add-on manager, I could say, right, I'll add this to Thunderbird, this, this, this,
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I'll add that theme, I'll use that theme, uh, I'll add this, this, this, oh, songbird as well,
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I'll add this, this, and this, this to songbird. I don't actually use songbird, but that, that was a, um,
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if you've listened to my other episode, I'd rather, I'm rather fond of my audacious, uh, just here, um,
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so that's, there's lots of advantages to doing the package manager style approach,
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to Thunderbird, um, and that package manager could be basically a separate program that ties in,
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uh, to, to every other, uh, Mozilla, uh, application.
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Oh, right, so with that in mind, um, onwards, this, so at the moment, as I said, you have to
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install, uh, manually one at a time with, with Firefox and Thunderbird. Now, if you see down here,
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um, happened to be on, on the page, that's the Firefox up, the Firefox, um, add on. You can install
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add on two ways as, as people know, you can click on it here, uh, and then the, the, the window opens up,
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uh, a huge, huge window, uh, that covers the add on, add on manager of the add on menu, add on window
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even, uh, it, it's huge. I mean, there's a lot of wasted space there, as well as it's covering buttons
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and, and all the rest of it, but we'll install that for now anyway, because we won't know.
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Um, the,
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right, this is another issue as well, um, the, the fact that the, the menu comes down, this,
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not menu, this notification, slides down there. Now, any application that comes in at the top
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like that, and slides, uh, everything else below it down is not a good idea. I'll just install
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something else here, uh, save your eye, just to point out something, or point out why, so if I add that,
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and install. So if we're going to, uh, crystal quote, that happened rather quickly. The point
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or what I was trying to do there, um, but you can imagine it anyway, is if while that's installing,
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and when there's no message there, you can line up to press, uh, to, to have a button underneath
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the mouse. Underneath the pointer, just about to click it, and this, this thing kicks in,
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and as a result, everything below it slides down a little bit. Now, that, that could mean that,
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whatever you're trying to click on, just slides out from underneath your pointer.
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Now, I'm, I'm not the only one, but that drives me absolutely mental. I hate that. I absolutely hate
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that. That to me is, is one of the, one of the cardinal sins of a UI, uh, design, is something
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that slides in like that, that make, that forces, uh, stuff to move from underneath your pointer.
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I absolutely detest that. It's one thing to have that space always free, so that it doesn't,
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nothing moves below it. That's, that's one thing. Uh, but to have it slide in like that,
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or even have it slide in at the bottom, where it's not affecting anything else. That's, that's fine.
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Um, well, at their point, that's, that's fine. So, what I was, the other thing that I started
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on the side track from there was in, uh, Firefox has, it knows, if I click on, uh, on a, an, an add-on
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here, and on the website, it knows that, oh, I'm, I'm a Firefox, a typical Facebook, the
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UI, right? Uh, the, the add-ons for Firefox and for Thunderbird are XPI. There you go at the
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bottom there. Um, add-on 8442, uh, latest.exp, XPI. What Thunderbird is the same, their XPI as well.
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But if, for some reason, except an install, well, most, most add-ons don't have ULS, so it'd
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just be installed. Um, you click on it, and it comes up with the usual installer. It knows that
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it's supposed to be Thunderbird, it knows that it's supposed to be Firefox. Uh, so if we go
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and check the Thunderbird once, uh, let's pick the first Thunderbird one that it comes up with
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without any mail. Download now. I mean, where's the install? You have to get all these instructions
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right click and save it as a link and then open it from the tool. It's an XPI file just like the,
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just like the Firefox one. Oh, excuse me. It's an XPI file. Now, whatever is in the Firefox XPI
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to tell it that it's a Firefox, uh, add-on, why can't that same thing apply to the Thunderbird?
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To tell it's a Thunderbird, uh, add-on, so that if you click on that, it knows. Oh, I'm Thunderbird.
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I won't try to install in, uh, in Firefox, I'll install Thunderbird.
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What, I don't, I don't understand why that's, why that's not done. Uh, it just, it seems awkward
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to, to do it the way there is, uh, where it could just be a single, a single click. Uh, the same
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obviously if you're doing what the package, the package manager type approach, you could include
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Thunderbird, uh, in here and it would be the same thing. Add to Thunderbird or add to songbird, add to
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C1K, whatever. Um, I don't understand why that's not done here. Um, I mean, even if, if it,
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if it could be, but if it can't be done in, in like any sort of normal, or hesitate to say normal
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way, really. Um, even if it's a, like some XML statement that reads it as Thunderbird, or even a
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different extension, you know, XPM for mail, or XPT for Thunderbird or something, just something
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that, that can distinguish it. Because this, this is not a good idea at all.
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So, uh, that I have no idea, uh, I've never used a save URI or the, the Facebook one,
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uh, I come on here for no script to do this demo. But anyway, so we've got that all
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on done with. The next thing is the restart. Now, why, why, um, the Mozilla applications have to
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restart to apply plugins? I don't know. Um, I thought that, that was history when I left Windows.
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I guess, um, when you're too used to something working well, um, you kind of resent the fact that,
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you see me be going back in time, um, with, uh, with some, some applications. Now, the, um, in Linux,
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uh, the only time you have to restart to apply anything is when it's a kernel update, or where it's
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a, uh, uh, a video card, uh, a video driver update. That's it. Other than that, everything, every
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update, uh, every installation or removal, uh, is applied on the fly. Now, it might be that,
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because, uh, this, that's just how Zool works. I don't know. It might be that, um, the, the fact that
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it's, it's cross-platform, that it's, it's got to, to deal essentially with the worst common
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denominator, uh, to, to be able to be the same across, um, Windows, Apple and, and Linux. Uh,
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that could be another reason for it. I don't know, uh, but certainly one of the strengths of, uh,
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opera is the fact that when you, you apply or when you install a theme or a plugin,
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uh, it loads it in the switches to it, uh, instantly without having to restart. So you can,
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you can try the, the theme out, you can, uh, you can try the, the add-on out. And if, uh, if you like it,
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one of the one, the, the window that opens up, uh, there's a little, little box opens up and it says,
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do you want to keep this? Yes or no? If you say no, it'll uninstall it and revert back to the way it was.
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Uh, if you say yes, that window, I'll go away and it's already installed. Um, so I would love to see
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that functionality in, uh, in Firefox. Is this restarting? Um, that's, uh, that's very much like,
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it reminds me of too much of Windows. It's not a pleasant, it's not a pleasant thing. Uh, there's,
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anyway, so we'll restart just now. Um, you'll notice here there's two, uh, there's two tabs.
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Now, uh, I state that because there's going to be more than two tabs when it opens up, which is my next point.
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Uh, there may be, well, we'll see.
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Oh, right. Now, we're back in here. Um, the reason I picked, uh, what there you go,
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we've got the Linux Mint, start and page, the Thunderbird add-ons, that was the two that we left.
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And this new one is the no script tab. Now, the reason I've picked no script and the reason
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they're not the only ones that do it. Uh, there's, there's quite a few of the, uh, the add-on
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developers are doing the same trick as when you install, uh, their add-on or when you update
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the, uh, the add-on. It opens up a nice new tab without giving you any option to switch off
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uh, and, and visits their website. Now, in this case, quite often, uh, is their, their page of
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thanks for installing, whatever. Now, it's fair enough. Sometimes it's, it's, uh, like in this,
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in this case, it's like, change logs and things like that. Um, things have been added to the,
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the extension and new features, that type of thing. Now, the, the point I'm making with this is,
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first of all, with no script, what do people use no script for? It's to give them control
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over what scripts open and what, what ones don't. Uh, and no script to make sure their own page gets
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a hit. Uh, I've decided to just exempt themselves from that, uh, on the installation or update.
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Uh, the, as far as the, the information that it's given you, most people couldn't give two hoots
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about any of this. This is just a page of text that only means something to the people who are
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interested in it. Average users couldn't care less about any of this. I understand some of it,
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not very much, but I'm not interested in looking at it. The people who are interested, uh,
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in, in finding out which cross-side script and updates have been, have been fixed and, you know,
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that's fine. They can look into that. They, they know they can look into that. For most people,
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they couldn't care. So why have these, this tab open up, uh, to, to, to destroy them that,
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you know, what they do care about is, is it installed properly? Now, if that's the, if it was a,
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a tab that opened up in the case of an error, to say, or the, the, the add-on was corrupted.
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The download was corrupted. Something went wrong, you know, read, read, download it or whatever.
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That's fine. I have no problem with that. Or if it's a, if it's something else you have to do
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to take and figure the add-on after it's installed, then that's, that's fair enough, but I'll,
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I'll get to that in a minute. If it's just a change log or a thank you for installing whatever,
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then please, for the love of God, leave it out. Don't have these tabs opening up.
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Because, I mean, I'm at the point now where there's, there's a few, uh, add-on websites that I'm
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really tempted to block because of this behavior. No script is one of them. Um, every update.
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I mean, if you install 8, 9, 10 add-ons and one go and then you restart and you open up and you
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find all of a sudden you've got boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, you've got five or six tabs opening up.
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To me, I don't care what these tabs are. My response is going to be close, close, close, close, close, close.
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I don't need to, to be thanked for installing something. I don't want these tabs to open up.
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Now, it's one thing to do them when, when they're initially installed. But, to keep doing it every
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time they're updated as well. You know, it just seems like a cheap trick to get extra, extra hits
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to bump up the rankings, the search rankings. You know, I respect the fact that these add-ons are
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free, free of charge. In a lot of cases, the, the free software as well, like, like no script as,
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as GPL, it's open source. I respect that. And I respect the fact that they need to, they need to,
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to help raise their profile on, and, and the seating donations. I respect that. It just gets
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really annoying to have these, these tabs keep in, opening up like that. So, that's, that's one
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of them. As I said, the, there are reasons why, reasons why it's acceptable, or understandable.
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And Foxy Proxies, the, the example of that. And, I don't know if I mentioned earlier on. I've,
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this is about the eighth take of this. I want to do it all on, on one go, because I'm doing a
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screencast essentially. But anyway, Foxy Proxies is one of the, the add-ons that, it will find that
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whether there's a space or not, in between the Foxy and Proxie, or if it finds it. Some don't,
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customize Google, doesn't, no scripts as I've shown, doesn't, Foxy Proxie does.
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Now, once we install Foxy Proxie, that also opens up a tab.
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And we'll restart there. Foxy Proxie also opens up a tab once it installs or once it restarts.
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But that tab is, it's understandable, because in part it tells you that you still have stuff to do
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before it's configured and ready to run.
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Which is fair enough. It's disabled. Now, again, we'll come in or wizard. Now, this is an
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expert. Some add-ons do need this, these extra steps to configure to set up different things.
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Foxy Proxie is one of them. There are, there are a lot. But why does it need multiple boxes?
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I mean, if you open that one box, the wizard guide, you get one question. So, you assume that's it.
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Would you like to configure Foxy Proxie to use with Tor? For use with Tor? Well, yes, that's
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that one question. You can't move on. There's another question. Are you using Tor with Proxie
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or without? Okay, without. And that's, no, there's more information it needs.
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About the porch. So, okay, that. Do you like DNS requests? Oh, yes. And at this point,
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if you don't know, you're starting to wonder just how many questions are going to be sitting?
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Haven't you answered? Before this thing starts to run.
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And there's another page in the ProxySens. Now, you've got, okay, usually when you get to that stage,
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you're looking at the okay and thinking, right, that's it. I'll just click that and all the rest
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will close and it'll be installed and it'll be run. No, okay. No, there's another window coming up.
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Congratulations. Okay, in another window, do you want to restart to, for it to take effect? Yes.
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Now, why is it not possible? If you, if you've got an add on requires all these extra steps
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and after it's installed to get it working, why can't you design that to be in one window?
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Pop up one window and ask for all that information and then hit okay.
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Sometimes it might not be possible. It might need two windows, but it's certainly a lot better than
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five or six. Just one after the other. I mean, not whole. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, except, yes,
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that's window stuff. That's, that's like, that's like, that's like, 1990s installing stuff, you know.
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There's a better way to do that. You don't need all these, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
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10 stock stuff. So, that about covers it for Firefox. Now, the,
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I'll just quit that. The next one is Thunderbird. Now, Thunderbird has different issues.
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As I say, it's a, excuse me, it's a different, a different add on.
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It's a different add on a window in Thunderbird. Now, actually, I should have mentioned
|
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the, in fact, I'll close that again. No, I'll start back up again. Now, you'll notice that I don't
|
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have any accounts set up here, any email accounts. Well, I've done a clean profile of Firefox,
|
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a clean profile of Thunderbird for this, this HPR episode. So, that's the reason.
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You'll notice here, account was up. Now, that, I don't know whether it's a good idea to have
|
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this keeping popping up every time. I don't know. It just annoys me. Every time I've done this,
|
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screencast, each time I open Thunderbird to start this part of it, I have to cancel and then confirm
|
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exit. There's no, there's no reason why it couldn't start like this, essentially, with, with no
|
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pop-up, no windows to close, because you can always have a new account, a new, new, new account.
|
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You can always click from there, but then again, some users might not know how to do that,
|
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so having that window pop-up, I suppose it's fair enough. It's a bit inconvenient for me,
|
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but I sort of understand why it's there, or having like a button somewhere, you know, for a new account,
|
||||
but anyway, back to the add-ons. This Thunderbird has a different add-on window. First of all,
|
||||
there's no search feature here, so that's one kind of downer. With the add-on, add-on,
|
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manager, along the lines of a sort of a package manager, that could all be combined, which is
|
||||
said behind it. But in its current state, when you go to install a package, you would expect that
|
||||
install opens up the web page, but it doesn't, it opens up your local stuff you've already had
|
||||
download. So, the first thing to notice is you cannot select more than one at a time.
|
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You cannot select more than one at a time, you've got to do them just once. So,
|
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well, down them all. Then again, big window popping up, three seconds to wait, installed one at a time,
|
||||
yes. And this is the point that jumps over to the installation tab. Now, to install the next
|
||||
plug-in of the next add-on, you've got to first go back to extensions and then down to install
|
||||
to get the next one. Okay, three seconds to one install now. And again, back to the installation,
|
||||
that gets really tedious, especially if you have to do one at a time and you've got quite a few.
|
||||
The same with the themes, again, you're installing themes from the same way, install three, two, one,
|
||||
yes, install now. Again, the same thing applies from
|
||||
as far as having to use the theme, I don't know. That could be a thing in the installation,
|
||||
it's picked up that, oh, you've installed a theme, we'd like to switch to a foreign reboot.
|
||||
So, the other thing that I noticed here, I don't remember if I mentioned it,
|
||||
not in this in this take, was the restart option. Now, given that you have to restart in both
|
||||
Firefox and Thunderbird to apply these updates, why is restart not an option in here?
|
||||
Why is it not part of the core function of these programs because you have to restart to do it?
|
||||
To my mind, it should be there. That way, I could close that just now,
|
||||
go on, I mean, if I had an email account set up at the moment, and this profile, I could go on,
|
||||
send, do some stuff for email, and then think, oh, right, I should, I've got updates to do.
|
||||
Come in here, restart. Rather than having to come back into the add-ons,
|
||||
and then installation, and then restart, it just seems a bit more to give more options and more
|
||||
flex about it, and the way things are done. So, I think I've rambled a wee bit there.
|
||||
So, what I'm going to do is sign off that, let's say the audio of this is going to be the MP3
|
||||
file in the HPR feed, and the video will be the optional download. Now, I hope that
|
||||
that Mozilla developers are going to look at this and take some of these ideas on board
|
||||
and do what they can with them. I understand there may be limitations with
|
||||
Zoom itself, or with other complications that I don't understand. I'm not a programmer,
|
||||
but hopefully some of that can be implemented somehow into these applications, because
|
||||
both of them are fantastic. They are really, really good apps, but they could be better.
|
||||
And if we can give a wee and a free software community, if we can give Windows users a taste
|
||||
of package management, it will blow down minds, because that's one of the things that always
|
||||
seems to be to impress people when you show them Linux and how to install things, you show them
|
||||
the package manager, how they can just search through a big catalog, and click, oh, hover that,
|
||||
I'll hover that, I'll hover that, and it's not just trial versions, it's proper software.
|
||||
So at least the add-on manager would give them a taste of that, still within Windows,
|
||||
but for the Firefox, further Mozilla add-ons.
|
||||
Then you've dangled the little sweetener out in front of them, and then you can say, look,
|
||||
you come over to Linux, your whole system can be managed like that,
|
||||
and just watch the eyes light up, and have them hopefully begging you for more information,
|
||||
and free disks and things. So anyway, I was ending on a bit of a positive note, I think.
|
||||
So, I'm going to end it there, my name is Gordon Sinclair, my IRC handle is Thistleweb,
|
||||
my, if you want to contact me by email, it's Thistle.webcast at googlemail.com.
|
||||
I have no doubt missed some things, because as I said, this is a bit of fifth or sixth take
|
||||
that I've done. I think I've covered everything this time, I hope. So anyway,
|
||||
this has been another episode of the Factor Public Radio, and thank you for, for
|
||||
going to the time to watch it. Have a good day.
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