Re: Firefox 13 Release Notes

My bloviated meandering follows what David graced us with on 5/31/2012 
10:36 PM:
> On 6/1/2012 1:28 AM, Sailfish wrote:
>> My bloviated meandering follows what David graced us with on 5/31/2012
>> 9:52 PM:
>>> On 6/1/2012 12:39 AM, Sailfish wrote:
>>>> My bloviated meandering follows what David graced us with on 5/31/2012
>>>> 9:24 PM:
>>>>> On 6/1/2012 12:09 AM, Sailfish wrote:
>>>>>> My bloviated meandering follows what David graced us with on 5/31/2012
>>>>>> 8:50 PM:
>>>>>>> On 5/31/2012 11:36 PM, Sailfish wrote:
>>>>>>>> My bloviated meandering follows what David graced us with on
>>>>>>>> 5/31/2012
>>>>>>>> 5:29 PM:
>>>>>>>>> On 5/31/2012 7:31 PM, Greywolf wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 31/05/2012 11:00 AM, David wrote:
>>>>>>>> [snip /]
>>>>>>>>>>> It's new!!!  It's different!!! I am afraid of change!!!.<sigh>
>>>>>>>>>> That comment is unworthy of you. Just because something is new
>>>>>>>>>> doesn't mean it's better. I'm fed up with change for change's
>>>>>>>>>> sake.
>>>>>>>>>> Novelty is no recommendation. In fact, most new things fail
>>>>>>>>>> because
>>>>>>>>>> they are merely different.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> And you may have noticed that I'm proposing something that is
>>>>>>>>>> (unfortunately) actually new in the Firefox world: treat the
>>>>>>>>>> user as
>>>>>>>>>>  someone who can decide for themselves what they would like to
>>>>>>>>>> change and what they would like to keep.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> In other words, treat the user as an equal.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Wow! What a concept!
>>>>>>>>> Sir, (I'd respectfully call you by your name but you are using an
>>>>>>>>> Alias)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This is *not* mandatory. It is a new *feature*. You can use it
>>>>>>>>> if you
>>>>>>>>> chose. As can everyone else. Or you can not use it if you chose. As
>>>>>>>>> can everyone else.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Nothing with this is forced on you. Or anyone else. It defaults to
>>>>>>>>> off.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> In Fx13 it defaults to about:newtab which displays the most used;
>>>>>>>> however, there is a small box at the upeer right corner that, when
>>>>>>>> clicked, reverts it back to a blank page.
>>>>>>> Thanks Sailfish. Which is what I said? A new feature? Yes or no?
>>>>>>> And in
>>>>>>> no way a *disaster!!!*.  <sigh>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> It could have been my misunderstanding, I thought you meant that
>>>>>> the new
>>>>>> feature for a new tab was to present a blank screen as it did in past
>>>>>> releases.
>>>>> The 'new' feature? 'New Tab" did that and still does. Blank New Tab for
>>>>> the browser page.
>>>>>
>>>> With Fx13, it default to displaying thumbnails of your most often used
>>>> pages; whereas, Fx12 defaults to a blank page.
>>>>
>>>>> The Ctrl-T feature?
>>>>>
>>>> That's always been the keyboard shortcut for New Tab that I recall.
>>>>
>>>>> If you have the 'history stuff' set to 'be gone' the the Ctrl-T shows a
>>>>> plain browser page with barely visible 4x4 blank 'squares'. Else it
>>>>> shows your' history' or 'often visited' sites' as 'screens' where the
>>>>> "barely visible 4x4 blank 'squares'" were. Looks like a smartphone
>>>>> screen. Click on me' really BIG bookmark like stuff.
>>>>>
>>>>> Really nice feature. For me.
>>>>>
>>>> Yeah, but as I mentioned in another Ron's post, since I have history and
>>>> cache erased after every session, the most it will show me is what sites
>>>> I've visited most during the current browser session. It's okay but last
>>>> time I used New Tab in the past 6 months was when I tested out the new
>>>> feature in Fx13 yesterday :)
>>>>
>>>   Then this *disastrous* new feature does not effect you any more
>>> than...
>>>
>>> Seriously. It annoys me to the nines when each new feature for a Mozilla
>>> software is looked at as a *personal attack on ME* (whomever 'me'
>>> happens to be at the time) and most of the panic is caused by the
>>> Newbies, granted that they are Newbies, when panicked by the paranoid
>>> 'no-nothings'. Who truly are *no-nothings* and *paranoid*.
>>>
>> It never affected me in any negative way and if I wasn't so
>> privacy-oriented, I would actually like it. Had you assumed otherwise?
> 
> Hmm...  I think that you and I are having a strange conversation that
> does not actually mean what we say.
> 
> It has been my experience here on this list/newsgroup as of late that
> 'those that do no understand have made more of what is happening than
> what it actually means' and the the panic of the unknowing begins.
> 
:_)

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