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if i leave the dongle in (a front port) after this, within a few minutes my wired mouse and keyboard (in back ports) lose power. this time i pulled the dongle immediately and that has not happened yet cannot run lsusb; it just hangs. actually pretty much anything that tries to look at usb devices just hangs. kernel also gripes regularly about a hung __usb_queue_reset_device task, so that checks out unaware of anything that resolves this situation besides a power cycle

@glyph what i find most frustrating is that firefox mostly makes headlines when its own users are really mad at it, usually for doing something chrome is already way past doing, so the impression is just always negative. i love firefox and i am desperate for them to give me an excuse to foist it on people. instead i get "wow firefox is bad because it's doing AI" and meanwhile i opened chromium today for the first time in a while and there's an "ai mode" button IN THE ADDRESS BAR

@glyph surely there's a bit of a distinction between "google individually employs most of the chrome team" and "google pays mozilla for a service" vivaldi isn't even a rounding error. they have no weight to throw around and certainly not enough manpower to actually hard-fork and maintain a browser engine

@glyph @dotstdy maybe it has something to do with that monkey paw i was holding when i said "i wish KHTML were more feasible to use"

@glyph see they ARE making a really good web browser. the engine people seem to be good at what they do and care about doing it well. but (a) that's not very compelling when chrome is like, good enough, and (b) management keeps making boneheaded frontend decisions

@Gargron@mastodon.social i guess i don't see how contributing to google's browser monopoly is an improvement

@glyph @ancoghlan they aren't bookmarks, though. they're a todo list. and anything that goes into a bookmark folder vanishes forever because i don't see it it's not really about the number of open tabs though, it's that firefox has https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ and chrome does not (and cannot, because chrome's ui has no sidebar to put it in, so the best you can do is a clunky overlay)

@glyph @dotstdy i genuinely have no idea what happened. but given the enormous grassrootsy push it took to get firefox significant market share, and then chrome jumping from 0% to 25% in under three years despite having a pitch mainly consisting of "it's a bit faster i guess", i don't have any other real explanation beyond observing that google is/was a dominant search engine and virtually everyone looks at their website(s) every day

@glyph christ it took google well over a decade to make the tab bar scroll instead of just turning tabs into points and making them unreachable. like no one on the team ever had more than two websites open at a time. made it feel like a toy

@ancoghlan @glyph this is not feasible in chrome.

@glyph @dotstdy yeah that was annoying. i can't gauge how much it might've factored in globally since Most People™ seem to have like, three tabs open at a time mozilla was between a rock and a hard place there i think, since electrolysis could not avoid breaking virtually every extension, and that ecosystem was a big thing people liked firefox for. chrome and ie8 had nothing to break

@yildo i mean specifically chrome. edge is tracked separately in browser stats

@glyph @dotstdy does ubuntu just update snaps in the background without even asking, is that what's happening here

RE: https://pony.social/@cadey/117345350382428128 i did once try the dongle on back ports and the same thing happened, which seems to suggest either my whole motherboard is dying or it's something about the dongle specifically. but i have half a dozen other usb things and none of them have had problems (until the dongle somehow takes everything else down with it) i think when this was first happening it only broke the other front ports too. now it breaks everything. that's weird. and ominous

@EndlessMason oh please do shout all you like https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/bd-p/discussions

@ati1 i have also aimed it at mozilla

@glyph i have no idea what these numbers mean looking at https://arewefastyet.com/linux64/cold-page-load/overview?numDays=60 and the differences (where chrome is also measured) go both ways and are generally miniscule. the worst comparison seems to be amazon and trying it myself i see very nearly identical behavior very funny that bing apparently loads faster in firefox though

@dotstdy @glyph there was something about this in release notes a few versions ago? but i only do full-system updates so i'm condemned to a reboot afterwards

@dotstdy @glyph like the video right under the navy bar with the number of attendees/sessions/etc? i'm also on linux and can seek that fine, forwards and backwards?? anchors are in 147 in two weeks chrome won't play webgpu for me either; allegedly it only supports intel and only as of the last few months. as a bonus it does this truly outstanding keming