[SLL] Laughing down Firefox today at my work...

[chupacabra]

But i'm an old fart who always left mosaic/netscape up in CDE on 
Slowlaris in the day.  My habits have not changed in 30 years.  I just 
never saw the point of always shutting down anything.  Unless of course 
it hoses your machine in a couple of days.

Xeno Campanoli wrote:
> Pann McCuaig wrote:
>   
>> A silly question, perhaps. Why leave firefox running when you're asleep?
>> Why even be logged in anywhere (other than in a detached screen) while
>> you're asleep?
>>
>> Let me rephrase that. "Why on *Earth* . . ."
>>     
>
> Because, dear Pann, it is a new world.  You do it for the same reason
> you forget to turn your dome light off in your car when you go in the
> house, or for the same reason you neglect to turn off your stereo, or
> the livingroom lamp when you leave the house.  Some people who live neat
> and well organized lives will never have the problem, but most users
> will have a better experience if the cost of those experiences are
> mitigated.  Software is after all not a matter of aligning with logical
> ideas, but of meeting the needs of a user population as they manifest
> themselves.  As the Linux user population is edging up toward 1% of all
> those connected to the Internet, the Linux world will better meet those
> needs by accommodating that new pool rather than presuming they should
> be made into more heavenly beings.
>
> Besides Pann, I though you only ever used Lynx...?
>
>   
>> When I'm asleep I'm not logged in anywhere (and therefor firefox is not
>> running anywhere), and about the only time I have to kill firefox is
>> when I stumble on an ill-behaved Pr0n site.
>>
>> To each his/her own, of course.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>  Pann
>>     
>
>
>   


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