After many years, I recently ditched @googlechrome and switched back to @firefox, and it's wonderful. So wonderful in fact, that I feel compelled to tweet about it.
Here are some of the things that I love about it…
Firstly, you can send a tab to your phone (or vice versa), which is really handy.
I'm sure Chrome used to have this, and then they scrapped it 🤷♂️
Secondly, the "awesome bar". Remember the awesome bar? It's like Chrome's address bar but provides waaay better suggestions from your history.
That article you read last week… about carrots, but you can't recall the title or the site it was on 🤔.The awesome bar will find it.
Oh and you can choose to store your browsing history for more than 3 months, which Chrome won't let you do.
This makes the awesome bar more awesome. And the more awesome it is the less you feel the need to keep lots of tabs open or even bookmark things. Just awesome bar it later
"Multi-account containers" - allows you to separate the cookies of different tabs, so you can have multiple logins for the same site or simply keep parts of your online life separate.
Similar to Chrome's Profiles. But…
…Firefox lets you assign a website to automatically always open in a certain container.
Game changer.
Facebook Container (slightly different concept). Prevents Facebook from tracking you across the web. Otherwise Facebook does this, even if you don't have a Facebook account or aren't logged into it.
A bunch of other great privacy tools, such as tracking protection, built in as standard.
Then we come to the more subtle features, which are what REALLY make me love it…
If you use the tab key to move through the fields in a form, when you tab back to a textarea that you've previously typed into, it puts your cursor back in the same place within the text 😍.
It has an option to switch to new tabs when you open them. No more using your mouse to select that new tab 300 times a day. Whether you've got this option enabled or not, holding the shift key reverses it.
Chrome doesn't provide this, not even via an extension (that I can find).
Switching between tabs with ctrl+tab cycles through them in the *most recently used* order, like it damn well should do.
Again, even extensions can't provide this behaviour in Chrome.
Firefox seems to automatically suspend tabs for you to save memory. And the overall speed and performance is great.
And according to that source, approximately 75% of Covid deaths occur in hospitals, which gives us a total number of Covid deaths in London of 11,053.
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The 2015 King's College London report on Air Pollution put annual deaths from PM2.5 at 3,537 and from NO2 at 5,879. (This is after accounting for a 30% overlap between the effects of PM2.5 and NO2.)
In London, fewer deaths have been caused by Covid-19 than are lost due to air pollution each year.
Yup.
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First, fact checking!..
As of 18/09/20, total hospital Covid deaths in London was 6,172. In-hospital deaths are estimated to be 73% of total. data.london.gov.uk/dataset/corona…
So 8,455 total London Covid deaths.
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The 2015 King's College London report on Air Pollution put annual deaths from PM2.5 at 3,537 and from NO2 at 5,879. (This is after accounting for a 30% overlap between the effects of PM2.5 and NO2.) london.gov.uk/sites/default/…
While CSS and HTML are not a programming language as such, being able to masterfully craft things with them requires a level of logical and creative thinking which is perhaps in some ways harder than "proper" programming. Let me explain…
A programming language tends to have very clear logic to allow "if X, do Y" type things. HTML & CSS also allow you to define "if X, do Y" type things, but through a nightmarish abstraction of a nested document tree and some declarations about how the things in that tree behave.
A voting system needs to be inspect-able by members of general public. For an electronic system that means everything including the hardware, operating system, how/who that OS is installed (by), the interface software, data transfer & storage all must be open to scrutiny.
I've worked as a programmer for 10 years, and I wouldn't be competent at scrutinising all of those things.
If we gave every voter their own cryptographic key for voting, and they knew how to use it, then we could ignore most of the things in that^ list and just check the final data in the #blockchain. But I imagine such a requirement would hinder vast numbers of voters.
"Transporting food by boat emits 23 grams of CO2eq per kilogram of product per kilometer. To transport the 9000 kilometers from Central America to the UK therefore emits 0.27 kilograms CO2eq [9000km * 23g per tonne-kilometer / 1000 / 1000 = 0.27 kg CO2eq per kg].”
The calculation doesn't match the description. Is it 23g of CO2eq per kg of product per *tonne* or per kilometre!
And either way, the result of the calculation isn't right. It would either be 0.207 kg, or 207kg, but not 0.27kg.