so, i'm going to have to avoid the vlogs for a few days. i'll be continuing to vlog - when i get back to it, they'll have to come up quickly until i catch up. but, i just don't have the computer resources to multitask at the moment.
why?
exhibit one is what it looks like when i open a thread on youtube in my browser. youtube seems to be doing something in it's scripting that breaks older versions of firefox, at the html level. it looks like there's a tag here that is aligning the table incorrectly. it is resolvable by upgrading.
however, i do not want to upgrade for ui reasons. if firefox would like me to upgrade, it's going to have to restore my ability to change the ui to the way that i want it. i know that there are plugins, but it's not good enough. it could just be a question of finding the right about: config options.
for example, i should have the right to default the ui back to square tabs. and, i should have the right to combine everything to two lines, to provide for more space. a picture is attached. the modern firefox ui (the ripped off chrome ui) is just wasteful.
i don't want it and will resist it until the end. i will use a fork if i have to.
i want to be clear that it isn't about security settings. i don't believe in "internet privacy". the internet is a public place! it's incoherent: a contradiction in terms.
but, the chrome ui sucks. i don't want it and i won't use it.
this is particularly problematic for me at the moment because i'm archiving - i'm tracking down old youtube reply threads, copying them to an output file and deleting my contributions to them. i can't do that in firefox without updating, as you can see. so, for now, i've been using an updated version of firefox in a virtual machine [with a ui plugin to eliminate the hideous chrome update].
i also edit vlogs in that same virtual machine. i simply do not have the resources on my 32-bit machine to do both things at once.
uploading the vlogs in a timely manner is less important, in a historical sense, because they will exist, regardless of if they're uploaded. it's just a marketing tool, remember. so, i'm going to halt the uploads until i'm done archiving, when i can get back to multitasking.
(so, it seems obvious that something is backwards in the script. i'm not going to pretend that it's an error - they're trying to force me to upgrade, for some data collection reasons.)
(compact & efficient.
it's just the question of user choice that bothers me. you do what you want. i don't care. just don't tell me how to organize my fucking browser...)