On Wed, May 27, 2015 10:46 am, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> On Wed, May 27, 2015 9:46 am, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>> Johnny Hughes wrote: >>>> On 05/27/2015 09:07 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > <snip> >>> >>> Thanks, Johnny. I *just* posted an apology, that I realized it was an >>> EPEL issue.... Talk about an "upgrade disaster"! I think the other >>> admin - >>> he's been here less than a year, is coming to understand why I'm >>> paranoid >>> about some updates, and why we roll out some things stepwise, testing >>> it >>> first.... I see he updated firefox >> >> <rant> >> Speaking of which... the last update ("release" or "upgrade" I probably >> should say, as it is latest version on FreeBSD and on MS Windows I will >> mean here) has nasty changes: it started "blocking downloads that >> potentially contain virus or spyware". It blocked download of > <snip> > Speaking of firefox, does anyone know how to make that idiocy of "Hi! It > looks like you haven't run firefox in a while! Want to restart to a New > Look?!!!" that shows up every time I log in, and doesn't seem to have any > "no, don't bother me, ever" option? > My way of doing that (which took me about 5 years or so, and it _is_ painful) was: switch away from Firefox. I happen to know the guy in person (who was student here) who went to Mozilla Foundation as a production director. He didn't impress me as far as his attitude to software code is concerned. So, I wasn't much surprised when shortly after he became production director noticeable change at Mozilla foundation happened. And as things don't promise to change to decency I finally (5 or 6 years was long way to this decision!) gave up at least on their browser. Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++