Message from Barbara,
Al is in Sparta as of late yesterday afternoon taking care of Colin and the home front. I spent yesterday afternoon with Bob and stayed with Frances last night.
We were at the hospital by 5:30am to see Bob before he went down to the OR. He is having a pump put in and the bypass.
Hoping that today will be a very good day.
We are hopeful for a good outcome. I have had several stents put in over the years and know they can do miracles. Best wishes!
Yep, my dad has at least two and possibly three, and each made a big difference in how he felt, for the better..
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I am hoping that everything turns out well.
All the best, Barbara – please let us know when he is out of surgery.
I have a laptop I can put Linux on and send to you for Bob, or send it to him directly. Let me know if you would like me to do that and which distro Bob would like.
Rick in Portland
Barbara, you and Robert have been on my mind daily since Robert’s health got spotty.
My husband and I admire the contributions you and Robert have made to not just the home school environment, but going farther back to the many excellent books you created.
I sincerely hope that today’s surgery is successful and grants Robert many years of high quality and productive life.
^what she said!
nick
(and Jenny, you are the third person besides OFD and me who could open a day. There may be others, like RickH.)
@nick
(Mumbled in embarrassed ‘oughta know better’ tones)
Can’t find my credentials
There are actually six people that can create posts here; two of them are Robert. (Actually, all are admin-level, which I don’t usually encourage, but it’s not my site…)
@Jenny: if you have lost (misplaced, put in a LTS can somewhere) your credentials, you can do the ‘lost password’ thing to get access to post.
Bwa hah! Successfully logged in.
Best wishes to Robert for a successful procedure, and to Barbara for strength and patience.
Well, I got the new version 57 of FireFox today. New and Improved with all new Quantum technology (whatever the crap that is). It is noticeably faster and has new color skins (blander, much blander). It appears that each webpage has its own process now plus a couple of more for good luck.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/57.0/releasenotes/
The only sad thing is that I lost my Autofill add-on.
https://firefox.add0n.com/autofill-forms.html
My Ublock Origin adblocker XXXXXX wide spectrum blocker did update also.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#ublock-origin
Recommended. Bring lots of memory !
BTW, I am running the x64 version of FireFox on Windows 7 x64 with 16 GB of ram.
Best wishes to Barbara and RBT.. Hope the procedure goes well.
I’ve been on the Firefox beta channel since I heard about the new engine. I can’t say I’m unhappy with it. It seems to perform “better”, but I’ve rarely had problems with it before – not like many of the folks on here.
The only add-on I miss is Tab Mix Plus – the only REALLY good tab manager I’ve found. I find 3+ rows of tabs relatively easy to manage. I find scrolling left/right on the tabs to be maddening. It causes me to open more windows. [/grumble-grumble]
And prayers for Dr Bob and Old Farmer Dave.
Yes, it was disappointing that Firefox removed some add-ons, but it is not Firefox’s fault. They have given warnings for more than a year and the “Legacy” add-on developers were way too lazy. Does make you wonder how good their add-0ns really were.
From some of the forums, Mozilla wasn’t really helping at all. Apparently, quite a few of the APIs were NOT ported, so migrating things to the new API isn’t really an option.
For example – multiple rows of tabs – the BIGGEST reason I used TMP – is simply not possible with 57. Many of the other API calls simply do not exist.
So yes, it _is_ Firefox’s fault that some (many?) extensions are no longer available.
Yes, it was disappointing that Firefox removed some add-ons, but it is not Firefox’s fault. They have given warnings for more than a year and the “Legacy” add-on developers were way too lazy. Does make you wonder how good their add-0ns really were.
If you still need a deprecated add-on, install SeaMonkey.