Been using Firefox for 80%+ of my use cases, but whenever I need to make a payment online, it is easier to just use Chrome which stores and syncs payment methods.

And I am amazed how Firefox doesn't have profiles unlike Chrome, or at least the implementation is so counterintuitive (I use "Personal" profile as a Facebook container for instance). On the other hand, Chrome profile switching and isolation are just still so good. I hope this is not some patent-protected thing which Firefox can't just copy for good.

If Mozilla team is reading, here is some direct feedback for why I couldn't completely switch over.

It is hard to keep your vision limited on the interiors of a car when driving a convertible, because no roof. Looking outside gives your vision sensory alignment with the orientation fluid in your inner ear.

In a non convertible, your vision senses betray what your balance sense perceives (motion instead of stillness) and the body decides it’s time to throw up whatever poisonous stuff made you

Add to it the ecosystem of libraries which are virtually non existent for Flutter. Even Google (pioneer of Flutter) doesn’t have all their standard SDKs ported for Flutter.

We played around with Flutter for a total one day before ditching the idea altogether (in favour of native Android with Kotlin)

> We played around with Flutter for a total one day before ditching the idea altogether (in favour of native Android with Kotlin)

I've made several apps in Flutter and so far I'm actually happy with it. I look forward to the next project. I can easily understand why it's not for everyone, as it's true that not all standard SDK's has been ported.

And of course, not all projects are suited for hybrid solutions in any case.

Someone pointed this out to me on Twitter this morning and it's an aspect I didn't even think about. Most third-party SDKs have a JS version which generally (not always) works with React Native. Can't really say the same for Dart, so you're almost always doing a native integration or building it yourself.

A client I worked with long back received a similar threat, and she replied "I don't have $10000 like you requested, I do have $20; would that buy you a nice coffee wherever you live?"

The blackmailer(s) responded with a single alphabet "k" and it was sorted within hours of the first email.

This made me visit SO and respond to a "noob" query right now. I hadn't answered any SO questions in probably over a year.

Fair warning. That does add a certain level (quite significant) of inconvenience to existing users though. But probably a happy trade-off for most people entrusted with protecting accounts.

Slightly off topic, but why Gmail built a feature of Dots Don't Matter is beyond me.

Might have been a happy accident for all I know, but it changes the behavior that people expect from emails, which IMO is a bit of an inconvenience for other systems that rely on uniqueness of email addresses.

> What kind of ridiculous project structure do you have?

Obviously one that was supported in every preceding version of Android Studio. When making consumer-facing tools, it is the job of the tool maker to make sure that it doesn't break.

If something works in a version, and breaks in another, guess who is to be blamed? (hint: not the user)

Oh, it's messy.

In brief, if any of the said applications require Registry entry, it denies that through the permission model that these systems have installed.

If it requires altering some files under some directory, it denies that as well.

Some corporations even restrict such shady websites altogether using an exhaustive list of restricted domains and subdomains, often maintained by a third party, who do this list maintenance full-time for corporates like IBM, TCS, just to name a few.

On top of it, almost all network and device activities are tracked, flash drive ports disabled, etc. to ensure "security".

(Only a handful of underpaid device managers have access to Admin account. Forget the fact that this still doesn't prevent them from doing so at their discretion, or credentials sharing)

While this would remind one of planned obsolescence, this could very well be something less sinister- the sheer scale at which manufacturing happens. Families have grown manifolds since the golden age of quality manufacturing. More demand in the market leads to reckless research / planning / manufacturing, and therefore degradation in quality. There's a reason why craftsmanship is dying, and the reason might very well be that lesser and lesser number of people want it anymore.