Gmail is taking over my New Tab page
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Back when I checked Gmail in this computer about every hour, I didn't have a single tile with it. Now that a couple of months have gone in which I've only signed in about once a day, sometimes not even that, I have three.
All the other tiles are pinned with other stuff. I wonder if I could have had more Gmail in there.
The URL is exactly the same in every tile, in case you're wondering. And yes, there are other sites that I visit more frequently.
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One of them is different than the other two.
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Ah yes, you're right.
The two on the left are
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox
but the one on the right ishttps://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox
.Somehow I missed the
shva
parameter.
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There you go, there's probably something subtle different between the other two too.
Google loves you. Don't disparage Google. That makes you evil. Google hates evil.
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Back when I checked Gmail in this computer about every hour, I didn't have a single tile with it. Now that a couple of months have gone in which I've only signed in about once a day, sometimes not even that, I have three.
And I was just commenting on this to a coworker last week. I went on vacation 2 weeks ago and a few of my Firefox tiles changed on the morning that I got back. A wiki that I view every couple days for work was gone (as was a couple other things), and a site that visited ONCE a long time ago was a tile, as was another site that I know I haven't used in a few weeks but did use regularly before that.
It's like Firefox says, "oh, I see you haven't visited this site in a while! Screw the ones you use almost every day, go visit this one!"
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people still use Firefox?
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Help! Firefox has all my history and autocompletions and bookmarks and open tabs and addons and the other browsers aren't sufficiently better1 to justify the switch!
1 Yet. I'm sure Firefox will become bad enough in time.
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Yup, never underestimate inertia.
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I'm more concerned that meta.d is creeping up on my tile list in chrome. It's passed facebook and is right behind TDWTF now.
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I'm not allowed to use Chrome in the office. Luckily, I'm not forced to use IE... but even if I do, I have IE11 installed because I needed it to test a page that reportedly wasn't working in IE11. I still don't know exactly why it broke, but forcing it to IE8 compat made it work again.
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Despite having local admin powers so I can install the stuff I need, I'm apparently not allowed to use Chrome if it's properly installed, but am allowed to use the portable version. Go figure.
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Are you actually allowed or just able to?
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According to the jobsworth from desktop support who actually removed Chrome, I'm allowed to.
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people still use Firefox?
I was for about a month after replacing Ubuntu with Slackware on an older laptop. I switched back to Chrome because Firefox was leaking memory like a sieve.
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According to the jobsworth from desktop support who actually removed Chrome, I'm allowed to.
That is very odd.
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It's not the first nor will it be the last silly rule.
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I'd hope that Developers in general would be allowed to.
Heck, where I work they don't even install development tools in our standard builds. Meaning that I'm required to install my own development environment to do my job. Despite my computer being in a high security "zone".
(Side note: Where I work has never explained why security zones apply to desktop computers. I understand why servers have different security zones, but desktops?)
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Where I work has never explained why security zones apply to desktop computers. I understand why servers have different security zones, but desktops?
I don't know where you work, but it seems to me that just like servers, desktops can process different sorts of information.
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I don't know where you work, but it seems to me that just like servers, desktops can process different sorts of information.
True, but they're basically moving all desktops to the M1 security zone (which is the highest zone). Which, if clients and servers use the same security zones, means that all desktops are now in the same security zone as production servers are.
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all desktops are now in the same security zone as production servers are
That's a very special kind of security, right there.
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That's a very special kind of security, right there.
It's not clear what the security means. Physical? Local permissions? Network access / topology?
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It's not clear what the security means.
Well, apparently it doesn't mean[1] what normal people mean when they think of that word.
[1] No "inconceivable!" reference, today.
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It's not clear what the security means. Physical? Local permissions? Network access / topology?
That's part of what's confused me. I know for servers it means how strict firewall rules are for it (i.e. everything is firewalled by default and you have to fill out forms to get open ports for database connections, connections from the web, etc...).
For client machines, it seems to be how hard they're locked down... except developers always have local admin...
Incidentally, it means that central IT is now responsible for Windows Updates instead of our office having its own WSUS server. Which also means that I probably have a completely unpatched version of Visual Studio on my machine since central IT didn't install it.
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The day that I'm told that I can't use Chrome at work is the day that I give my immediate notice.
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The day that I'm told that I can't use Chrome at work is the day that I give my immediate notice.
QFT.
although unofficially i'm using a lot of software i shouldn't have installed (Virtualbox, Input Director, TeamViewer, Cygwin, paint.net, and a few more) if our netadmin ever officially notices them i could be in a lot of trouble.
but he's cool with them, until i get caught doing no-no.