Posted: 9/21/2008 5:58 AM
Post subject: FireNes -- Yet another add on to Firefox.
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pirate_sephiroth
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So, here we are in this boring saturday night. Some random google searches lead me to that. Review (in english): http://firenes.en.softonic.com/ Original site: (in spanish) http://www.firenes.com.ar/ Install link (v1.2, from original website) http://www.firenes.com.ar/firenes-1.2.xpi As you can see it's some Firefox addon that runs NES games. You can even use a controller, with the help of our old friend JoyToKey. Anyway, I didn't know where to post this, but to me it looks more off topic than other emulator.
"Genuine self-esteem, however, consists not of causeless feelings, but of certain knowledge about yourself. It rests on the conviction that you — by your choices, effort and actions — have made yourself into the kind of person able to deal with reality. It is the conviction — based on the evidence of your own volitional functioning — that you are fundamentally able to succeed in life and, therefore, are deserving of that success." - Onkar Ghate
Bisqwit wrote:
Drama, too long, didn't read, lol.
Posted: 9/21/2008 6:07 AM
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... why
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Posted: 9/21/2008 4:16 PM
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Because. This must've required a really bizarre combination of very low-level coding (emulators) and very high-level coding (web browsers). Unless they just hooked into an existing emulator...that'd be kinda lame.
Pyrel - an open-source rewrite of the Angband roguelike game in Python.
Posted: 9/21/2008 7:17 PM
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^sorry
Para lograr esto FireNes utiliza un emulador web llamado vNes.
"To obtain this FireNes utilizes a Web-based emulator called vNes."
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Posted: 9/22/2008 5:13 AM
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Yeah, it's basically a shortcut to http://www.virtualnes.com/
"Genuine self-esteem, however, consists not of causeless feelings, but of certain knowledge about yourself. It rests on the conviction that you — by your choices, effort and actions — have made yourself into the kind of person able to deal with reality. It is the conviction — based on the evidence of your own volitional functioning — that you are fundamentally able to succeed in life and, therefore, are deserving of that success." - Onkar Ghate
Bisqwit wrote:
Drama, too long, didn't read, lol.
Posted: 9/22/2008 6:22 PM
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There are all kinds of completely pointless Firefox addons. I think I saw one that was simply a Tetris clone game. (actually, now that I think about it, there are probably hundreds of those)
Posted: 9/23/2008 12:20 PM
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On the other hand, a few are amazing, like Tiny Menu, Stop-or-Reload Button, and Download Statusbar, and I also enjoy Mr. Tech's suite of addons (along with the standard-issue security extensions like Adblock Plus and NoScript). Then again, it's been a long time since I've used Firefox or any of its derivatives on a regular basis; I briefly switched back when FF3 came out just to try it out but it didn't wow me away from Opera. This reminds me, I'm surprised that Flock still hasn't migrated to being based on FF3 and saddened that Netscape stopped developing its excellent browser (which in its later years was based on and an improvement over Firefox) just months before FF3 was released; Flock contains the latest fixes in the FF2 line (2.0.0.16), but Netscape 9 is still based on Firefox 2.0.0.12!
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Posted: 9/23/2008 10:04 PM
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The only ones I use: user agent switcher, chatzilla and downthemall
"Genuine self-esteem, however, consists not of causeless feelings, but of certain knowledge about yourself. It rests on the conviction that you — by your choices, effort and actions — have made yourself into the kind of person able to deal with reality. It is the conviction — based on the evidence of your own volitional functioning — that you are fundamentally able to succeed in life and, therefore, are deserving of that success." - Onkar Ghate
Bisqwit wrote:
Drama, too long, didn't read, lol.
Posted: 9/23/2008 10:44 PM
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At least Opera is free nowadays. Some years ago it was not free, which was the greatest obstacle for many.
Posted: 9/24/2008 2:56 AM
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Warp wrote:
At least Opera is free nowadays. Some years ago it was not free, which was the greatest obstacle for many.
I remember when I first heard about it, back then it had become free but the free version was still ad-supported so I didn't think much of it. Then one day after I had gone a bit too hog-wild with adding extensions to Firefox (I think this was shortly after FF2 came out), I heard that Opera had become both free and ad-free, and then I tried it out for a while and the only reasons I ever considered going back were that it is not as customizable (but it turns out to have a great deal of features available natively and with minimal performance impact) and that it is not open-source.
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