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THE PETTICOAT REBELLION OF 1916
WOMEN GAIN RIGHT TO VOTE, SUCCEED IN OVERTHROWING GOVERNMENT
Or something like that, might have been Newspaper Headlines of the day.
The real story is that on December 5th, 1916, the polls opened at 8:00am in the small town of Umatilla, Oregon, for a municipal election. And there was not a woman in sight.
Until.
At 2pm, the women showed up in droves and with write-in ballots, they proceeded to elect an all-woman council: a coup d'etat, of sorts.
The story is at:
https://www.damninteresting.com/the-petticoat-rebellion-of-1916/
http://mentalfloss.com/article/63262/laura-starcher-and-petticoat-revolution-1916
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The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election
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(Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Tuesday December 06 2016, @01:18AM
well, thankee very much, stranger, not only hit the nail on the head, but i guess i will fish around for better alternative to firefox on tablet... kind of ditched chrome because i got tired of googs being eee-vil... (after they pwomised they wouldn't ! ! !)
it seems to happen to some sites MUCH more frequently than others: the intercept is nearly ALWAYS bad for the space odyssey monoliths showing up, zero hedge is another, and others... some seem to not do it at all, and some sporadically... definitely has a tendency to be after browsing a lot...
thanks again...
oh, actually annoys me that firefox tries to open up the last window state which caused it to shut down; been there, didn't do that, let's not, not do that again, shall we, firefox ? ? ?
(Score: 2) by Marand on Tuesday December 06 2016, @01:51AM
You probably won't find a better alternative; despite that annoyance I still preferred using mobile FF to the alternatives. Mobile Chrome's inability to use addons makes it borderline worthless, in my opinion; Opera has been garbage since they decided to become Chrome in an Opera skin suit; and the rest of the mobile browsers just seem to be Chrome reskins from unknown sources, sending data off to their servers in random countries and somehow managing to make Google look like the lesser evil.
I went down this route when Firefox started frustrating me and ultimately ended up right back on Firefox. The only other browser worth using was the old pre-Chromification Opera, but I don't even think that's on the android app store any more and even if it is, it's unusable on higher resolution devices.
Good luck with it either way, I remember it being a huge pain in the ass. To add to the earlier advice, since it seems to be a memory thing, the best things you can do to reduce memory consumption are probably 1. see if any addon is a hog (Adblock Plus might be, as I mentioned, Ghostery as well), 2. try blocking Javascript because it's a source of massive memory use, and 3. try an image blocker like "Mobile Image Blocker" to try not loading images on sites that are troublesome.
(Score: 2) by dry on Tuesday December 06 2016, @07:11AM
I've been using Palemoon, seems to work well and can use most Firefox extensions
(Score: 2) by Marand on Tuesday December 06 2016, @11:16PM
Thanks, but the desktop version of Firefox is still working fine for me for now, and it still has official support for Linux, unlike Palemoon. (I'm aware of the unofficial PM Linux builds.) I might have to switch later but for now I'm sticking with Debian's ESR builds of FF.
I believe you missed that the discussion was about mobile browsers, though, unless you're just extremely eager to bring up PM in conversations ;)
(Score: 2) by dry on Tuesday December 06 2016, @11:53PM
I'm talking about the mobile version of Palemoon that I use on my cellphone and on my tablet.
I use SeaMonkey on the desktop.
(Score: 2) by Marand on Wednesday December 07 2016, @02:26AM
Oh cool, didn't know they started doing that. I'll keep that in mind if Mozilla completely shits up the mobile browser, though I currently have no reason to switch since I haven't had any issues with mobile Firefox since I replaced the 2011-era tablet. Kind of doubt it would matter though, since that tile bug was happening even as far back as 2012ish.
Thanks for the heads up. Now they just need to start officially supporting Linux so that maybe it can start getting into distro repos before the Firefox ESR releases go off the plot like the mainline versions are starting to.