Unless I'm mistaken, not one default Windows app has made the short list in any of our Hive Fives.

@dchall8:

I see we have gone back to chronological order for the top level comments, which I think is good. To be honest I'm not sure the entire concept of "threaded" works here though. One of the things I really like about Lifehacker is the community. Following the comments when a story is posted, watching the ebb and flow of…

I see we have gone back to chronological order for the top level comments, which I think is good. To be honest I'm not sure the entire concept of "threaded" works here though. One of the things I really like about Lifehacker is the community. Following the comments when a story is posted, watching the ebb and flow…

@Rajio:

@jsmorley:

"and just testing the indent. funny though, you can't select text to include in the reply AND click "reply to comment." it opens a new comment box at the bottom, so i'm assuming it won't really reply to the comment you're trying to reply to.. just so you know you got some bugs to work out.. "

It really does help. I hadn't used the addon before, but the indenting really does help things flow a bit better.

You might want to think about implementing a "cookie" to store the choice of threaded or "Classic" view so people who don't like the new system can set it and forget it instead of having to choose it over and over and over again. I foresee a fair number of folks not caring for the non-linear nature of this, and…

@jsmorley:

Guess I just need to get used to it. It feels very confusing. I understand the chronological order (or lack thereof) based on thread replies coming before post replies, It just doesn't seem to flow right anymore. I could scroll down through the replies before and easily follow the "story" being told by the replies. …

@Gina Trapani:

I agree with the observation that there may come a time when the shell / windows manager / GUI could be based around a browser like Chrome. It presumes that everyone has high speed internet access at all times and places, that speeds and web-based functionality are increased to accommodate applications like photoshop…

You could put one of those big cartoon hammers on an alarm clock and point it at your on/off switch on your computer.

If they support extensions in a way that allows third party developers to go nuts and let the market decide what is good or not (as opposed to some kind of apple-ish control) then in a year or so when the most popular addons have been ported over to Chrome it might be worth a second look. As of now, it's just not…

So I gather the "social" side of this is the written form of the languages through text chat? I would be more interested in the spoken form for learning the pronunciation and especially the venacular / slang used in real life. That would be more useful.

VOTE: µTorrent

I voted for the smart url bar. Once you get used to setting tags for sites and wrap your head around how the "awesome bar" in FF works, it is the biggest time saver introduced in browsers since tabs.

Not sure why I would want to drop a tab into a new window, although there must be some good reason I am missing. The reason I went to Firefox in the first place was to have tabs, so I could get AWAY from multiple windows / browser instances.

@Ajh: