Re: serious Mozilla design bug
On Saturday 21 February 2009 09:15, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Wesley Parish wes.par...@paradise.net.nz wrote: snip I call that artificial stupidity. or perhaps operator error? seriously if you are right clicking and trying to choose open in new tab then sometimes I find on a slower computer that somehow all the clicking chooses something random from the popup menu before I really meant to. In that case, it should be spelled out that certain operations are undefined for computers below a certain capacity. Heck, OpenOffice.org spells out that more current versions aren't suitable for Win95 PCs, and I've found that out the hard way on my father's Win95 PC before it went belly-up and died. I'm finding that I'm using Dillo quite seriously now, after having had Firefox do things to my browsing that I hadn't asked for. And since it doesn't include all the bells-and-whistles that modern websites take for granted, I'm thinking of porting S60 or something of the sort, rather than putting up with this sort of nonsense any more. Does anyone know how to turn it off, and bury it so deep it can't come back and haunt me? (I am really angry about this - this is a classic design error that I would've expected from Microsoft, not Mozilla - assuming that if something is done once, it will always be done that way, and enforcing it minutely.) The offending Mozilla Firefox is 3.0.6. Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: serious Mozilla design bug
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Wesley Parish wes.par...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Does anybody else have to put up with Mozilla Firefox deciding that instead of opening a web page in a new tab, you actually, secretly, unbeknown-to-oneself, want to save it? no Or when you're trying to read webmail in a new tab, it decides to open it up in a new window? no I call that artificial stupidity. or perhaps operator error? seriously if you are right clicking and trying to choose open in new tab then sometimes I find on a slower computer that somehow all the clicking chooses something random from the popup menu before I really meant to. Does anyone know how to turn it off, and bury it so deep it can't come back and haunt me? (I am really angry about this - this is a classic design error that I would've expected from Microsoft, not Mozilla - assuming that if something is done once, it will always be done that way, and enforcing it minutely.) The offending Mozilla Firefox is 3.0.6. Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
Re: serious Mozilla design bug
On Fri 20 Feb 2009 20:18:49 NZDT +1300, Wesley Parish wrote: There are several serious design errors in firefox, that's why I use konqueror. Unless I'm on doze. There was something seriously smarta...e in ff 3.x, about URL or search term completion. There is also a secret mantra, to be spoken in the holy part off ff aka advanced config tab, to rid yourself of such annouayance. (What annoys me about that part is that not all config settings are visible. Many you have to pull out of the universe to add to the list, before you can change their value.) What you describe should either be up on bugs.mozilla.org, or your setup is stuffed. Quit ff, delete ~/.mozilla and start again. Knowing you, I assume the problem is not BKAC. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
serious Mozilla design bug
Does anybody else have to put up with Mozilla Firefox deciding that instead of opening a web page in a new tab, you actually, secretly, unbeknown-to-oneself, want to save it? Or when you're trying to read webmail in a new tab, it decides to open it up in a new window? I call that artificial stupidity. Does anyone know how to turn it off, and bury it so deep it can't come back and haunt me? (I am really angry about this - this is a classic design error that I would've expected from Microsoft, not Mozilla - assuming that if something is done once, it will always be done that way, and enforcing it minutely.) The offending Mozilla Firefox is 3.0.6. Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
