On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, b.n. wrote:
Please don't get me wrong -no personal attack intended, really- but changing
browser too shouldn't be necessary. You continue to complain about this
No, I don't. Maybe you don't have the whole thread present to memory.
I mentioned the reason why I want to dump FF. Once. And I asked for the
list members to share their experiences/impressions/opinions about
_other_ browsers. I didn't ask for sympathy nor for help with my FF
troubles. If some people chose to give suggestions about it, I
appreciate it and reply to them, but my intentions about FF are not
bound to change. (They might if an _explanation_ arose, as opposite to
a workaround which may work today but maybe not tomorrow.)
Do as you like it, but it seems to me quite an odd reaction. Next time you'll
meet a bug in Linux or Gentoo that would just require editing a text file,
you'll change OS?
No. There are not many OSs left. I like Linux, but I would prefer a more
let's-understand-it and less let's-push-buttons attitude from the
general community. Still, the world is what it is and it's not up to me
to judge...
And I don't mind at all editing config files, I find it much better than
clicking boxes in some half-baked "wizard". It's just that I appreciate
knowing what I'm doing, I'm not a fan of the "JustWorks(TM)".
:)
The really appropriate reaction, in the meantime, is filing a bug (because in
this you're perfectly right -it's a bug, or at least an annoyance) at the
firefox bugzilla, I guess. You're right to complain, that's for sure.
Since my experience seems to be unique, it's hard to give data about how
to reproduce the problem.
and both Opera and Konqueror seem nice
enough.
They are good software indeed, just like FF. But what will you do when you'll
met the next bug with them?
I will do what I usually do when I find bugs in other software: search the
gentoo forums, search Google (in English, I hope), ask for help in
mailing lists,...
I won't read the source because that's beyond my skills. As a user who
is not a CS professional, I have to rely on whatever documentation is
accessible to me. Sometimes I have to dump the software (for example, I
had to switch from bincimap to dovecot, even if bincimap seemed more to
my liking).
In the case of FF, I got tired and chose a different approach, that's all.
Regards,
Jorge Almeida
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