On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:38:11 -0500, Ed Mullen wrote: > Robert Kaiser wrote: >> Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP] schrieb: >>> On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:57:28 -0800, Sailfish >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> My bloviated meandering follows what Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP] graced us >>>> with on 11/30/2011 11:36 AM: >>>>> Sailfish, you still hanging around? You helped me do this a while back >>>>> in Firefox. Well, I tried using the same userChrome.css file I use for >>>>> my Firefox 8 install but it doesn't hide the Bookmarks button on the >>>>> toolbar for Seamonkey 2.5. Here's how userChrome looks currently: >>>>> >>>> [snip /] >>>>> >>>>> I thought since Seamonkey 2.5 and Firefox 8 were "the same" that it >>>>> would work but apparently now. Any clue on how to accomplish the same >>>>> with Seamonkey 2.5? >>>>> >>>> Adding #bookmarks-button to it ought to work. >>>> >>>> Good luck. >>> >>> Incidentally, is there also a similar one for the Most Visited button? >> >> Why does nobody try to just remove those entries by deleting them (Most >> Visited) or using toolbar customization to move them away (bookmarks >> button)? I guess you guys just want geeky solutions instead of easy ones... >> >> Robert Kaiser >> >> > > One of the things that attracted me to Mozilla software in the first > place was "geeky" control over it that no other program really afforded. > So, yeah, and that surely was Mozilla's user base until it decided to > dumb it down with the Firefox/Thunderbird strategy. > > So, you can deride us users who like that fine control but you aren't > going to endear yourself to us by doing that. Nor are the devs going to > appeal to readers of this newsgroup if they hew more toward the Firefox > mentality and away from the SeaMonkey spirit of letting users control > their computers and software.
I think Robert is deriding people who when faced with two or more methods of solving a problem always choose the most difficult or most involved/intricate one instead of opting for the easiest way. Phil -- Philip Chee <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
