MCBastos wrote:
Interviewed by CNN on 19/03/2013 10:58, Philip TAYLOR told the world:
Sad. That means that unless that situation is reversed, Seamonkey
is doomed to remain of fringe interest, since the average browser
user would be most unwilling to have to delve into about:config,
yet such delving seems unavoidable if one is to get the most out
of the suite.
I fail to see the logic on that claim. Sure, there might be value in
exposing a few more of the hidden about:config prefs on the main UI. But
ALL of them? Having hundreds (thousands) of preferences so exposed would
make it incredibly hard to find the few prefs that are commonly used.
The "average browser user" is better served by exposing the controls for
the most common preferences and hiding the ones he is not expected to
understand; the "average browser user" does not care about things like
advanced webgl settings.
(When I say "not expected to understand" I do not intend to disparage
the average user's intelligence, only their interest in delving into
obscure technical aspects of browser architecture. Most users have other
areas of interest.)
This sort of gets to my opinion of those whom muck about in about:config
as "power users" and not average...and why I feel that functional and
interface fixes are of the highest priority in order to service the
"average" user - unless the goal is to have *all* users be/become "power
users"? Which as you point out isn't really very realistic.
And I'm still a bit surprised about Opera having a similar structure and
it's implementation of the user default rest for about:config - mainly
because I only glance at Opera on my laptop on occasion and don't really
use it. But it does have some very nice interface features for use on a
mobile computer like a laptop.
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- Rufus
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