Firefox silliness.

As folks are well aware, I’m a big fan of Firefox – to the point of being of the belief that there’s no reason not to run it, and zillions of reasons to run it.
At any rate, I was noodling around with the privacy settings, looking to clean out my cookies cache, when I noted the… interesting comment in the dialog for the definition of ‘Cookies’.
Those guys crack me up 🙂

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3 thoughts on “Firefox silliness.

  1. Things firefox does not do well (at least under OSX):
    Tabbing around forms SUCKS ROCKS.
    It skips pulldowns. It skips text boxes. Yes, I’d expect that you’d have to click off of a text box, but really, pulldowns are a no brainer.
    Its external application handling code is spotty at best.
    I want far more/better (more configurable?) key mappings. Opera/Linux is far and away my favorite in this field. (Z/X for back/forward. A/Z for previous/next link. No chords for those is a good thing.
    Find-as-you-type ignores buttons.
    Shit… I know there are 3-4 things that make be go blah all the time, but I’m too tired to remember them right now.
    Mind you, I’m USING firefox right this second. I like it. I like Opera/Linux better. Honestly, I’d prefer a bit more monolithicness in the code, as I’d like more certainty that things that are currently extensions will work with the next release without having to go and upgrade everything when the author gets around to the next release, IF they do. (For example, the “Add Bookmark Here” extension conflicts with the built-in “Open in tabs” function, as of a week or 2 ago, at least.)
    Quibble: Noone’s written any mouse-gestures I like. I want someone to clone Opera’s.

  2. Tabbing around forms SUCKS ROCKS.
    It skips pulldowns. It skips text boxes. Yes, I’d expect that you’d have to click off of a text box, but really, pulldowns are a no brainer.

    I just tried this on Firefox 0.9.1 under Linux. Works like a champ. What behaviour are you seeing?
    Its external application handling code is spotty at best.
    Like with what? I have a bunch of hooks in right now for doing thingsl like launching Xine on MOV files and the like.
    I want far more/better (more configurable?) key mappings. Opera/Linux is far and away my favorite in this field. (Z/X for back/forward. A/Z for previous/next link. No chords for those is a good thing.
    Huh. I detest flat keys for navigation, and with find as you type, that sort of nixes that idea. Keyboard bindings as they stand now are pretty good. I don’t think I’ve had to remap anything for my own personal settings (I’m actually rabidly against reconfiguring an app to match my preferences beyond the basics… I feel it limits my learning. If I try to make all applications match what I think they should look like, then I run the risk of considering anything that doens’t match my preferences must suck…)
    Find-as-you-type ignores buttons.
    I’ve actually never really gotten into find as you type. I just go ^F[typetype]enter.
    All in all, I found Opera’s UI to be abysmal last time I worked with it. It was childish, primitive and was unlike every other UI I’ve ever seen. Learning it was disruptive rather than supportive. I’ve been watching Firefox (nee Firebird nee whatever hte hell it was) grow for the last 2 years, it just gets better and better, and faster and faster.

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