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