Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:13:36
Message-Id: 200611301708.15256.bo.andresen@zlin.dk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice by "b.n."
1 On Thursday 30 November 2006 17:37, b.n. wrote:
2 [SNIP]
3 > Why don't you try?
4
5 Maybe he just needed an excuse to finally check out the alternatives. After
6 all the performance of firefox is pretty horrific...
7
8 [SNIP]
9 > The really appropriate reaction, in the meantime, is filing a bug
10 > (because in this you're perfectly right -it's a bug, or at least an
11 > annoyance) at the firefox bugzilla, I guess. You're right to complain,
12 > that's for sure.
13
14 That's assuming it hasn't been filed already. And that it isn't just some
15 misconfiguration somewhere. I guess the latter could be tested by temporarily
16 moving .mozilla and creating a new profile just to see it that changes it's
17 behaviour.
18
19 > > Please don't bother about this. Changing browser is not a
20 > > life-shattering experience,
21 >
22 > Sure, but editing a tiny text file seems even less life-shattering, IMHO.
23
24 It would require adding a line like e.g:
25
26 <input name="hl" value="en">
27
28 > >and both Opera and Konqueror seem nice
29 > > enough.
30 >
31 > They are good software indeed, just like FF. But what will you do when
32 > you'll met the next bug with them?
33
34 Then at least he knows what the alternatives are..
35
36 --
37 Bo Andresen

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