I was waffling between Firebird and NetCaptor as my primary browser… I rely on IE’s WYSIWYG editing support, which made NetCaptor a contender. Until I found the Googlebar extension for Firebird.
Firebird = easy Googling
NetCaptor = no such luck
That pretty much sealed it. I’d rather just launch plain ol’ IE to do the occasional edit job and rely on Firebird for general browsing. I’ve always enjoyed hating Mozilla, but I guess my fun is over.
]]>(You don’t have to stop hating Mozilla, beautiful though that line is: I hate the Bloated Application Suite with at least 20% of my hatred for IE, fluctuating based on how long it’s been since I last had to start IE.)
]]>maybe my understanding of the word ’bloat’ is different from everybody elses? yes gecko *is* bloated, the devs finally admitting that it contains a lot of unneeded code but thats not what people seem to think of when complaining of mozilla bloat.
my favourite Firebird extenstion? Ook. having your bookmarks a right click away is great. i use the context menu for all my navigation as well.
]]>Last night, I spent a few minutes updating JournURL’s editing Javascript to be Mozilla-friendly, and set about posting my first batch of Firebird-only blog entries. In the aftermath, a tiny corner of my heart hates Firebird. Or at least Firebird extensions. Or maybe just the Tabbrowser extension. Just a little bit. :D
”Hey, where did that error come from? I’ve been using this app for years without seeing it.”
”Hey, why are multiple, identical posts popping up?”
Being the sort that suspects himself as the point of failure in most scenarios, I promptly began to scour the code, looking for problems. I checked the database for corruption. I scratched my head a lot, and freaked out a little. By chance, I happened to try a test post in IE. It worked fine. I didn’t notice this at first, unfortunately. About an hour later, around 1:30am, it dawned on me. I fired up Mozilla… it didn’t have a problem, either. I began to get annoyed as a possiblity crept into my mind.
I opened Firebird and disabled the Tabbrowser extension. Subsequent posts went through without a hitch. I turned the Tabbrowser back on… instant error report.
Preliminary diagnosis: To protect the user from data-loss due to a server reset or lost session, JournURL defaults to targeting _blank when posting, leaving the original textarea intact. For some reason, the TBEx sees that and sends two identical, simultaneous POSTs when it is set to open new windows in a tab.
Now sure, I should be grateful that Firebird uncovered a security hole that I thought I’d filled long ago. But that’ll have to wait until I’m done being irritated. :D
]]>I’m willing to object to code bloat as well, though I’m not at all qualified to judge, other than having browsed around in the code some looking for why an unescaped </noscript> in a textarea would strip attributes from tags that follow it, finding a ton of comments about ”(is this still called?)”, ”quick hack for qwkl, should be pulled by M18” and the like.
I can see where Ook would be one of those absolutely wonderful to people who like it things, but I haven’t actually tried it yet: there’ve been times when I wanted to do everything in a context menu, but at the moment I’ve got such strong conditioning that navigation happens up there at the top of the screen that my head’s halfway raised before I finish thinking that I need to go somewhere else.
]]>I’d love to ”borrow” the useful parts of TBE out into two or three separate slimmed down extensions, but one of the parts I really use a lot is Undo close tab, and I doubt that it’ll be an easy thing to strip out. We’ll see.
]]>Oh well. The TBE probably did me a favor in the long run… my anti-flood code had a blindingly obvious problem, and with a few days distance, I’m thrilled that a harmless little browser extension uncovered it for me. Now that it’s fixed, I can turn the TBE back on, and the world is a nicer place. [grin]
]]>Once I discovered the wonder of UniCode, I realized that I need a new email client. For a few years I’ve been using Rimarts Becky! to send and read Japanese email. I was able to read and write Chinese in Becky! (not that I understand Chinese but I’ve d…
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