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Don't get me wrong, I'm very thankful that these exist. I'd still be
using Netscape 4 on my Sun boxes if they weren't here, but... They're
pretty annoying plenty of the time.
Right now I'm pissed that keyboard shortcuts don't work from text boxes.
I'd understand if emacs or vi editing modes worked in them, thus stealing
our control characters, but they don't. So why the hell can't I hit ^W to
close a tab or a window while in a text box? And why doesn't ^Q quit the
app? Why?
But it's not like that's my only complaint. Of course, using linux is
often painful for me because I think it makes more sense to use the
Alt/Apple key as the main keyboard shortcut modifier, and this makes that
much more sense on Linux because this key is used for absolutely nothing
else, whereas Control is used freaking everywhere. I know this isn't
really the fault of Moz et al, but it sure bites me the most in that app.
And don't get me started on the stupid preference directories... Who ever
though that I need to have my preferences stored in some randomized
directory name? I understand that maybe someone someday would want
multiple profiles stored in the same home directory (although I would
think such a person would be smart enough to hack it themselves), although
I think it's _stupid_ that all of the preferences are set up to allow this
by default. But once we get past that, what's up with the extra gibberish
directory?
And why the hell isn't it trivial to do things like run/import Diffs of
bookmarks? Instead of bookmarks becoming more important, which is what
should happen, they've become less important because they're such a PITA
to manage across my many, many platforms. It's not like I can check them
into CVS, you know, because I get a different random directory on every
damn host. Yes, I do use soft links to get around that, but that's also a
PITA.
And lastly, why is it that Moz et al are the only damn applications in the
whole world that can't just run a binary? Why do I need a shell script
that launches a shell script to launch a shell script to launch the
binary? Huh? What's so special about you? And what's even stupider is
you can't soft link those shell scripts to another directory; you have to
specify the real, full path every time or the stupid things don't work.
Hello? What's your excuse?
Yuck! And this is one of the most important apps on the 'net these days?
Embarassing.
Luke
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