Re: Firefox: Tools->Options? Or Edit->Preferences? Place your bets now!

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From: Yoz Grahame
Subject: Re: Firefox: Tools->Options? Or Edit->Preferences? Place your bets now!
Date: 18:11 on 20 Jul 2004
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:59:25 +0100, Earle Martin
<hates-software@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> Want to change your browser settings? I hope you've read the GNOME human
> interface guidelines, no, wait, I mean the KDE guidelines, no, Windows, no,
> MacOS X...
> 
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245765
> 
> Yes, I just upgraded to Firefox 0.91, and was surprised to find that
> Tools->Options no longer exists.
> 
> Heaven help those people who might want to write help text about changing
> browser settings and want to cater to Firefox users.

True, but this is thoroughly argued out here:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245862
... and I have to agree that there are good arguments either way but
that consistency with the OS's HIG spec is more important.

Think of it this way: It makes writing such help text a little more
difficult (and only a little, really) but also lowers the probability
that a user will need that help text at all.

-- Yoz

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