Re: Reason 3.14159x10^8 to hate firefox

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From: Martin Ebourne
Subject: Re: Reason 3.14159x10^8 to hate firefox
Date: 21:44 on 19 Oct 2006
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 13:38 -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Martin Ebourne wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 11:47 -0700, Timothy Knox wrote:
> >> I know, and that is one possibility. But my real bitch is that while there is
> >> an option to "Always allow" a website to open a popup, there is NOT one to
> >> "Always deny." Some websites I don't ever wish to permit to open popups, because
> >> they are only advertisements. All I want is an ability to tell a given website
> >> to take its popups and pop them up where the sun doesn't shine. ;-)
> > 
> > Of course, that would require it to maintain a list of always blocked
> > addresses in addition to the list of always allowed, quite a bit of
> > extra code complexity. Or bugs.
> >
> > And then there's all the extra UI complexity of letting people edit this
> > list. Or complaints from people who can't work it.
> 
> The day one extra list is quite a bit of extra code complexity is the day I become a fucking farmer.

std::list<std::string> m_alwaysBlockSites;
[or pick your favourite language]

Damn it, you're right.

Hold on, how's the user going to maintain that list? Ah yes.

Cheers,

Martin.

PS. Agricultural, dairy, cattle? ;-)


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