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Grr.
So apparently for some people, sometimes, Firefox has a retarded-ass bug
where it insists on doing a reverse lookup on IP addresses it gets, and
until it gets a response to that lookup, it just sits there, and sits
there, and sits there. Which means that my new dual athlon is bloody fast
at everything except browsing, where it suddenly feels like a p100 running
Netscape 4.7 or something scary like that.
I don't even know who to hate on that one -- stupid Mozilla people (who
definitely have a fondness for writing hateful software, from what I can
tell), stupid people who packaged it, stupid users who apparently don't
notice the seconds being leeched off of their lives, stupid me for having
the specific configuration that results in this otherwise rare bug (I
don't actually know if it's rare or common, but it's documented online).
Either way, lots of hate.
So, I tried konquerer. I didn't actually know that Firefox had
anti-aliasing until I looked at konquerer -- do you have any idea how
absolutely hideous HTML looks on a 1280x1024 LCD when it's not
anti-aliased? I didn't know either, but now I do. Ugh. Oh, but they're
going to have it RSN! Yay!!!!!! Uh, yeah.
So, I tried Opera. I might give this one a bit more of a try, but... I
admire what they're trying to do here (make some money by providing a good
browser) but none of my instincts work (no ^L for going to the address
bar, for instance), they think the F keys are for them whereas I consider
them to be for my personal shortcuts, not applications, and they don't
appear to have a status bar. Safari defaults to not having one, but at
least you can make it appear (they really should default to having it),
and although this isn't very hateful, Safari gives you extra information
in it like whether a link is to a new window or in the same window. WTF
don't all status bars do this?
Sure, I can mouse over a link and then eventually a tooltip pops up.
Because that's exactly what I want -- a three second delay for
information. I'm all about waiting for my computer; that's why I
upgraded to a faster machine.
And don't get me started on how busy the whole interface is. I don't like
lots of crap distracting my eyes; one of the things I don't like about KDE
is that the colors are so jarring that my eyes keep getting stuck on the
wrong buttons. If colors were used for useful direction (bright means
important or something), fine, but they're not, they're just there for
fun or whatever. "Wow, it's bright and colorful; I didn't know linux could
do that!"
With opera, I can't really even tell where the page ends and the browser
crap starts. How many frame do I have here? The page, the nav bar on the
right, the toolbars on the top, the toolbars above those, the ad bar, and
a bunch of other stuff. I count five bars of crap above my web page in
Opera -- can people actually use that for anything useful? Come on.
Oh, and I just found that Opera has decided (like IE) that standard mouse
operations in text boxes don't apply in browser text boxes. Double click
means select a _word_ not all of the text. Why go changing UI that's been
standard for 20 years? It will just make me hate you. Hate hate hate.
--
SCSI is *not* magic. There are fundamental technical reasons
why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain
now and then.
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