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"A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis@xxx.xx> writes: [...] > * Daniel Pittman <daniel@xxxxxxxx.xxx> [2006-06-21 06:55]: >> Curse because it rendered the google startup page half way >> through, causing half my URL to end up in the google search >> field and the other half to be overwritten with the URL of the >> google page. > > You hate on the browser factory setting despite the fact that it takes > about 10 seconds to change it? It's been "about:blank" in all my > browsers since the days of Windows 95 lore. No. I hate the fact that Firefox will come up, allow me to edit a field, then change the input focus and replace what I wrote. If Firefox allows me to start entering text into a field I expect it to continue that. Having my input focus whipped around to another field is bad enough; removing what I had already entered into my original field is just annoying. I may be able to work around this by selecting a homepage that is faster to load than the default, network homed, page -- but that doesn't fix the problem. The focus issue is still there. The evil, hateful focus issue that changes what I am doing *without* notice to me, because some unrelated process has completed. This is the same hate that the multitude of Windows applications generate when they pop up a nice modal dialog right in the middle of the screen to tell me something exciting: I was working there, dammit, and you interrupted me. The thing that makes the Firefox version of this really, truly hateful is that it is all inside Firefox. Nothing outside it, nothing fancy added on to the package, just what ships in the box. I don't, frankly, care what the default page it opens is, or where it comes from. That doesn't actually fit into the picture, even. Heck, if you really want hate, here you go: - go to your running Firefox - enter a URL for a new website that will take a little while to load (I used www.microsoft.com, but anything not in the cache should do.) - hit enter to start it loading - type something else into the URL field - wait for Firefox to replace what you typed with the original URL Thanks, Firefox, that was nice. I really appreciate your replacing my data input with something else, and moving the input focus. It makes my life complete. See: all hate, no stupid homepage changes needed. Happy now? Daniel -- Digital Infrastructure Solutions -- making IT simple, stable and secure Phone: 0401 155 707 email: contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx http://digital-infrastructure.com.au/There's stuff above here
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