Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

[Jorge Almeida <jalmeida@math.ist.utl.pt>]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, b.n. wrote:

>
> Please don't get me wrong -no personal attack intended, really- but changing 
> browser too shouldn't be necessary. You continue to complain about this

No, I don't. Maybe you don't have the whole thread present to memory.
I mentioned the reason why I want to dump FF. Once. And I asked for the
list members to share their experiences/impressions/opinions about
_other_ browsers. I didn't ask for sympathy nor for help with my FF
troubles. If some people chose to give suggestions about it, I
appreciate it and reply to them, but my intentions about FF are not
bound to change. (They might if an _explanation_ arose, as opposite to
a workaround which may work today but maybe not tomorrow.)

>
> Do as you like it, but it seems to me quite an odd reaction. Next time you'll 
> meet a bug in Linux or Gentoo that would just require editing a text file, 
> you'll change OS?
No. There are not many OSs left. I like Linux, but I would prefer a more
let's-understand-it and less let's-push-buttons attitude from the
general community. Still, the world is what it is and it's not up to me
to judge...
And I don't mind at all editing config files, I find it much better than
clicking boxes in some half-baked "wizard". It's just that I appreciate
knowing what I'm doing, I'm not a fan of the "JustWorks(TM)".
> :) 
>
> The really appropriate reaction, in the meantime, is filing a bug (because in 
> this you're perfectly right -it's a bug, or at least an annoyance) at the 
> firefox bugzilla, I guess. You're right to complain, that's for sure.
Since my experience seems to be unique, it's hard to give data about how
to reproduce the problem.
>
>
>> and both Opera and Konqueror seem nice
>>  enough. 
>
> They are good software indeed, just like FF. But what will you do when you'll 
> met the next bug with them?
>
I will do what I usually do when I find bugs in other software: search the
gentoo forums, search Google (in English, I hope), ask for help in
mailing lists,...
I won't read the source because that's beyond my skills. As a user who
is not a CS professional, I have to rely on whatever documentation is
accessible to me. Sometimes I have to dump the software (for example, I
had to switch from bincimap to dovecot, even if bincimap seemed more to
my liking).
In the case of FF, I got tired and chose a different approach, that's all.
>
Regards,

Jorge Almeida
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