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Nov. 22nd, 2003 06:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roneNever mind that you're too lame to switch to Firebird... there's some sort of vulnerability that allows malicious servers to steal your cookies. So fix it. Or switch. Or kill me.
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Date: 2003-11-22 06:21 pm (UTC)I'd switch to Firebird, except that it, uh, sucks. [Insert lengthy rant about Mozilla here. You probably saw most of it during the inevitable flamewar when Apple picked KHTML rather than mozilla project code for Safari in the first place.] (It's still better than IE. Or full-scale Mozilla.)
Thanks for the patch. 8)
"...or kill me?" Are we having a Sub-Genius moment?
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Date: 2003-11-22 07:26 pm (UTC)The weird thing about Mac browser development is that all the good stuff is in some way the product of one guy, Dave Hyatt. Pinkerton is the inheritor of Camino from Hyatt after he got hired by Apple to work on Safari, and before he worked on Camino Hyatt wrote XUL, and somewhere in there he was instrumental in the beginning of what is now Firebird.
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Date: 2003-11-23 12:37 am (UTC)I don't like Safari much, especially since its CSS, Unicode, and XML support are still behind what the Mozilla/Firebird/Camino people have to offer. But I will tolerate it over IE any day, of course. In fact, I have deleted IE on some of my machines. Cuz, ew.
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Date: 2003-11-23 08:43 am (UTC)Camino developed a cosmetic problem from the pointless change to the system tab widget that happened in Panther, but it still works fine.
Firebird keeps losing its scroll bars on me, especially when I mess with themes.
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Date: 2003-11-23 11:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-23 08:58 am (UTC)It used to be that the OS X system support was only used by OmniWeb, and Apple was way ahead of the Mozilla team at the time, so that while OmniWeb barfed on every other Web standard in the universe, it was the unchallenged Unicode king. But Mozilla caught up.
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Date: 2003-11-23 09:24 am (UTC)Last I checked Bugzilla, nobody else had bitched about this. I forgot my Bugzilla account password ages ago; maybe I ought to look into it...
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Date: 2003-11-22 08:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-22 08:13 pm (UTC)A lot of things that claim to be "cross-platform" really aren't.
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Date: 2003-11-22 08:18 pm (UTC)Also, 'LOL GET A REAL COMPUTER MR RAINBOW SUSPENDERS LOL'. Now where's rone with those pat mccurdy tapes?
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Date: 2003-11-23 03:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-23 01:30 am (UTC)Also, Opera 6 sucked balls and they lost me at that point.
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Date: 2003-11-23 03:31 pm (UTC)-If I want a new tab, I want a keyboard shortcut so I don't have to navigate through 18 drop-down right-click menus. if there's a keyboard shortcut for 'new tab' in Flaming Ostrich or whatever, it's news to me; god forbid it be something intuitive like ctrl+n. It's probably alt+shift+7 or something super genius like that.
-Open in background tab: as 'new tab' above. Last time I tried to use mozilla, getting things to open in a background tab was like pulling teeth. From a hen.
To sum up, your preferred software sucks.
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Date: 2003-11-23 03:36 pm (UTC)New tab? Ctrl-T. T for tab, in case you need help figuring that out.
Open in background tab? Ctrl-Shift-Leftclick.
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Date: 2003-11-24 08:25 am (UTC)There's my 2 cents in this $250 conversation.
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Date: 2003-11-23 04:13 pm (UTC)I never got used to Opera's persistent browsing sessions, but I can see why people would want them. Sam likes that a lot.
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Date: 2003-11-23 06:42 pm (UTC)As for "open in background tab," as soon as they implemented the "open in background tab" feature a year or so ago, I switched it to default to background opening and never looked back. So I don't have any idea when they made it possible to force that behavior with foreground opening as the default. (I'm happy to report that, should I ever need the behavior, ctrl-shift-leftclick actually does "open in a new tab in the way that is not my default," rather than forcing a background open.
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Date: 2003-11-23 11:33 am (UTC)And I don't need a nickel. I need a fucking salary.