Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have been playing with FF3 and I'd have to say that minus the speedup
> overall the browser took a step backwards.  What particularly ticked me
> off was:
> * outlook like popup in the right-hand corner to notify that a
>   download completed (now there is some information one *has* to see)

I have no idea what you are talking about.

> * When one enter about:config a warning shows up that says: "if you
>   click here you can void your warranty.  What warranty???  When I

Well, that's the same level of silliness as the initial warnings about
viewing (un)encrypted pages, submitting forms, etc.

>   launched the browser the first time I already had to accept a license
>   that explicitly says "no warranty"; wtf?

That on the other hand, I do find strange.  Has anybody actually
read this "EULA" text?  I thought Mozilla was GPL...

> * While trying to make FF3 a better browser for OpenBSD we might as well

Actually, I much prefer that cross-platform applications retain
their defaults across different platforms.  I'm already annoyed
that I have to unconfigure Theo's xterm preferences on OpenBSD so
I get the default behavior back.

>   set plugin.default_plugin_disabled = false to remove the annoying
>   message that scrolls down your screen at snails pace asking if you
>   want to install a friggin non-existing plug-in.

I am strongly opposed to this.  I perfectly agree that the message
at the top is annoying, but setting plugin.default_plugin_disabled=false
also removes the puzzle piece (FF3: lego piece) placeholder from
the page, where it shows that content is missing due to lack of a
plugin.  Having parts of a page just disappear is very confusing.

Page text: As you can see below, bla, bla.
Me:        Huh? There's nothing there... Hey, author, you forgot something!
Author:    Are you on drugs?  It's right there.  Idiot.

> * I'd also like to get the old icons back.

Oh, c'mon.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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