I've finally given in and run up Firefox on the Mac.

Why?

Because I can no longer access either my online banking or my motor tax renewal forms with Safari. Who'd have thought I'd be driven to open-source technology by a bank and local government?

I remember when firefox was the fast, sleek version of Mozilla.

Of course, I also remember when Mozilla was the fast, sleek version of Communicator. And yadda yadda yadda.

Here in my Firefox window I have some highlighted text. In my head this is, perhaps, the X Primary selection. For a transient period in time it is also X Cut Buffer 0. From Firefox's context menu I've selected Copy, so it should now also be in the X Clipboard selection. However, in the Emacs buffer I wanted to paste to, it is not in any of these ( Read more... )

or maybe not. It's not the first time I've encountered a persistently annoying bug that isn't being fixed or usefully flagged to the user because for the former case noone is addressing the underlying bug, and for the latter case noone wants to put in a stopgap such as, you know, telling the user what's going on.

It's too damned big.

I have a larger problem with the Mozilla family: they all identify their windows as whatever the top-level window is. In other words, for me, the Firefox main window identifies as Firefox-bin, as does the Calendar window. In Mozilla it used be that the browser identified as navigator:browser and the mail client as mail:3pane; ( Read more... )

The "Menu" key works in Mozilla-on-Linux. I don't think this changes anything about my browsing behaviour, but I certainly wasn't aware of it before.

while I'm whining about cookies... it'd be nice if I could tell mozilla to never, ever accept a cookie of the form "*WEBTRENDS*" or something.

If you were to judge by what I'm posting here, I've really been cranky the last few days... right now, and in fact for the last half-hour, Mozilla has been catatonic from a UI perspective. Because I pressed the "Remove All Cookie Sites" button on the utterly useless cookie manager. Now, because I'm an inquisitive soul, I ran strace against it to ( Read more... )

Yay. There's a new version of Flash. Boo, it hangs when I take Mozilla to http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/ and click on "previous date". So much for progress. Even the old version didn't do this once I'd allowed it (or Mozilla, I don't know which) to invoke esd ( Read more... )

Well, for what it's worth, it appears to be a Macromedia bug somehow. That said, I feel that Mozilla could be doing more to isolate plugin bugs and stop them from hanging up the entire browser (it's threaded; what's the excuse?)( cuidados! hay stacktrace! )