{"id":739,"date":"2003-01-16T18:47:38","date_gmt":"2003-01-17T02:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=739"},"modified":"2023-02-05T23:13:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T07:13:34","slug":"mozilla-still-not-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=739","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla still not perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to mozilla.org to gripe about the multiple petty ways in which Mozilla 1.2.1, the &#8220;latest and greatest&#8221; stable release, is less convenient to my fingers than the much-maligned Netscape Communicator 4.79; but was put off by the helpful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/quality\/bug-writing-guidelines.html\"> Bug Writing Guidelines<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. be sure that you&#8217;ve reproduced your bug using a build released within the past three days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite motivated enough (or awake enough) to install and test an alpha version.  Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>What am I griping about?  Glad you asked &#8211; gotta fill up my blogging quota somehow. <!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> In the Bookmarks editor, the &#8216;Last Visited&#8217; column is blank; the &#8216;Added&#8217; column shows the last visit, but I cannot sort on that column.  A major nuisance: this <del>is<\/del> <i>was<\/i> how I <del>keep<\/del> kept track of the many sites that I like to visit periodically.<\/li>\n<li> Cursor keys and Page keys sometimes do not scroll the window unless I have clicked in the content pane.  I expect that of a page with frames &#8211; but in mail?<\/li>\n<li> When I reply to mail that has a standard .signature (beginning with \u201c\u2212\u2212&nbsp;\u201d), the dash and everything below it is cut off.  One can see why this was thought desirable, but it ought to be optional, because:\n<ul>\n<li> I have one correspondent who uses &lt;&lt; AOL-style quoting &gt;&gt; (material for another day&#8217;s rant) and never trims anything.  The stuff to which I&#8217;d want to respond is below my sig, and thus cut off.  (This wouldn&#8217;t happen if he used more standard quoting, because a sigdash with a prefix is no longer a sigdash.)<\/li>\n<li> I&#8217;m on one digested list; guess what happens to the posts low in a digest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li> In text-input boxes (including mail), control-left always moves to the beginning of a word, but control-right from the end of a word just steps over the whitespace.  So it takes twice as many strokes to move right as to move left across the same text.  Why??<\/li>\n<li> Where&#8217;s <i>rot13<\/i>?<\/li>\n<li> Netscape Communicator shows the length of a mail item down to the byte; this is sometimes useful.  Mozilla rounds to the kilobyte, saving one character.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Strange window behaviors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> I don&#8217;t know whether this is Mozilla&#8217;s fault or Blogger&#8217;s (though it didn&#8217;t happen in 4.79):  When I go to &#8216;Publish&#8217; this mess, the &#8216;login&#8217; popup appears and then hides itself behind the main window!<\/li>\n<li> I often have several browser windows open at once.  When one of them reports a failure, the offending window comes to the front (just behind the error dialog).  In NS4.79, it <i>stays<\/i> in front so I can close it.  In Moz1.21, that window goes to the back when I dismiss the error dialog; so I can either\n<ul>\n<li> guess which window it was, find it and close it, or<\/li>\n<li> wait until any windows in front of it have been closed, and <i>then<\/i> try to remember why it&#8217;s blank.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li> I finish what I was doing in one window and push it to the back.  The first window then pops forward again to let me know that it has, as I expected, refreshed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;ll do for now.  At least Control-Plus now works, so I can defeat the artistic vision of people who went to the trouble of making their text too small for me to read comfortably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to mozilla.org to gripe about the multiple petty ways in which Mozilla 1.2.1, the &#8220;latest and greatest&#8221; stable release, is less convenient to my fingers than the much-maligned Netscape Communicator 4.79; but was put off by the helpful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=739\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neep-neep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4472,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/4472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}