On 20/03/15 23:00, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Basil Chupin
[03-20-15 00:49]: On 03/19/2015 01:47 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
All,
Updates to 13.1 brought in FF36 which has the annoying habit of popping up a dialog for search engine selection every time I type something in the search dialog -- grr. I've already set preferences -> search to my default StartPage search and I DO NOT want to have that annoying dialog pop-up every time I type. It often covers up the very text I am reading/copying into my query.
Has anyone found an about:config switch, or userChrome.css/userContent.css way to kill it?
p.s. - Will someone please take UI development away from the children who liked playing with Crayons and fingerpaints... What's next? Dancing icons on mouseover toolbar?
Hah - found it:
about:config, then set
"browser.search.showOneOffButtons" false Bless you, David! :-) This has solved my source of frustration with
On 20/03/15 07:00, David C. Rankin wrote: this inane option. I don't understand. I have FF 36 and "browser.search.showOneOffButtons" true
I get no "popups" querying search engine, no crashes or none lately that I recall and if I close all instances of FF at the same time (kill the processes), I get a request to reopen the same pages that were closed.
Yeah, but at the same time nobody is having hassles with Network Manager but you cannot harness it! :-D
I have already suggested that (admittedly, some) developers should be given the Rorschach - or even the Holtzman Inkblot - Test before being let loose on software development.
(I like your comment about "Will someone please take UI development away from the children who liked playing with Crayons and fingerpaints.." Much better expressed than my psychological tests.) Knew you would.
True to form - I just knew that you would post something like this.
Amazing treatment/opinion of those volunteering their knowledge and labors. If you can do better..... Do it instead of criticizing those that do. The world will be a better place. If not, put a sock in it.
You know, I have come across this stupid argument a number of times in the past. Some years ago I was "blessed" with having to be associated with someone who held just this wacky idea - which he _fervently_ believed to be true. He, too, was a programmer/developer (strange that, isn't it?). And he "infected" other people around him with this laughable attitude. If it isn't already obvious to you, there is nobody who is a "master of all things" and who, therefore, does not have the aptitude to do certain things. I can take an engine apart and put it together and I can build you a piece of furniture, for example, but a friend of mine has to call in a handyman to change a light bulb - and I mean this literally. He doesn't know how to use a screwdriver. I also worked with a man who couldn't change the (annual) 'refill' of the desk-calendar at the end of the year - I had to do it for him. Bottom line here is, just in case you and others are missing the point, is that I, and many others, cannot program if my life depended on it. However, I/we can still make comments about the software we are using. There is one other aspect to all of this - and which is one which I made known when I had that "blessed" association with one whose motto was, "I am volunteer and don't have the time so if you want to have something done then do it yourself, or volunteer if you can it better" - very similar to what you stated above. My response to this was: 1) If something is worth doing then it is worth doing well; and 2) Nobody asked you to volunteer. If doing something which the "client" is asking about is too much for you to pay attention to then go away and let someone else do it and stop crying that "I am volunteer" because, as I said, nobody forced you to volunteer.
Attitude points diminishing rapidly
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