Firefox Nightly: "you know that new and buggy feature you disabled?...
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The difference is, nobody spends 8 hours a day deleting certain items from WoW inventory. Sometimes for a living.
No, and I wasn't--in the case I mentioned--talking about something you'd do that frequently.
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What is it with apps treating their users like hapless morons? Windows did it with the bluescreen, and now Firefox pulls this shit.
See: Why I stopped using Chrome. Yes Chrome, I downloaded a file, now fucking let me open it.
Google's particularly bad, imo, for unilaterally deciding how I want to do things. But generally with the rise of people using the internet who aren't any good at computers, everything is designed to protect the user from themselves now. Often with no way out of that configuration.
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everything is designed to protect the user from themselves now
Eeeeeeeeeverything Is A Phooooooooooone! Join ussss... remove all affordances... hide all controls... make all actions random and accidental... the machinery must be MORE magical and enigmatic if weee are to keeeep our joooooooooooooooooobs... all screeeens must be smeeeeeeaaaared with piiiiiizza greeeeeease.... joooooiiiiiiiiiinnnnnn uuuuuuuuuussssssssssssssssssssss
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one headset on one computer kind of didn't work sometimes THEREFORE ALL USB AUDIO DEVICES ARE USELESS TRASH!
Yes, I came to that conclusion based on a sample size of one. That's also how I test my code, I give it a single input and if it works I declare it done.
Dragonfly
Damn it, now you reminded me of how awesome it was. I has a sad now.
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I give it a single input and if it works I declare it done.
My God that's genius it would save so much time
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What is it with apps treating their users like hapless morons? Windows did it with the bluescreen, and now Firefox pulls this shit.
Windows 8.x's failed-boot non-diagnostics are particularly infuriating.
It's certainly true, as helldesk jockeys have bemoaned since forever, that end users won't read error messages. However, the amount of information valuable to an end user is not increased by removing all meaning from the messages themselves or flat-out replacing them with three useless one-syllable words in a huge sans font.
When a civilian's computer misbehaves, they very rarely attempt to understand why; instead, they give up all hope straight away and call somebody like me. But given the rate at which failure-mode feedback is being dumbed down, pretty soon I'm not going to be able to do squat about shit either. And that makes me really, really pissed off.
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Ugh, I couldn't care less about the whole rounded versus square tabs.
What bothers me the most is that they messed up the color theme for the tabs on Linux: there's almost no color difference between the active tab and the background ones!
"But look, the active one has rounded corners whereas the background ones are square!"
Except that contrast got the job done before and works better!
Similarly for the menu button, at least for Windows users this time: if you enable "tabs on top", it had been using this nice mile high design where you could just slam your mouse into the top corner to get a menu. What do they replace it with? A hamburger menu which you can't move and sits near the "Close window" button on the right...
"But we wanted a consistent interface for phone and tablet!"
On a phone you don't even show the hamburger menu by default, only on "drag up" + it's actually a completely different Android build, so why in the name of all that is B****** do you have to push over the desktop UI?!?
Ok, </rant>
Thank god someone is keeping Classic Theme restorer alive.
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where you could just slam your mouse into the top corner to get a menu. What do they replace it with? A hamburger menu which you can't move and sits near the "Close window" button on the right...
I know I'm a minority here, but I've moved the Close button to the left side of the titlebar, away from the minimize and maximize buttons, so I get the opposite problem. Last night I closed a program when I was reaching for the File menu.On another note, Ctrl+Q is dangerously close to Ctrl+W. Sometimes I close a lot more tabs than I want.
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It's kind of like how WoW makes you type DELETE into a text box before deleting certain items.
Which can be pretty annoying at times. Like when you loot the 16th copy of a battle pet you cannot use, trade, or sell to a merchant.
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Another Firefox annoyance that gets me every time:
Type
console.pro
in the web console. You get an autocomplete prompt with three options.
Navigate the options using the arrow keys. Once you're satisfied with the option you want, press Enter. The text is completed in the prompt. Everything is fine.Now type
console.pro
in the web console. This time, don't navigate with the arrow keys. Just press Enter. The text is not completed. Instead, the incomplete command is accepted asconsole.pro
and you get backundefined
.Firefoxcistency!
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Now type
console.pro
in the web console. This time, don't navigate with the arrow keys. Just press Enter. The text is not completed. Instead, the incomplete command is accepted asconsole.pro
and you get backundefined
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How dare Firefox not select an item you didn't select‽ It should be psychic and know which of the three items you didn't select you want‼
@Zecc said:On another note, Ctrl+Q is dangerously close to Ctrl+W. Sometimes I close a lot more tabs than I want.
And that's why I have Firefox prompt me if I'm sure I want to close multiple tabs.
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How dare Firefox not select an item you didn't select‽
There is one selected by default.And that's why I have Firefox prompt me if I'm sure I want to close multiple tabs.
That works great for when I accidentally close a single window, not the whole application.
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Sorry, I still can't get over that audio mixer with a different scale per process, because of the length of the process name. Who thought that was a good idea?
Probably someone who's native German
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"Eh maaan, you know how to screw with the devs? Let's forbid pasting to the JS console! Hehe, and they can't just click a button to enable it... they have to, like, type in "allow pasting", by hand! And do it every time they open a console!
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I only have to do it the very first time I want to paste in a Web Console.
By "very first time" I mean "since installing that Firefox instance". I don't even have to retype after upgrading Firefox.
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Probably someone who's native German
I found a longer English word... but I can't post it because it's 189,819 letters long.
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Why wouldn't there be?
Chrome gets this right, as does IntelliJ. Hit enter and you accept its best guess of what you want. If you don't like it, press Escape. It makes typing much faster. Pressing Tab doesn't feel as natural.
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I found a longer English word... but I can't post it because it's 189,819 letters long.
Dicsource feature request: onebox for http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/
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I only have to do it the very first time I want to paste in a Web Console.
By "very first time" I mean "since installing that Firefox instance". I don't even have to retype after upgrading Firefox.
I could have sworn I've had to do this once for every time I launched Firefox (but not every time I opened the console).In fact, I'm reproducing this behaviour right now on some profiles I have. But on others the prompt isn't appearing at all. it looks like these are the profiles I use the most, so I'm wondering if they keep track of the number of times the warning has already been issued.
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so I'm wondering if they keep track of the number of times the warning has already been issued.
It's a Discofeature then: if you have used the feature at least 50 days in the last 100 days, FF considers you a
LeaderRegular user. You get trust level Developer and it doesn't require typing "fuck off, I know what I'm doing".
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"But we wanted a consistent interface for phone and tablet!"
Jooooooooiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnn uuuuuuuuuussssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
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Well I should caveat that: it's up to the maker of the voice communication program to actually ask Windows for the correct device.
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EDIT: and a lot of voice comm software just lets you select which device to use in their prefs anyway.I do this all the time on Linux, too. I can prioritize my output devices for Notifications, Music, Video, Communication, Games and Accessibility. For Audio Recording, I have Communication, Recording and Control options, and for Video Recording I have Communication and Recording.
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Which can be pretty annoying at times. Like when you loot the 16th copy of a battle pet you cannot use, trade, or sell to a merchant.
(emphasis mine)TRWTF is WoW -- what were they smoking by making pets non-tradeable? (Then again -- I object to the entire soulbinding system to begin with ;)
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Like when you loot the 16th copy of a battle pet you cannot use, trade, or sell to a merchant.
What kind of battle pets are affected by that? I haven't seen any--you can right-click on the portrait and choose Release, and all you get is "are you sure?"
I'm talking about the thing that happens with some soulbound items, or when you try to delete a character, but maybe I haven't run into the kind of pets you're talking about? My highest level one is L14 so far.
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There is one selected by default.
Except, apparently it's not selected selected.
Intellisense in VS sometimes, and Eclipse more commonly, sometimes does this to me.
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TRWTF is WoW -- what were they smoking by making pets non-tradeable?
Don't know, but at least you can cage some of 'em and put 'me on AH.
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What kind of battle pets are affected by that?
I typically run into this during holidays, such as the recent Hallow's End. I'm looking for a low-droprate mount, and frequently get high-droprate battle pets. I cannot add them to my collection, because I already have 3. So I could remove one of my current collected ones and collect the new one, or delete the new one. Neither is easy.
It's kind of a niche case though.
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On another note, Ctrl+Q is dangerously close to Ctrl+W. Sometimes I close a lot more tabs than I want.
On Dvorak, V and W are right next to each other...I have on many occasions tried to paste something into a text box and closed the tab instead.
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I hate this:
http://what.thedailywtf.com/uploads/default/10250/288898b7d58beb1d.pngFirst time I saw that I went "Where the fuck is the bookmarks and why the hell do I have a clipboard icon!?!"
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Don't know, but at least you can cage some of 'em and put 'me on AH.
Yes, but how much can I sell a FrostCat for on the auction house?
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What bothers me the most is that they messed up the color theme for the tabs on Linux: there's almost no color difference between the active tab and the background ones!
Don't remember whether Classic Theme Restorer takes care of this, but in case you're still looking for something that does...Tab Utilities.
It also supports tab stacking very similar to what Opera had [rant]until they got rid of everything that made it Opera in order to switch browser engines[/rant], and some other stuff like [s]sane[/s] different settings for what tab to focus when you close the one you're on.
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I cannot add them to my collection, because I already have 3. So I could remove one of my current collected ones and collect the new one, or delete the new one. Neither is easy.
Ah, I see. I try to manage my pets so that never happens. I haven't run into a need for having more than one of any given kind.
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Don't remember whether Classic Theme Restorer takes care of this, but in case you're still looking for something that does...Tab Utilities.
Classic Theme Restorer does have that covered. Tabs page > Pick "Curved tabs (alternate)" from the dropdown.
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Yes, but how much can I sell a FrostCat for on the auction house?
Depends on the server, I assume.
I found a Sky-Bo last week and am trying to decided if I want to keep it or not. They're going for--wll, they're listed for--upwards of 20K.
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I found a Sky-Bo last week and am trying to decided if I want to keep it or not. They're going for--wll, they're listed for--upwards of 20K.
Feh, that's chump change. My ammo costs more than that. If you want to talk about something that's actually worth auctioning...you better be ready to play with the big boys ;)
Filed under: never pick a fight with someone who buys their thermonuclear warheads by the production lot
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My ammo costs more than that.
I'd find what you said potentially believable if ranged weapons in WoW used ammo.
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I think we may be comparing apples and oranges here.
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I think we may be comparing apples and oranges here.
This is the first time I've seen either apples or oranges mentioned here...
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This is the first time I've seen either apples or oranges mentioned here
I was talking gold coins, so whatever his ammo is that costs twenty thousand Krugerrands, he isn't going to fire much of it, unless that's a bulk price ("I was talking about the entire US annual production of .22LR, which is why nobody can find any!")
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Doesn't narrow it down. 20k gold in WoW buys you some pretty nice toys. 20k gold in Diablo barely buys you breakfast.
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Doesn't narrow it down. 20k gold in WoW buys you some pretty nice toys.
I was talking about WoW. I dunno what he was talking about. does that help?
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I knew you were talking about wow since about the start (I think you were clear?). I don't have the foggiest what he's in.
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I knew you were talking about wow since about the start
Hmm. Now accepting flags for whoosh, then.
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I try to manage my pets
You hold a daily meeting with your pets where you give a presentation on correct litter box etiquette and tell them the latest from the departmental core brief?! You fiend!
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May also be a case of one addict recognizing another.
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You hold a daily meeting with your pets where you give a presentation on correct litter box etiquette
WoW pets don't use litter boxes, but I meant a different kind of management.
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Which reminds me of the old joke of there only being one outhouse, which was occupied. Not that it was ever true - there were always more outhouses than that one. But that was the only one anyone remembered (at least if you played alliance at the time).