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  Silly software changes Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-11-24 14:56 +1300
    Re: Silly software changes Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-24 00:56 -0500
      Re: Silly software changes Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-11-25 19:33 +1300
    Re: Silly software changes Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-12-06 19:05 +1300
      Re: Silly software changes super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2013-12-12 20:03 -0600
        Re: Silly software changes Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-12-13 18:09 +1300
          Re: Silly software changes Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-12-13 11:25 -0500
            Re: Silly software changes Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-12-14 09:45 +1300

#52574 — Silly software changes

Just to prove it's not only Apple that makes silly changes ...

I "upgraded" to a newer version of Firefox (still ancient by some
people's standards), and they've made some silly changes. Three I've
found so far:

   - [Not entirely if this is a change] Clicking in the address box
     or search box no longer selects the existing content - you 
     have to manually perform a Select All. 

   - Holding down the mouse button for a second or so (on a link or 
     bookmark for example) no longer displays the pop-up menu - you
     have to Control-Click.

   - Clicking on links in other applications causes Firefox to
     open them in a new tab - in the old version it re-used the
     current tab.

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#52583

On 11-23-2013, 20:56, Your Name wrote:
>     - Clicking on links in other applications causes Firefox to
>       open them in a new tab - in the old version it re-used the
>       current tab.

There's a Pref for that

-- 
Wes Groleau

    There ain't no right wing,
    there ain't no left wing.
    There's only you and me and we just disagree.
                               (apologies to Jim Krueger)

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#52634

In article <l6s4e2$tk4$2@dont-email.me>, Wes Groleau
<Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> wrote:

> On 11-23-2013, 20:56, Your Name wrote:
> >     - Clicking on links in other applications causes Firefox to
> >       open them in a new tab - in the old version it re-used the
> >       current tab.
> 
> There's a Pref for that

Nope, at least not in this version. The only prefernce option is
whether links open in a new tab or a new window ... not reuse the
existing tab/window (which is how the previous version worked).

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#53023

In article <241120131456106691%YourName@YourISP.com>, Your Name
<YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

> Just to prove it's not only Apple that makes silly changes ...
> 
> I "upgraded" to a newer version of Firefox (still ancient by some
> people's standards), and they've made some silly changes. Three I've
> found so far:
> 
>    - [Not entirely if this is a change] Clicking in the address box
>      or search box no longer selects the existing content - you 
>      have to manually perform a Select All. 
> 
>    - Holding down the mouse button for a second or so (on a link or 
>      bookmark for example) no longer displays the pop-up menu - you
>      have to Control-Click.
> 
>    - Clicking on links in other applications causes Firefox to
>      open them in a new tab - in the old version it re-used the
>      current tab.

Here's another one ... in the old Firefox when clicking on a found link
in a Google image search there used to be a side-frame with a direct
link to the image rather than waiting for the entire original website
to load (very handy since I'm still on a dial-up connection.

In the new(er) Firefox, there is now side-frame and I'm forced to wait
for the website to load.  :-(

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#53288

>  - Holding down the mouse button for a second or so (on a link or 
>  bookmark for example) no longer displays the pop-up menu - you
>  have to Control-Click.

Yeah I hated when they did that too, I used that all the time. I read it 
was done to encourage the use of tabs.

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#53291

In article <super70s-889CF7.20032412122013@bonxibon.datemas.de>,
super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

> >  - Holding down the mouse button for a second or so (on a link or 
> >  bookmark for example) no longer displays the pop-up menu - you
> >  have to Control-Click.
> 
> Yeah I hated when they did that too, I used that all the time. I read it 
> was done to encourage the use of tabs.

I can't see how the contextual pop-up menu would discourage the use of
tabs ... in fact the only two reasons I ever use the pop-up menu is to
open a link in a new tab or to save the image. More like sheer laziness
on the part of the programmers who probably assumed everyone had a two
button mouse.   :-\

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#53304

In article <131220131809362323%YourName@YourISP.com>,
 Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

> In article <super70s-889CF7.20032412122013@bonxibon.datemas.de>,
> super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
> 
> > >  - Holding down the mouse button for a second or so (on a link or 
> > >  bookmark for example) no longer displays the pop-up menu - you
> > >  have to Control-Click.
> > 
> > Yeah I hated when they did that too, I used that all the time. I read it 
> > was done to encourage the use of tabs.
> 
> I can't see how the contextual pop-up menu would discourage the use of
> tabs ... in fact the only two reasons I ever use the pop-up menu is to
> open a link in a new tab or to save the image. More like sheer laziness
> on the part of the programmers who probably assumed everyone had a two
> button mouse.   :-\

How is it "lazy" to remove something? That takes extra effort (unless 
they were making other changes, and it would have been more complicated 
to keep this old feature working).

If an application didn't already have the feature, not adding it might 
be due to laziness.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***

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#53313

In article <barmar-263217.11251313122013@news.eternal-september.org>,
Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> In article <131220131809362323%YourName@YourISP.com>,
>  Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> 
> > In article <super70s-889CF7.20032412122013@bonxibon.datemas.de>,
> > super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
> > 
> > > >  - Holding down the mouse button for a second or so (on a link or 
> > > >  bookmark for example) no longer displays the pop-up menu - you
> > > >  have to Control-Click.
> > > 
> > > Yeah I hated when they did that too, I used that all the time. I read it 
> > > was done to encourage the use of tabs.
> > 
> > I can't see how the contextual pop-up menu would discourage the use of
> > tabs ... in fact the only two reasons I ever use the pop-up menu is to
> > open a link in a new tab or to save the image. More like sheer laziness
> > on the part of the programmers who probably assumed everyone had a two
> > button mouse.   :-\
> 
> How is it "lazy" to remove something? That takes extra effort (unless 
> they were making other changes, and it would have been more complicated 
> to keep this old feature working).
> 
> If an application didn't already have the feature, not adding it might 
> be due to laziness.

Depends whether that particular version upgrade was a re-write, or
perhaps the PC version doesn't have the feature so is added to the Mac
version, etc. Numerous possible reasons.

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