Irrelevance of the debate: (was "Epiphany versus Firefox" etcad nauseam...

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Wed Feb 15 04:37:19 GMT 2006


On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 20:29 -0800, Corey Burger wrote:
> > I've actually used both extensively in the past few months.
> >
> > And I just confirmed that Epi 1.9.7, the current Dapper version, does
> > not remember form fields correctly.  I opened the browser, went to
> > google.com, did a search, then closed it.  I then reopened the browser
> > and started to type the same search, and it failed to auto-complete.
> >
> > Lee
> 
> That is a bug not a feature. Be careful when you judge something, as
> it may be a bug, not a feature. So when you judge something about a
> specific feature/bug, rather than slaming it for not doing what you
> want it to do, say "I noticed it doesn't do X, but I think this might
> be a bug". This is part of the "looks like, smells like, is" test of a
> bug.

OK, well, this never worked for me with any previous version so I
assumed it was a (missing) feature.  I still think the fact that it's
apparently so fragile is a problem.

Lee




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