Urgent call for testing: Firefox 2.0RC3

[Jan Claeys]

Op zaterdag 21-10-2006 om 08:07 uur [tijdzone +0900], schreef Arwyn
Hainsworth:
> As far as I'm concerned, fixing a bug that can cause data loss is more
> important than keeping backwards compatibility. 
> You might say I'm slightly biased in this matter however, since I've
> lost data to this bug a number of times now and I was very pleased to
> hear it was finally fixed.

I have lost more data by accidentally pressing Ctrl-W or by clicking the
close tab and close window buttons.  Should they be removed/disabled
too?

Seriously, as I explained in the bug report there *is* a way to fix your
problem, but it is *not* by disabling everything that could possibly
cause it, because that would render Firefox useless.  And only disabling
some of these actions is nothing but masking the problem so that people
don't see the problem enough to complain.


> Having 'backspace' do anything other than 'delete last character' in
> an application where data entry is a primary use is not exactly a
> clever thing to do. Following this logic, having backspace shortcut to
> do nothing when a text field is out of focus would be better behaviour
> than 'page-up'. 

Firefox's primary use is "browsing the web" (which includes going to a
previous page), not "data entry".


-- 
Jan Claeys