RE: Re: Urgent call for testing: Firefox 2.0RC3

[joakim at bildrulle.nu]

I will try to do that, and I have some other ideas growing regarding laptops
and multi network profiles that is not easy to manage today. Maybe for edgy and
the new Upstart init there will be possible to add profiles based on user or
network patterns (ie IP range or DHCP options) to trigger start and stop of
network deamons such as NIS and NFS. I will dig in and try to come up with a
laptop profile feature spec

Laptops are becoming cheap and popular and not only used by business people
anymore.

Joakim

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> ---- Original Message -----
> Date: 21-Oct-2006 21:42:02 +0200
> From: Arwyn Hainsworth <arwynh+ubuntu at gmail.com>
> To:  <joakim at bildrulle.nu> <ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Urgent call for testing: Firefox 2.0RC3
> 
> These are big changes, how about suggesting them as features for v3.0? They
> can probably also be added as extensions if need be.
> 
> Arwyn
> 
> On 22/10/06, joakim at bildrulle.nu <joakim at bildrulle.nu> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > On a related subtopic I'd like to add that Firefox could be improved
> > supporting
> > laptops for the same reason because in an environment with a touchpad one
> > might
> > try to use arrow keys and tab for navigation in pages and loosing data
> > accidently by pressing whatever keys and also dipping neandertahl fingers
> > on
> > the touchpad many times. I have two suggestions for laptop improvents not
> > involving disable things:
> >
> > 1) Be able to mark <TEXTAREA>s in forms, for certain URL:s only, as
> > bringing up
> > a text editor of choice
> >
> > This would help people using webmail interfaces not only from above
> > mentioned
> > problems but also from timeouts and autologout from the webmail portal.
> > Could
> > be implemented as a right click + check option
> >
> > 2) Be able to recognize a laptop and change behaviour of the PgUp and PgDn
> > keys
> > so they don't stick in the first input field of a form.
> >
> > How often is there a page of text in the first textfield of a form BTW?
> > Very
> > annoying when using a laptop with key navigation.
> >
> > So rather be context sensetive on multiple levels than removing behaviours
> > that
> > is well known to some people and hated by others
> >
> > IMHO
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