Key bindings in Firefox; edit vs. sidebars!

[Eric Dunbar]

> >My partner now automatically restarts the computer when she finds it
> >in Ubuntu -- she finds the FireFox interface too unpolished to bother
> >with
> >
> That's a chocolate and vanilla thing*.  I have always found IE
> unpolished and have always installed Netscape, then mozilla, on every
> windows machine I am forced to use.

You poor Windows user, you! IE for Windows does suck but what now
languishes on the Mac-side of things has now slipped so far behind
Camino/Mozilla/Netscape/FireFox (Microsoft *officially* stopped
supporting IE for Mac when Apple [got fed up with Microsoft doing
nothing in the browser world and] released Safari two years ago). It's
a shame that the MBU (Mac Business Unit) stopped developing IE for Mac
since it was the best browser out there (for all platforms) in the
late 90s.

> >& OO.org isn't compatible enough with the Word or Excel documents
> >that she has to download for work :-( ).
>
> Fair enough, though I have found all but the documents with complex
> frames to be quite compatible.  For Excel files, have you tried gnumeric
> (far superior IMO to OOo Calc)?

I haven't bothered trouble-shooting her problems (too busy
by-and-large & it's not a high-priority issue). I like GNUmeric but
OO.org is similar enough to Excel that there's virtually no learning
curve (seeing as I've been using Excel since version 3 I don't want to
have to re-learn things (yes, in 1989 Microsoft had a spread sheet,
that, _at the time_, was so far ahead of its time... unfortunately,
conceptually it hasn't progressed since version 5.0 (1994)).

Off on a tangent... in Microsoft's history I can only point to three
pieces of software that Microsoft got right and (more-or-less) created
themselves: Excel, Internet Explorer (before they created an
artificial monopoly and _stopped_ developing it) and Windows NT 4.0
(for its time, a _damn_ stable pseudo-consumer OS).

Eric.