rolling Firefox back to 2.x

[Steve Lamb]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 06:00:41PM -0700, NoOp wrote:
> OK, enough already. I offered what I thought to be a helpful suggestion
> to Mr. Lamb's:
 
> >     Are you sure?  I still see the not-so-AwesomeBar still behaving in a
> > horrible, overloaded manner with no method of beating it back with a "just
> > work like in 2.x" stick.
 
> I take exception to "If one is spreading bad information, like NoOp
> did...". Bad information? How was the information "bad"? 

    As I explained in my very FIRST reply; your suggestion does *NOT* revert
the awesomebar to the behavior in FF 2.0.  You presented it as if it did.
that's the bad information.

> Mr. Lamb offered no alternate suggestions, and offered nothing *meaningful*
> that I can tell, but instead started his first reply to me with the all
> insulting 

    That is because, as I explained in my very first message and multiple
times since, IT... IS....NOT....POSSIBLE!  There is no meaningful suggestion
one can make in the face of that undeniable fact!  One simple cannot get FF
2.x behavior out of FF3.x's AwesomeBar!  All the methods of addressing it FAIL
because they do not change the underlying behavior.  They only change the
appearance, not the functionality.  It would be like telling someone they can
make Word behave like OOWriter by applying an OOWriter skin.  It is still Word
underneath with all the warts.  You cannot change the functionality of Word to
match exactly that of OOWriter.

> "Bzt, thanks for playing but, sorry, that is incorrect!".
> Apparently my suggestion wasn't what he was looking for so I suggested:

    To paraphrase Foghorn Leghorn, "That was a joke, son!"  When playing a
game show how do they tell you you have answered incorrectly?

A: A buzzer.
B: "Thanks for playing"
C: "You are incorrect".    

    Instead of just telling you "You're wrong, here's why" I tried to put some
levity to it to take the bite off.  Doesn't change the fact that you are
wrong.
 
> And I still maintain that those are the proper areas/forums for
> discussing/debating Fx3's Awesomebar and Fx.

    This is one of those venues.  FF is packaged for Ubuntu.  This is an
Ubuntu forum.  

> IMO to whine about how Fx3 here is simply a waste of the list's time,
> and I think that Mr. Lamb and others on this thread know that. Nothing
> that gets said here will have any effect on Fx whatsoever.

    Pardon, where was I whining?  Like I said in one of my later replies
apparently you are mistaking me for the original poster.  I didn't start this
topic.  Dotan said that the issues with FF3.x, particularly the AwesomeBar,
were addressed.  I was interested in what *HE* meant and asked *HIM*
specifically what he meant.  That's not whining about FF, that's a legitimate
inquery for information from a specific person!

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         Steve C. Lamb         | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
       PGP Key: 1FC01004       | main connection to the switchboard of souls.
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