Browser Woes
Jul. 28th, 2009 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I tried Firefox most of last night and was okay with it. Has a menu bar, won't hijack my search engine... today, though, it did something else that utterly and completely pisses me off.
When I enter a search term into my address bar, say 'steak tartare' for instance, I want to be given a list of potential sites that have 'steak tartare' mentioned in them. I don't want to be taken directly to a website. I especially do not, under any circumstances, want to be sent directly to wikipedia*'s entry for 'steak tartare'. I fiddled around with Foxfire's search settings, tried different toolbars & default search engines and still, no results list, just wikipedia.
I came to the nasty conclusion today that Foxfire's pop-up blocking and cookie handling is not as versatile as IE or Google Chrome. Foxfire is an all-or-nothing approach. It doesn't warn you when it's blocked a pop-up and it either makes you accept or deny all cookies, nothing in between. I don't like that.
I would be willing to give Foxfire another chance if I could find information on how to adjust Foxfire's search display options and the cookie/pop-up handling, but until then I guess it's back to IE & Chrome.
(*In case anyone is wondering, I loathe wikipedia. Yes, chances are in the most mundane cases, the information on any given wikipedia page is generally acceptable, but there's a reason why college professors tell their students to avoid wikipedia and most will not accept it as a cited resource.)
When I enter a search term into my address bar, say 'steak tartare' for instance, I want to be given a list of potential sites that have 'steak tartare' mentioned in them. I don't want to be taken directly to a website. I especially do not, under any circumstances, want to be sent directly to wikipedia*'s entry for 'steak tartare'. I fiddled around with Foxfire's search settings, tried different toolbars & default search engines and still, no results list, just wikipedia.
I came to the nasty conclusion today that Foxfire's pop-up blocking and cookie handling is not as versatile as IE or Google Chrome. Foxfire is an all-or-nothing approach. It doesn't warn you when it's blocked a pop-up and it either makes you accept or deny all cookies, nothing in between. I don't like that.
I would be willing to give Foxfire another chance if I could find information on how to adjust Foxfire's search display options and the cookie/pop-up handling, but until then I guess it's back to IE & Chrome.
(*In case anyone is wondering, I loathe wikipedia. Yes, chances are in the most mundane cases, the information on any given wikipedia page is generally acceptable, but there's a reason why college professors tell their students to avoid wikipedia and most will not accept it as a cited resource.)
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Date: 2009-07-30 04:53 am (UTC)tho Im using a mac, so maybe it works different!!
Browser Wowsers
Date: 2009-07-30 05:09 am (UTC)Well, I'm online, I can just look for myself, lol. Thanks for the suggestion, tho.
Sea Monkey Love
Date: 2009-07-31 05:58 am (UTC)Thanks so much for the suggestion!