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Help Make Firefox On Mac Suck Less
bluephone writes "Colin Barrett, one of the new Mac geniuses, and an Adium developer, has posted an entry on his blog offering an open call to all Mac users of Firefox asking them, 'What sucks about Firefox on the Mac?' He says he already knows about and is trying to solve such things as: 'Native Form Widgets (currently scheduled for Firefox 3), Keychain Integration, Firefox should have a Unified toolbar (not completely hopeless, it turns out), Performance...', but he wants to hear what else Mac users want from Firefox. So please, if you're a user of Macs and the interwebs, then RTFA, unclog your tubes, and send him your ideas."
No-one is too sure where the hell the Firefox people get their money from, but there is actual funding going on here, and if you can get a browser that people are paid to work on fulltime (people not imported straight from Indian grad schools, thank you Microsoft for playing) then why would you choose to use a browser that people work on now and then?
How we know is more important than what we know.
Dear, Colin Barret
Buy a Mac and use Firefox yourself instead of writing an article about a question for a solution where you don't know the problem for.
Next problem. But this time a real problem please... like "Help Make Slashdot editors suck less in their journalism"
(people not imported straight from Indian grad schools, thank you Microsoft for playing)
Racist much?
What the fuck do you have against Engineers in England? one of the advantages of open source is that it is open to everyone and anyone IN THE WORLD who wants to contribute. And what a best place to be educated than an Open Source project were "people imported straight from indian grad schools" can improve their coding skills and can be flamed because of their errors ?
Oh, I take that you believe that only the average White Skin Kukuxclan-American programmers are good enough for Open Source developing? Hate to break it to you but several of the head open source developers pionners are NOT caucasian (Miguel de Icaza comes to mind).
Sheesh...
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Firefox sucking has the same problem everything running on a Mac (and Lunix) has: specifically, that they are not on Windows.
So then the real question then becomes, "What can we do to be on Windows?"... and that is a question he can only answer for himself.
Probably the first step toward recovery is realizing it's just an operating system, and not a lifestyle. If a person has so little in life to identify them as an individual that they have to "act out" through anti-social operating system choices... that is more an issue which is best worked out between themselves and their mental health professional, rather than being broadcast into the public forum.