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From: Ann Barcomb Date: 07:39 on 04 Jun 2004 Subject: Mozilla and JavaScript Following my last complaint about Mozilla, I did install Firefox, but I was using Mozilla for the following story: Today I had opened a tab to a site that annoys me because it uses JavaScript to make the prompt jump to the login field like a hyperactive puppy, meaning that I often end up typing my password in the login field because the page hasn't finished wiggling. I expect this now, and just let it sit for a while before trying to use it. I opened another tab and was typing in a URL. For some reason the URL wasn't appearing; I assumed the browser was occupied with the other tab, as Mozilla sometimes has difficulty with multiple active tabs. I kept typing, and hit enter...and noticed the title of the annoying site change to the 'wrong password' page. The first tab's JavaScript had managed to claim focus from the URI bar of the second tab, and my URL had been entered as the login name. This really makes me wonder exactly how much power JavaScript has to affect the other tabs. It reminds me why I usually keep JavaScript off, too. Evil and wrong.
From: Ann Barcomb Date: 23:54 on 18 May 2004 Subject: a minor Mozilla hate Why, oh why, when I open preferences, can it not remember what I last wanted to alter? I never look at 'Navigator' but it's always expanded. 90% of the time I'm after 'Advanced/Scripts and Plugins', but it is always shown collapsed, despite the fact that I always leave it open as a hint. Yes, it's only two more mouse-clicks, or maybe three if I want to collapse the first one, but it's just plain dumb to think that you know what the user wants to modify, not on the basis of her previous actions, but on the basis of 'knowing what people want'. I need a preference for the preferences... That is just wrong.
From: Ann Barcomb Date: 12:54 on 18 Apr 2004 Subject: More Lotus Notes hate I've hated this program for so many reasons... Today I'm hating it because I'm at work and I'm trying to print a file. The printer appears to be inaccessible (probably it's turned off). Of course the cancel button doesn't work, so I have to go to the task manager to kill Notes since it isn't responding. Now I can't restart Notes, because it terminated in a way it didn't expect. My options are to restart the computer (I'm used to this, whenever I have to deal with Windows, so I would grumble but do it), _OR_ log out and log in again. Why, if that's all that is required to fix this alleged problem, can't Notes run the damn start-up/cleanup stuff itself? Is it going to gain something by me having to type in 5 passwords all over again (1 login, 1 Notes, 3 htaccess restricted websites)? I also have a gripe about the way that the printing is handled, since Notepad also freezes up when I try to print, and I have to kill it with the task manager since the cancel button doesn't work. But Notepad, to its credit, is willing to start again without giving me any of this shutdown crap. Wow, 20 minutes down the drain just trying to get something printed, and it still isn't printed. - A
From: Ann Barcomb Date: 08:20 on 25 Feb 2004 Subject: My cellphone's SMS software Lately I started sending SMSs again, and after several messages which failed to send, a distant part of my memory was revived and I remembered similar problems I had a few years ago. Specifically, any message which contains an unclosed right paran will fail to send. So 'hey there :)' gives the unhelpful error 'Message failed in sending'. Not only does the error message suck, the only explanations I can come up with for why it might fail are, frankly, rather scary. - Ann
From: Ann Barcomb Date: 14:05 on 24 Dec 2003 Subject: Lastminute.com software Actually, I hate every single airline booking system I've ever met, because they require cookies and JavaScript. The KLM site requires JavaScript that doesn't work with Mozilla. But right now, lastminute.com is pissing me off because of their lame error messages. Trying to search for flights leaving on the 26th gives me a warning that the latest you can book a flight is before noon the day before departure. Searching for flights on the 27th gives the same error. I hate stupid error messages. I also wonder what is so 'last minute' about planning things several days in advance. Last minute is trying to leave in 2 hours. - A
From: Ann Barcomb Date: 15:35 on 23 Dec 2003 Subject: Misconfigured anti-spam software Messages like the one below annoy me. I think it's the people more than the software though. My own experiences with SpamAssassin are fine. But I don't know of an I-hates-people list. First of all, this message was sent in response to a letter to a mailing list. If you can't distinguish a letter as being from a mailing list, at least have the decency to unsubscribe. And, if mail is only unsolicited, why reply, since the address is probably forged? Just delete it. Grrr. - A, also hating websites which require JavaScript, yet again. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [this message has been automatically generated] Please note that this address is no longer in use, and nowadays receives nothing but unsolicited commercial mail. Accordingly, any mail sent to it is automatically deleted. If you genuinely want to contact the owner of the address, please re-check your contact lists, or search the web, to find their current e-mail address. The mail you sent is reproduced in full below, for resending to the correct address. Sorry for the inconvenience! [-- Signed: the SpamAssassin mail filter]
From: Ann Barcomb
Date: 15:55 on 05 Sep 2003
Subject: More Mozilla
When trying to view the source of a page which results from a form
submission, a handy little warning pops up:
The page you are trying to view contains POSTDATA that has expired from
cache. If you resend the data, any action the form carried out (such as
a search or online purchase) will be repeated. To resend the data, click
OK. Otherwise, click Cancel.
It's the same warning you see if you try to reload the page, or sometimes
go back to it. And it is true. I checked the web server logs, and view
source really is generating an additional hit. You would think they would
consider caching the result unrendered at least long enough to allow the
page to be viewed, given the consequences of resubmission.
The offending software is
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1)
Gecko/20021130, build 2002113015
From: Ann Barcomb
Date: 15:42 on 05 Sep 2003
Subject: find verbosity
I admit...this may not be find's fault. I just notice it with find,
but it really annoys me. I want a simple way to reduce verbosity.
Specifically, I don't want to hear messages about all the directories
I don't have permission to access. I know I don't have permission to
access them, so just ignore them and continue! It's pretty common
for someone to not have access to every file...or are you only
supposed to run the command as root to avoid missing the result hiding
amid the error messages? Why can't it just ignore directories I don't
have access to?
Example output:
hrm[1] /home/ann> find /tmp -name foo
find: /tmp/1/fd: Permission denied
find: /tmp/2/fd: Permission denied
find: /tmp/3/fd: Permission denied
/tmp/foo
find: /tmp/4/fd: Permission denied
find: /tmp/5/fd: Permission denied
Ideal output:
hrm[2] /home/ann> find /tmp -name foo
/tmp/foo
(If you want to defend find by giving me a solution to this problem, I
actually welcome rationality in this instance.)
From: Ann Barcomb
Date: 09:15 on 29 Aug 2003
Subject: Software that won't take no for an answer
I don't know whether to blame Windows or the software in question, since
I only use Windows at work, and then only for dealing with a few things
that I can't do on the development machine.
When the machine is booted, before I can log on, the following box appears:
Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition
Symantec AntiVirus Realtime Protection failed to load. (OK)
I click OK. It beeps, and the window remains. I click OK. It beeps,
and the window remains. I click OK and I am now allowed to log on.
After I have logged on, a new installer window pops up for the same
program (note that I do not even have access to install the program).
I click the cancel button.
The window is replaced with one which says 'Preparing to install', but
this quickly vanishes and is replaced with the installer window again.
I cancel it. The result is the same. I cancel it for the third time,
and it goes away.
For the remainder of the day, I can just expect yellow pop-ups telling me
the software isn't installed.
Does this constitute a sighting of an Acme::Snark in production code?
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