Re: Re: decline :(

On 12/07/05, Gavin Chester <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 12:01 +1000, Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote:
> -snip-
> 
> > (Randomly wanders on-scene. Looks around. Noticing an audience, he
> > begins in monologue.)
> 
> Ho, hum.  What can you do with an old hack who doesn't only forget his
> lines but he doesn't know what he's talking about ;-)  I have previously
> posted here to the effect that just about everything you say bad about
> firefox is handled by extensions :-O

Oi, this was a monologue, you aren't allowed to speak! Be off with
you! (Please note the invisible smilies strewn all over this post.)
Anyway, I got every one of my lines right, save that one about
head/heard, because I came up with it on-the-fly: No lines to forget!

I'll admit to not having read your other posts, though---I subscribed
yesterday to ask a question which I later solved on my own half-way
through typing it up, and accidentally read a post instead of finding
the unsubscribe link, especially useful as now I'm procrastinating.

...

(I skip most of your corrections, because if I'm factually wrong then
there's no point in defending myself. But Firefox's extensions still
don't correct the problems of cross-platform-ness, so I'm right! :P)

Perhaps you prefer this in my defence:

Maybe you can customise Firefox to give it some of the features that I
want, searching dozens of websites (or perhaps only three; the
number's still greater than zero), but why should I bother, when I can
*all* of the features that I could want, as well as a user interface
that feels and behaves the way my other apps do (more or less, more or
less), out of the box? I mostly only use Firefox in scenarios where
adding extensions isn't possible, anyway, so it'd've been nice to get
the features out of the box on it, too.

Maybe it's just that I've been using Galeon since before Firefox was a
twinkle in its father's eye, so to speak, and I'm a bit fixed in my
ways. But that doesn't make Galeon any less better.

> > (I apologise for all the exclamation marks, and the gratuitous praise
> > when I'm sure you've head it all before :)
>                         ^^^
> 
> Yes, I think your monologue did go to your _head_ a bit ;-)

Oi! again. Came from my head, never got back!
 
> Galeon is good, but has weaknesses.  Ditto firefox.  Put down your zeal
> and use either as the need and mood takes you :-)

Oh, but I do anyway---it's just the mood never takes me to
Firefoxville, only the need. (The mood has taken me down a funny
street though, you've probably noticed :)

Anyway, I'm off to find some other podium down the road from here,
where people don't pick holes with what I have to say :P

-- 
Alexander


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