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The Web Sucks | May 27, 2003 04:56 PM | Comments (3)

I had a chuckle when I read these two bullet points in the Mozilla Firebird 0.6 Known Issues release notes:

Form auto-complete is still an unstable feature and may lead to crashes.

Followed immediately by:

Disabling of form auto-completion is not working.

Makes me wonder why I'd ever consider using something other than the World's Most Popular Browser.

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This has been my biggest beef with Phoenix for ages. They've known about this glaring and horrible bug for a half a year now and haven't done anything about it. I still lose my browser every couple days because I quickly tab out of a field and get stuck with the focus on the autocomplete area. Bang. Here's more information about it: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184202

Posted by Josh Woodward at May 27, 2003 06:13 PM

Dude,
You should check out Opera. http://www.opera.com. It's very cool, check out the mouse gestures. pretty dope.

Sam

Posted by Sam at May 28, 2003 09:58 AM

I've never had any problems with this feature. Maybe I'm not using it, but Phoenix (nor Mozilla Firebord) hasn't crashed since I installed 0.5. And every day it makes me happy I'm not using the world most popular browser, because of its nifty features (such as the auto-googling, interactive page search, tabs (how can you live without it?!), _useful_ sidebars like the download sidebar, et cetera).

Posted by Rasmus Sten at June 3, 2003 03:31 PM