This!!!
Literally most of this!!!
“Put down the sacrificial dagger and step away from the goat.” Tsk, typical. I make all the effort of finding a remote hillock in Wales and an inexpensive black doe for my pagan ritual and I’m not even halfway through the banishing ceremony. It’s wet and cold and the trailing edges of my robes are muddy, and now some norm in a …
Here is some more "this" then:
Safari also doesn't like you click buttons and links too quickly. If you do, you will be told that the webserver has unexpectedly shut down the connection which is utter tosh, and the bug shows a strict adherence to Murphy's law insofar that it pulls this one if you're just about to confirm some major config change that took ages to get right.
Which is why I now use Firefox for that sort of work (no, sorry, not interested in Google code on my Mac).
And don't get me started on Mail either.
Sounds to me like an objective c++ paradigm flaw.
It's easy to write async lambdas all over the place but it doesn't mean that your code can cope with state changes in the mean time.
Which reminds me, I think it was MSIE 2, I clicked to print a page and focus returned back to the browser while it was printing. I immediately guessed that if I navigated to another page while it was printing, the browser would crash.
And it did. Changing page WHILE it was printing was like replacing a paving stoe with a banana skin.
"Sounds to me like an objective c++ paradigm flaw.'
Sounds like shit coding to me.
"And it did. Changing page WHILE it was printing was like replacing a paving stoe with a banana skin."
See the above.
Why, oh why do software companies keep hiring infinite numbers of monkeys, then release the first thing that they bang out that compiles?
But jeez, just cut the stupid internet connection :p
It won't be going to any sites.
Still, your overall point is true enough, hence the title
The goal of software companies has changed from enabling business to blocking you and wasting as much of your time as possible, if you remain unwilling to get sucked into Farmville and the like.
I'm tracking around 50 bugs, some which I filed, and I think one was fixed in 2015.
Realistically Google are the only ones with the resources to build a webbrowser, and the spec is only growing more sprawling every month. That scares me, because Google aren't neutral and their agenda is beginning to shine though.
Nanny goats are good to eat, unpissed upon by the Billy;
Billy goats are foul and rank, behold, they drink their piss
to woo the nanny wi' randy tongue, to mount 'er, silly Billy!
'Tis very much akin The Trump, his randy tongue,
his givin' us the piss!
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Vote 2016. It don't count fer shite,
'n it keeps the pollsters up all nite.
Try and see what happens when Chrome hits the Steam Community Market pages which eventually cause the "redirect loop" message to appear.
I guarantee that no matter how many times you clear cookies or whatever, it will come back eventually.
And there is NO way to configure how many HTTP redirects you want to allow, or turn it off, or access the page when it decides it's redirected too much. And there have been bugs open for years for exactly this problem.
Sadly, this also infects every Chrome-based browser (Vivaldi, etc.), which is probably why the Steam in-built browser is actually WebKit.
I have a nagging suspicion that web browsers are spawns of dark magic. In that case, it would be folly to throw any further amounts at them, it only makes them stronger.
Well-aimed lightning bolts have somewhat better chances. If your Mac is reduced to a smoldering ruin, then evil ghosts will have to leave. Probably.
I have often penned letters to the BBC requesting that their dramas be more realistic, showing full frontal nudity and graphic sex scenes uncensored in their entirety, but hey ho, they just don't listen.
However, when I write to the developers of internet browsers, asking them to accommodate, cross site-scripting, injected code, and lots of other useful tools for the wannabe merchants of malevolence, they drop everything and gleefully get on with turning, arguably the greatest invention of modern times, into the seven headed, nine i'd, beast of regressive morality.
I can't see or hear what I'm looking for, for the cacophony of whistles and bells that are thrust at me.
Grr, a hideous pox on all their houses.
...Err, is that goat and dagger still handy?
Working for me too. Each browser has its pros and cons; there's no one size fits all. I use three browsers: Tor, Firefox (with lots of privacy add ons), and Safari. Which one I use depends on what I'm doing. I consider it leveraging the strengths of each browser rather than pushing it to do something its not good at.
Still remember that, and Mosaic (which still supported gopher)
There were of course so few websites in the days of Mosaic that you could conceivably test your browser on all of them
Now I tend to use Firefox under Linux and Windows, and Chrome on Android. Works for me.
... push my fist through plate glass and drag my wrists along its edges, - 20 some sutures later...
I actually had this Safari problem too... I wasn't looking for any hills in Wales, but the phone number of a good therapist... Then I unchecked everything under Search in Safari Preferences.
@Dan 55
Excellent advice, run away... Got some tips? I am open to suggestions. Camino was my choice back in the day. Now I have many accounts to manage, and would like Chrome's nose out of my bidnus.... Don't mention FF, and I have tried Vivaldi, bookmark import helli... have I covered your suggestion?
Got sane tips?
Please share!
> You'd have to sacrifice the whole population of London in order to upgrade iTunes into a simply dreadful programme. Anything less and you just make it stronger.
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The only reason I ever installed whyTunes (and in a MSWin VM at that, since it just refuses to work under Wine) was to use a $50 gift card I got. And you know what? Over a year later, I still have $12 credit on it (the jPop selection on whyTunes stinks).