FireFox 3 EULA

Steve Hill steve at nexusuk.org
Mon Sep 22 10:31:05 UTC 2008


On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Tim wrote:

> setting your language preferences (what can you read, what do you 
> prefer, necessary for painless use of websites that do content 
> negotiation)

Should this not be a system wide setting rather than browser specific?  It 
isn't as if anyone would want their whole system to be in German, except 
the browser which is set to French...  (Although I don't think the current 
situation of installing all languages for all applications is a great one 
- for public terminals it is reasonable to provide people access to all 
languages, but for personal workstations it is just a waste of disk space 
and bandwidth since most people only use one or two languages).

> For instance, why would you want a website to disable your right-click 
> menus?  That's just dumb.

There are legitimate reasons in some cases - for example, Google Maps 
replaces the right-click menu with a context menu for the map itself 
rather than the standard browser context menu.

On the privacy side, I was disappointed to see the "Allow foreign cookies" 
option disappear from the FireFox user interface when FireFox 2 came along 
- you have to hack about in about:config to turn them off these days.  I'm 
not sure there's any reason to allow them by default either, I always have 
foreign cookies turned off and I don't think I've found any websites that 
break.

  - Steve
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