that's my stapler » firefox http://www.thatsmystapler.org Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler. Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:34:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 the needs of the one http://www.thatsmystapler.org/2008/06/26/the-needs-of-the-one/ http://www.thatsmystapler.org/2008/06/26/the-needs-of-the-one/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:04:45 +0000 Shade http://www.thatsmystapler.org/?p=71 Madcoder rants about the untrusted SSL certificate handling in Firefox 3, and suggests this regarding his own preferred implementation:

It’s enough for 99.9% of the users.

Isn’t that exactly the kind of uninformed pronouncement that gets us a lot of bad user interface design in the first place?

]]> http://www.thatsmystapler.org/2008/06/26/the-needs-of-the-one/feed/ 0 urss considered harmful http://www.thatsmystapler.org/2005/10/02/urss-considered-harmful/ http://www.thatsmystapler.org/2005/10/02/urss-considered-harmful/#comments Sun, 02 Oct 2005 20:02:22 +0000 Shade http://www.thatsmystapler.org/?p=7 urss is a Mozilla / Firefox extension that provides a side-scrolling ticker of your RSS feed(s). Sounds nifty, and it was exactly what I was looking for at the time I first installed it. However, after I tired of it (and discovered Sage) I looked for a way to uninstall. Oh boy.

urss doesn’t have an “uninstall feature,” that being listed as something that’s in development. That’s cool, because Firefox has an extension manager; no problem, right? Wrong. urss installs itself in ~/.mozilla/firefox/[profile name]/chrome/urss where it has no need to be. After thoroughly munging my existing profile trying to be rid of this thing and get Firefox to start properly, I finally started over with a new profile.

All this is well and good, it’s a version 0.x product and all. Except that there are no bugs filed against it. Hm. I went to try and file a bug. Interesting, there’s no bug tracker for this obviously broken extension! Stay away from urss unless you’re interested in testing and fixing it yourself. You have been warned.

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