I love competition in the market just as much as the other guy. I’m comfortable with IE7, Opera, FF, and if the need be, Safari.
For the most part, I use Firefox nightly for general web browsing, and IE7 for forums and blogs. However, invariably, without fail, every single time a I install Firefox, within a month I am forced to either format or use IE7\/Opera instead. This has been going on ever since I started using "Firefox" 3 years ago.<\/p>\n
The Bug? No longer being able to cut and paste. AFAIK (from my programming experience), cut and paste is a simple API, you tell it what to copy and the PC does the rest. So imagine my frustration whet every single install of Firefox<\/strong> goes senile on me, and starts to forget to copy every now and then. It continues to get worse.<\/p>\n For the first month or so, Firefox runs perfect, when I tell it to copy, it copies; and when I don’t, it doesn’t. But before I know it, when I select text and attempt to copy (either ctrl+c, or right-click -> copy, or Edit -> Copy), instead of copying it empties the clipboard. I close Firefox, open Word, ReGet, IE, or something <\/em>just to find out that my clipboard is empty. Thank God for Firefox’s "Go" menu and its list of recent sites, but that’s quite besides the point…<\/p>\n I don’t normally bug non-reproducibles. There really is no point IMO since they rarely are acted upon. But today I was posting something, then decided to cut and paste it into IE to use ieSpell.. *poof* it was gone. A page disappeared in a world of zeroes and ones. Enough is enough, I went to bugzilla to post it, then on instinct did a search… And I couldn’t believe my eyes! Over 20 separate reports, the first of which<\/a> was posted in March 2002!! That bug report alone had over 60 comments and complaints, coming in steady for four years! <\/strong>Yet even now<\/em> there is no solution. It exists in all builds, stable or otherwise, nightly, hourly, and more. <\/p>\n I have taken this particular bug on as my mission. If I have the time, I’ll go through the source, but I think the best way to help is to bring it to attention. Firefox cannot expect to beat the competition without seriously thinking about 4 year old bug reports with no solutions and constant complaints and feedback.<\/strong><\/p>\n Please help making the world of internet browsers and the competition between them a better place! Link to this post, vote the bug on bugzilla<\/a>, check out the code, seed<\/a> and digg<\/a> the story!<\/p>\n *UPDATE*<\/strong> I love competition in the market just as much as the other guy. I’m comfortable with IE7, Opera, FF, and if the need be, Safari. For the most part, I use Firefox nightly for general web browsing, and IE7 for … Continue reading
A fix is now available! Please see our post here<\/a> for details and download links to a good<\/em> version of Firefox, courtesy of NeoSmart Technologies! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"