#Firefox os x 10.11 no bookmarks location download
Of course, if every stupid little save as wasn’t routed through the download manager it would probably alleviate the problem – Seriously, what in blazes is up with routing every save image as through the download manager – if you can right click to “save image as” you’ve ALREADY downloaded it, and if you look close with larger images, sometimes it actually DOWNLOADS IT AGAIN.īut this brings up the other ‘problem’ – you go to start a download, and if it is from a server that takes a while to handshake (FTP for example, though some http servers can be bad – lord help you on a timeout error) the whole browser locks up until everything times out or the download starts – because they insist on running their own crappy tasking model instead of handing it off to the host OS like everyone else in the world. Nuetering the cache? Oh yeah, THAT’s desirable using a plugin to save your state every time a page is opened, so you can reload after the crash? … and this resolves the problem HOW? The ‘im_on_minimize’? Works so long as you don’t save anything – a deal breaker for me being I’m a web developer that has to test links. … and for all the workarounds, patches, the problem is STILL there. You can TELL the problem is related to the download manager as it STILL does this, including the latest 1.5 stable and the 2.0 beta, meaning to me they’ve done exactly two things about this problem – and Jack left town, took his shit with him… (I’m sure we all had a ‘cringing chuckle’ over that one) Even better, six to seven months ago they finally acknowledged the problem – as being a ‘feature’ not a bug. … and when I reported the problem, the best response they could come up with was to try and take me to task for using the term ‘crash’ instead of ‘hang’ – a distinction I’ve not heard in three decades of PROGRAMMING. Eventually around the 200 meg mark (regardless of how much memory is in the machine) cpu use peaks, and you have to kill the browser using task manager/kill/whatever your host OS uses to off the bugger. (saving files seems to excasterbate the problem). Way back on 0.89 I filed a bug report about how whenever you open/close tabs it didn’t release the memory – ESPECIALLY if you save files from those tabs.
> I thought the whole idea of opensource was getting closer to the ‘grass root users’ when it is more just an easier way for programmers to tell users to go screw themselves if there is a problem with a said product.
Yes, The Mozilla Foundation does have paid developers (thanks to agreements with Google & others who pay to get put on the search bar, for instance), but not every OSS project has that luxury. OTOH, the part about “only ensures they will not ever have the same opportunity to find and fix their problems as effectively.”, sure but they do have one advantage: they have a team of *paid* engineers working on it, people who can devote 100% of their work time to it.
#Firefox os x 10.11 no bookmarks location code
The fact that IE/Opera are not open-source, and not submitting their source to anyone willing to criticize the code only ensures they will not ever have the same opportunity to find and fix their problems as effectively. There are more people able to review the code for errors, and report/fix them, thus it will generally end up being a more secure/stable product in the long run.
“Before you get all worked up – keep in mind this is EXACTLY why open-source is better.
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