{"id":497,"date":"2007-12-11T20:07:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T04:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/too-smart-part-2\/"},"modified":"2007-12-11T20:07:20","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T04:07:20","slug":"too-smart-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/too-smart-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Smart Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/bash-too-smart\/\">complaining not long ago<\/a> about a common program that was growing too smart by default. It&#8217;s happening again. Is Mozilla Firefox your browser of choice? Did you think that version 2 already did everything you could possibly think of (except for maybe windowless plugins under Unix\/X11)? I have been keeping up with version 3 (unflatteringly called &#8216;Minefield&#8217;) since the alphas. Take a look at what is coming:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eggs\/images\/firefox-minefield-smart-url.png\" alt=\"Firefox 3 \/ Minefield Smart URLs\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Firefox users might be used to the feature where typing in part of a URL autocompletes to recently-used URLs that begin the same way. The developers decided to take the feature one step further and start searching for the text string in <em>any<\/em> part of <em>any<\/em> recently used URL. Or its title, for that matter. Honestly, this could be useful in scenarios I have encountered, such as when I remember visiting a URL recently that lived somewhere under biguniversity.edu, but since the precise server was named www.foo-dept.biguniversity.edu, the autocomplete did not necessarily help. Still, in those cases, I could always fall back on the more sophisticated history panel.<\/p>\n<p>And just to make the idea gaudy, a recent beta update added both the title and the site icon (favicon.ico) to the dropdown autocomplete system.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a new behavior to learn. It is probably configurable through the extensive &#8220;about:config&#8221; browser page, but this will be the new default. Again, rather than being &#8220;smarter&#8221; and helping the user, the program is simply exhibiting a new behavior pattern that users will have to actively learn so they can again be productive with the same application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was complaining not long ago about a common program that was growing too smart by default. It&#8217;s happening again. Is Mozilla Firefox your browser of choice? Did you think that version 2 already did everything you could possibly think of (except for maybe windowless plugins under Unix\/X11)? I have been keeping up with version [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}