{"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":"

I was complaining not long ago<\/a> about a common program that was growing too smart by default. It’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 ‘Minefield’) since the alphas. Take a look at what is coming:<\/p>\n


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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 any<\/em> part of 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

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

It’s a new behavior to learn. It is probably configurable through the extensive “about:config” browser page, but this will be the new default. Again, rather than being “smarter” 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":"

I was complaining not long ago about a common program that was growing too smart by default. It’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 […]<\/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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t