Thumper wrote:DaCypher wrote:Why force unfriendly UI behavior on a user when they aren't really being protected?
It isn't unfriendly UI. It's much simpler and less broken UI. People need to stop co-opting usability terminology whenever they disagree with a UI decision.
If this is being done for 'phishing' protection, then improve the anti-phishing component. If it is done to prevent virii, then that's not a browsers job, and people should install some AV software (AVG Grisoft, Antivir, Symantec, etc.).
Why not expend that effort fixing this the _actual_ correct way, by evangelising web sites and server software vendors to improve their MIME experience?
- Chris
It most definitely *IS* unfriendly. Previously, I could click the file, choose to Open it, it would download and open using the default application without any further intervention from me. Simple, easy, quick. Now, however, I must click the file, with SAVE as my only option, download it, then I must leave the browser, use the operating system to locate the folder where the download was made, open the folder, then open the file. You can justify the additional work all you like, but don't tell me something is "simpler" when it isn't. And when all previous versions of Firefox worked a certain way, IE (both 6 and the new 7) work that way, and Opera works that way... but suddenly someone decides that the "new" Firefox SHOULDN'T work that way... it's going to be an issue. While "technically" you may be correct, PRACTICALLY it is the later versions of Bon Echo that are "broken".
