On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Tim wrote:
setting your language preferences (what can you read, what do you
prefer, necessary for painless use of websites that do content
negotiation)
Should this not be a system wide setting rather than browser specific? It
isn't as if anyone would want their whole system to be in German, except
the browser which is set to French... (Although I don't think the current
situation of installing all languages for all applications is a great one
- for public terminals it is reasonable to provide people access to all
languages, but for personal workstations it is just a waste of disk space
and bandwidth since most people only use one or two languages).
For instance, why would you want a website to disable your
right-click
menus? That's just dumb.
There are legitimate reasons in some cases - for example, Google Maps
replaces the right-click menu with a context menu for the map itself
rather than the standard browser context menu.
On the privacy side, I was disappointed to see the "Allow foreign cookies"
option disappear from the FireFox user interface when FireFox 2 came along
- you have to hack about in about:config to turn them off these days. I'm
not sure there's any reason to allow them by default either, I always have
foreign cookies turned off and I don't think I've found any websites that
break.
- Steve
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