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    Quote Originally Posted by Elysia View Post
    Oh, so you can say "........ you" to the developers when you get a crash? Thanks for screwing over the rest of us that can benefit from bug fixes which you might find.
    Re-enable that crash reporter again. Pronto.
    Users do not have to respect poorly designed software, which that bug reporter mostly is. Following my last update, after a crash it would endlessly repeat itself, meaning they frequently get the same bug reported ten times. I wouldn't be surprised if that thing isn't even attached to anything, lol -- they have so much data to ignore.

    It's also oriented toward crashes caused by mis-handling content, which is a very optimistic approach: "Oh my software crashed? Somebody must have fed it the wrong thing, because it is bug-free otherwise!"

    I still prefer firefox to chrome and the mozilla spin offs like icecat, which if you think firefox can get screwy, try icecat or epiphany for a while. Obviously maintaining and developing these things is a lot of work. But the bug reporter is pointless, methinks. WRT to widescale bugs, they are going to find out anyway. WRT to everything else, that tish goes straight into the garbage. The "bug reporter" is just another creep feature that now has to be debugged and maintained.
    Last edited by MK27; 06-26-2011 at 09:01 AM.
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    GNU C Function and Macro Index -- glibc reference manual
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