dmd goes epic

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:03:23 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
> 
> Sigh... I long for the good ole days of Opera 2, which *used* to be
> the cleanest, fastest, least crash-prone, least resource-hogging
> browser back in the day. I still use Opera as my main browser 'cos it
> still has the best UI for me (I've tweaked it to my heart's content
> -- it lets you do that -- and the built-in per-domain-suffix
> JS/cookie/popup settings are a lifesaver for me),

I get that per-domain-disabling feature with FF's NoScript plugin,
which I find to be by far the easiest, most convenient, and most
sensible way to do it. It's always just right there in the corner
letting me do temporary or permanent enabling of stuff for whatever
domain or domains are involved in a page. I'd never want to give up
NoScript.

> but gone are the
> days of being cleanest, fastest, least crash-prone, and least
> resource-hogging. :-(  Its memory usage is particularly annoying
> these days, and I frequently find it disk-bound even when I'm not
> doing anything.
> 
> I wish the devs would focus more on solidifying the core browser and
> tune it up like the good ole days, instead of wasting time on
> peripheral things that I don't even care about, like mobile syncing,
> email, chatroom, cloud, etc. (why it is that browsers these days are
> obsessed with feeping creaturism until they become a
> poorly-reimplemented standalone *OS*, I will never understand).
> 

All those creeping features and they still won't add the *one* I
really want: An option for a good, classic, native UI. :(

Because apparently we're not allowed to find the browser UI changes to
be anything less than objectively stellar improvements. (Think I'm
exaggerating? Just try raising any objections to any browser UI changes
to them or even suggesting that they be optional, and just see how
people react.)