Digital Manners Policies” is a marketing term. Let’s call this what it really is: Selective Device Jamming. It’s not polite, it’s dangerous. It won’t make anyone more secure — or more polite.
I mean, honestly, Ashlee. If you want to be a rebel, think like a rebel. Did Amy Winehouse ever ask her mother’s permission before snorting lines off the nightstand?
That means learning to work with with our colleagues, no matter where they fall on the spectrum of specialized industry knowledge. That means learning to educate each other — without looking down our noses — and concentrate on bringing everybody up to a high level instead of letting pettiness and infighting drag us down. And that means accepting the fact that whichever group we naturally fall into, we’ll always have something to learn from the folks on the other side.
Firefox 3 launched a while back. One of it’s new features is the Awesome Bar. Stupid name for a great feature.
It’s a smart address bar, which searches page titles aswell as web addresses. I won’t go into detail on how it works here — Edilee’s Firefox 3 Smart Location Bar Saves You Time does a much better job. Once you’ve acclimatised, it’s a brilliant tool.
That said, reading the comments on that article would leave you thinking it’s a complete disaster:
There’s nothing awesome about this; it’s downright stupid. I have not and I will never use the address bar this way.
The problem? It takes a little while to get used to the way it works. Users have spent years using the address-bar way only for Mozilla to change it entirely.
Unfortunately, rather than giving it a chance, many users are going with the knee-jerk reaction and either rolling back to Firefox 2 or desperately searching for an extension that’ll restore the old behaviour. This comment was particularly good:
The oldbar extension got rid of this ridiculous feature for me, otherwise it would have been a deal breaker.
The good part? The oldbar extension reverts the look and feel of the address bar, but it continues to work in exactly the same way. Hooray for the placebo effect!
