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Devil's advocate... (IMHO)
Authored by: stevec on Dec 03, '02 02:19:53PM

Sorry, I just don't get it.

Why would I want to run yet another application when I don't have to. My web browser is always open and I put a google search form on my (local) home page. It's easy to do, Google has the very simple HTML ready to copy and paste for easy addition to any web page.

The way I look at it the fewer "goodies" like this I run the better. I guess it comes from supporting computers in a corporate environment (for a living). The more stuff you have on your computer the more that can go wrong. Which is closely related to the first principle of goood engineering, the K.I.S.S. principle.



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My view...
Authored by: robg on Dec 03, '02 03:20:57PM
Searching for a website in Google while running 27 applications with roughly 80 open windows:

Method A: Move to dock, find web browser in dock, click on browser, click on new tab (don't want to lose what's there), click on Google shortcut, click in data entry box, type search phrase, hit enter.

Method B: Try to find an open window of the browser on the screen amidst the clutter, click on it, repeat most of (A).

Method C: Click on "G" in menubar, type search phrase, hit enter.

There are, of course, many other ways to do this; I've listed only a few. But I think you get the idea -- it's about ease of operation. To me, (C) is far easier and is worth the (minimal, given OS X's nature) risk of any added difficulties.

-rob.

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Devil's advocate... (IMHO)
Authored by: Glanz on Dec 05, '02 04:08:24PM

Frankly, I don't get it either..... I don't see the difference between clicking on the "G", initiating a search that will oblige the user to open another window for the info harvested anyway, and simply doing a "I'm feelin' lucky" via another tab or open window in the browser....., unless of course, the user is stuck with Internet Exasperator as browser and it crashes with more than one and one-half windows open. I agree that it is best to avoid superfluous running apps as much as possible. The fact is that Mozilla 1.2.1 makes these superfluous little apps look like cacapeepeepoopoo.



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