On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Michael Wiktowy <michael.wiktowy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I did run into the same issue. But only with a few sites and not all > of them. I never drew the connection between my problems and > installing/uninstalling fennec. I guess it was the sites that I > visited using fennec that got their settings clobbered in MicroB. I > will try to delete and remake the stored passwords and see it that > helps. > > Not to be unsympathetic (because I am and believe that this sort of > thing shouldn't happen), but if you are installing something as raw as > fennec, you are living out on the bleeding edge. Expect to be cut once > in a while. Of course you're right, but note that I wasn't particularly complaining about the damage that fennec caused, I only made observations about its effects. The *real* problems I was dealing with were totally unrelated to fennec. It was a reflash and *attempted restore* that caused the major headaches. Those problems are a direct result of the implementation of the IT OS. > > I don't recall warnings to that effect on the fennec installation. > Just the default warning about third-party apps which everyone has > been trained to ignore since you can't install much without that > popping up. > If MicroB and a few of the other built-in apps were separately (un)installable packages, it would make situations like mine much less serious. > Having said that, the warning is sound. If you install stuff from > third-party repos, you have to accept some responsibility of breakage. > The QA that goes on in most of the repos needs to improve but for now > you have to be aware that it is minimal. > > /Mike > I'm perfectly willing to accept the consequences of my actions. However, when certain consequences are caused not by my actions but by poor OS implementation, I do get a bit upset. If I installed FF3 beta on Ubuntu, it would not require a complete OS reinstall (and all the other programs) in order to recover from any problem that it may cause, and I don't have that idiotic root permission issue to deal with in any event. Mark _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
