[3459] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Mozilla multiple instances
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oliver Thomas)
Fri Sep 6 16:48:05 2002
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 16:48:09 -0400
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Cc: Oliver Thomas <othomas@mit.edu>, William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>,
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From: Oliver Thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
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> Look: Let me try first to make the dialogs more responsive, either by
> changing what Mozilla's own dialogs say in the chrome or by adding a
> helpful message of our own. I'll do that and you can evaluate it for
> user-comprehensibility.
That's sounds reasonable. Keeping the user from doing the wrong thing is
almost as good as making the right thing happen automatically.
> I guess my problem is that I don't consider unexpectedly getting the
> Profile Manager dialog "serious trouble." Annoying, yes, especially for
> the help desk. Worth trying to work around, sure, especially for the
sake
> of the help desk. But not serious trouble. Not data-destructive, nor
does
> it even crash the browser.
Getting the dialog itself is not "serious trouble" but it's easy to see
how the user might assume there's a problem, and try to do the right
thing by creating a new profile or deleting the offending one, and get
himself into trouble that way (while well intentioned). Anyway, a more
explanatory dialog would prevent this as well, so I think we're good.
Oliver
