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Pathetic print in Firefox

Fri, 25 May 2007 at 07:30 • Chyetanya Kunte • Filed under Browser, Usability

There are times when you need Internet Explorer to do a job, I admit. Take for example the case of printing. Considering the competition, it sure does its job.

Going ga-ga over standards is valid and makes sense to designers and data-miners, but what about the end-users, who just want to print hotel reservation tickets, trip itineraries that run longer than a page? May be that’s not important for team Firefox, I guess.

And since when did they add the Shift key to the combination for an accessibility shortcut in Firefox? Earlier, it was just hold Alt and press the assigned accessibility key (like 1 for home on this site). Now, it is Shift, Alt and press 1!

Firefox team, please note this is an accessibility key—for humanities sake—not meant for a keyboard trapeze. Please.

And if you’re solely on Linux, you’ve got to live through this idiocy, because you’re stuck with Firefox (or Iceweasel).

For the record, I am a Firefox user since it wasn’t even called that (we go way back to 1999). Mozilla, do you need another ten years to fix the print or understand accessibility?

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