Invisible wrote:
> There are several things that frustrate me about the Internet.
> 
> - Downloads with no size information. Seriously, is this thing 12KB or 
> 1.2GB? It kind of matters!

Oh, come now.  If it really mattered, Mr. Gates or Mr. Jobs would have 
*told* you!

> - Links that won't open in a new tab. So you've got a screenful of 
> search results, but you *cannot* open each result in a seperate tab. 
> Sometimes a new tab opens, but the original tab navigates to the new 
> location as well. Sometimes you get a new blank tab. Sometimes you get 
> no tab at all. Either way, I've got a huge number of links to 
> investigate, and I have to do it by manually using the back button to 
> get back to the search results. WTF?

I think this can be generalized to "any code that changes the normal 
behavior if your browser."

> - Network installers. You know, you download the "installation package", 
> but it's just a 5KB executable that downloads the *real* installation 
> files. And redownloads them every single time you want to install the 
> application. Thank you, genius, the entire reason I manually downloaded 
> rather than clicking "install now" is that I don't have much bandwidth 
> and I've got 20 PCs to install this thing on!

Or I have to install it on that machine over there, which for perfectly 
valid reasons has no network connectivity at all.

Regards,
John

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