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Re: Firefox
by Michael on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @00:29

The office helper is only annoying because 99% of the time it guesses wrong what you want to do. And it's annoying because it hides important information on screen. I propose a bar like the popup suppression bar in Firefox which doesnt hide anything and I think that a programming language is much simpler than a real language so there are some reasonable guesses you can make. In fact, text completion is already such a feature and not less obtrusive than what I proposed. Additional, you can always disable a specific feature. The problem with clippy is that it isn't really clear in what situations it will help you at all. You can only enable or disable it completely. And when you enter a question in natural language it cannot find most of the time a good answer because computers can't do that correctly anyway as we all know. One of the worst ideas Microsoft ever had...

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