Posts made by Digtronics

@miyukiwork

Can't click and take a screenshot at the same time. It's impossible.

Is this a student or an intern I'm communicating with?

@miyukiwork

Ok ... 3-4 month ago, the autoupdate was set to 'off' for all apps. This is typical Google ... Once it was one single setting for all apps. Now, one per app.

Text input field issue:

Version: Opera 80.1.4244,77335 (Android)
Web page: Your "New account" page

That's it.

Also ... When writing this, it would be nice to see the comment I'm responding to ...

@miyukiwork It would be very nice if "updates" are not forced ... With professional experience with computers since the 1980's, I'm anything but impressed, when software makers have hubris and "helping" the users with "updating" the software. On regular computers, a roll-back can be performed to avoid the new "features". On Android, roll-backs are viritually impossible, due to the automatic "update" ... Unfortunally, it is very common that new bugs are added, just because the software maker seldom have the proper skills. No surprise, programmers today do less of real programming and more of patching software together, without proper understanding of the software they are using ...

Here, I have to post this using FireFox, as input fields are working properly in this browser ... To write in text fields in Opera 80, the lower edge of the field has to be clicked, instead of inside the field. That can be problematic on a mobile, as the text is often packed on the screen. There might be more issues, but have not bothered to check. I'm way past the point, when it was interesting to identify issues in software. Today, I want it to work properly, when i use it. Not spending time with sloppy work ...

Btw. Last time I read something about software updates, Google require it has to be done via Google Play. No automatic updates, what so ever. One reason is security, even though Google have issues grasping the concept themselves ...