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by ryandrake 692 days ago
This could be a good thing. Too many applications are overly opinionated, make decisions on behalf of the user (without the ability to override), minimize user choice, don't respect the user's configuration, and in general, do things their way rather than the user's way. More switches is often better.
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I've actually made it a design principle that whenever two or more choices seem to present themselves and I have to decide whether to do it the one or the other way, provided it's not too difficult to implement both, I do that and then I have the much lesser burden of deciding on the most reasonable default. This is also the result of decades-long frustrations with app behavior that is artificially restricted
I agree; it also makes using Chromium for all sorts of automation a lot easier. I found these because I wanted to automate generating PDFs of a report page.