Clickless? No, thanks.
My reasons are simple, but important. I think these are the same reasons which will affect others’ decisions greatly as well.
While the window is out of focus, I can browse the Internet while doing other things (for example, typing into an instant messaging window). This is both good and bad. Good because it makes multitasking a bit easier; bad because when I move my mouse pointer to another location on the screen (for example, if I’m writing an email and run over to hit the “Start” button, or if I want to go down to the taskbar to check how much battery is remaining on my laptop), I accidentally “click” a multitude of links. This is very undesirable and ends up costing me more time than the multitasking enhancement provides. It’s an unfair trade here.
I have an addiction problem: I love looking at CSS designs. I mean, I absolutely love it. I can’t get enough. Naturally, my Bloglines subscriptions include such places as CSSBeauty, Unmatched <Style>, CSSVault, CSS Drive, Style Gala, and more. As I visit the beautiful CSS designs that people have created, I have a tendency to forget to hold the Shift key (which tells Don’t Click It to halt functioning until the key is released) when hovering over menu items and such. As a result, I end up rapidly visiting many pages (often not even from the same site) that I didn’t want to see. The ability to change things on-mouse-over provides a nice feeling of interactivity with a site, and that interactivity is eliminated with Don’t Click It. I know I can hold Shift to avoid this problem, but it gets tiring after awhile…
It’s not difficult to get used to, though. I disabled the extension, but I keep putting my mouse over links and thinking “Why isn’t it going anywhere?” I’ll have to get used to clicking again now, but while it lasted, being click-free wasn’t the most uncomfortable experience — deciding when to go somewhere on my own is better for me, though.
So, what about you? Have you made the switch, or at least tried it? What did you decide to use and why?
Heh, I called it. =P There are just too many things your mouse can go over. Now a touch screen perhaps…
June 23rd, 2005 at 10:15 am
Ditto from me on the no thanks. I will continue, for now, my, um, clicking.
June 28th, 2005 at 11:04 am
Could you possibly change dontclickit so you need to hover for one or two seconds before it activates links? I think this would make it a lot more useful.
June 28th, 2005 at 7:52 pm
Joshua, the purpose of the dontclickit script is to save time. If there was a timeout between the time you hovered over a link and the time the link was activated, you would be wasting more time than if you clicked it, which would make the script utterly useless. You can hold the Ctrl key down to prevent the script from activating links.
July 1st, 2005 at 6:41 pm