Any way to improve FR?

Question

After trying it for a few weeks, FR feels like the "other guys" developed it. Are there workarounds, alternatives, etc for any of the following (I've looked here and not found anything)
1. Takes several clicks on the remote to get FR started
2. You always have to go through the menu from the start -- no way to go directly to frequently used media directories
3. Menu font is way too large -- often can't tell one item from another.
4. FR often "waits" at some items when scrolling through lists, for no apparent reason.
5. Attempts to rapidly scroll up and down menu lists often result in a FR unexpected quit.
6. The level of control for FF and REW is not fine enough -- jumps in 30 second increments.
7. After leaving FR, it keeps running for up to 15 minutes, preventing ejection of media it used.
Can't shake the impression that FR is an interesting demo and Apple never got around to a production release. Does anyone have hacks, alternatives, etc. that add the funtions performance and control one might expect?

Answer 1

hi, John, thanx for your help
here is the query with the 'order by' clause which returns and order 200000 rows
select * from (
select /*+ FIRST_ROWS */ dc_id,SCORE(1)
from dublincore where
contains(xml,'l%,de% inpath(//dc:title)',1)>0
ORDER BY SCORE(1) DESC
) where rownum<11
with the statistics...
Transcurrido: 00:05:55.03
Execution Plan
0 SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=HINT: FIRST_ROWS (Cost=2 Card=1 B
ytes=26)
1 0 COUNT (STOPKEY)
2 1 VIEW (Cost=2 Card=1 Bytes=26)
3 2 TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'DUBLINCORE' (Cost=2
Card=1 Bytes=2022)
4 3 DOMAIN INDEX OF 'DUBLINCORE_XML_IDX' (Cost=2)
Statistics
213882 recursive calls
2 db block gets
377436 consistent gets
30399 physical reads
0 redo size
843 bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
503 bytes received via SQL*Net from client
2 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
3 sorts (memory)
0 sorts (disk)
10 rows processed
here is another query which returns 150000 rows and has an 'order by' clause too, but this returns in 2 seconds...
select * from (
select /*+FIRST_ROWS(10)*/ dc_id,SCORE(1)
from dublincore where
contains(xml,'l%,de% inpath(//dcterms:isPartOf)',1)>0
order by SCORE(1) desc
) where rownum<11
with statistics
Transcurrido: 00:00:04.04
Execution Plan
0 SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=HINT: FIRST_ROWS
1 0 COUNT (STOPKEY)
2 1 VIEW
3 2 TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'DUBLINCORE' (Cost=2
Card=1 Bytes=100)
4 3 DOMAIN INDEX OF 'DUBLINCORE_XML_IDX' (Cost=2)
Statistics
8358 recursive calls
2 db block gets
5979 consistent gets
64 physical reads
0 redo size
844 bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
503 bytes received via SQL*Net from client
2 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
3 sorts (memory)
0 sorts (disk)
10 rows processed