Comments on: Firefox 3.0 – ruining a perfectly good browser

By: Andrei Rinea

Andrei Rinea — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:06:24 +0000

Opera is so much better. You get mouse gestures, trash can and many more for which you'd have to download bloaty plugins in Firefucks.. er.. fox.

By: Konrad

Konrad — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:03:13 +0000

There's a simple solution for quirks like “beta.st…” or “modos.org” etc.: you can just delete these obsolete URIs from your completion history by selecting them and pressing Ctrl+Return. So, this problem actually has a very simple, quite elegant solution. Your other problem ist simply due to habit or lack thereof. Yes, FF 3 *changed* the way the browser bar worked, and the user has got to relearn. I don't think it's for the worse, though.
IMHO, what's much, *much* worse than these few changes in handling is the abysmal performance of the new browser bar. After a Firefox restart (necessary all too often) the bar is basically unresponsive for up to 10 seconds. Complete fail.

By: Sander

Sander — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:52:39 +0000

About the download manager: I absolutely love what chrome does in that space; ie show the downloads in the status area below the page (did you know you can have your downloads auto-open when you click the download button before the download is completed?)