On friday I downloaded and installed Firefox 2.0 RC3. Today I downloaded and installed Firefox 1.5.0.7. Why this step backwards? A few very irritating changes:
- Apparently you cannot view raw RSS files in the browser. Firefox now assumes every RSS file is feed (and they are) and assumes you want to preview it (I do) in HTML (I don’t). If I open an RSS file in my browser, I want to see the XML – period. If I wanted to see it transformed, I would open it in my feed reader.
- A bunch of my very useful plugins don’t work yet: UrlParams, JetBrains Omea Connector, OpenNewWindowFromHere, MeasureIt
- I hate having the ‘close tab’ button on the individual tabs. Makes it difficult close a bunch of tabs quickly
- Once a certain number of tabs were open, you have to scroll over to find them… SHOW ALL MY TABS, no matter how small they get…
Other than that, FF2.0 looked and felt pretty good.
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Tags: Firefox, Firefox 1.5, Firefox 2.0, The Web, Web Browsers
Re complaint 3 :
about:config
change browser.tabs.closebuttons to ’3′
Am also waiting for some extentions to upgrade, but that’s not FF problem…the writers of the extentions need to get on the stick.
Only one I really miss is ‘blog this’.
Thanks for the about:config tip – there were too many other annoyances to make it worth-while. I agree on the extension issue… most of mine still worked, but there were too many that didn’t.
The biggest hurdle, though, was #4 — drove me CRAZY having to scroll left and right to find open tabs. Maybe there’s an about:config setting for that too.
#1 – you can ‘View Source’ on the feed preview page. Took me way to long to work that one out…