Things that annoy me about Firefox 2 UI
05 November, 2006- No close button on every tab
- No close button at the right of the tab bar
- highlight text, right-click, search uses the selected Search Box engine, not Google
- scrolling tab bar
- constant switching between “extensions” and “add-ons” between Firefox versions
- atrocious options pane for Windows users (this is actually a Firefox 1.5+ problem)
- massively slow first startup time without a splashscreen
- terrible UI for session saving (text box has become a dropdown, with no clues)
- ‘tabs’ and ‘feeds’ options tabs are poorly designed and laid out
- spell-checker dictionary doesn’t come bundled with your localised build
More as they occur to me.
Comments
alf
06 November, 2006 at 11:24
Aristotle Pagaltzis
06 November, 2006 at 13:09
Pip
06 November, 2006 at 15:06
The first couple of those are due to the theme – I’m using Tangerine, and it has close buttons in all the right places. So does Ubuntu’s Human Firefox theme.
highlight text, right-click, search uses the selected Search Box engine, not Google
IMO that’s a good default. Power users want SmartSearch anyway. 🙂
I agree with the rest.
OK, well, it doesn’t match up with my usage anyway. I leave the search box on my work search engine, and rarely change it, but I almost always want to search the web when I select and context-click a word/phrase. bah!