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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.

See other posts tagged with firefox usability extensions and all posts made in November 2006.

Comments

alf
06 November, 2006 at 11:24

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.

Aristotle Pagaltzis
06 November, 2006 at 13:09

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.

Pip
06 November, 2006 at 15:06

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!