Sad Firefox day
Posted on: 06.19.2008
Don’t get me wrong, the under-the-hood features of Firefox 3 are really awesome. The page rendering speed alone was enough for me to switch. However, the overall look and feel of the browser chrome in Windows is turning me off to no end. Boner inversion complete.
Toolbar
In my opinion the new toolbar icons and layout are a huge step backwards. It looks like they tried to copy IE 7’s horrible reinvention of the browser toolbar. I’m confused as to why the Mozilla team thinks that web users can’t find the back button unless it jumps off the window and punches them in the face.
Firefox 3 – ugly and obtrusive:
Firefox 2 – pretty and clean:
My solution to make Firefox 3 look semi-usable is to remove the forward and back buttons from the toolbar completely and use FireGestures for navigation.
URL Bar Rich Results
I just can’t get used to the multiple lines of data correlating to a single result. The page title and the URL are the same font size and the data has no separation edit: when used with certain Windows color schemes and user styles. Maybe alternating row colors or a divider line would make it easier to use.
The real version: (using a silver color scheme)
My fantasy Version: (using any color scheme)
Sadly, there is no way to turn off Rich Results and revert back to the old intuitive results drop down. edit: A thank you goes out to Michael Montgomery for pointing me towards Oldbar.
I can’t imagine how these new changes even came about. Why “fix” the toolbar when it isn’t broken? Why make auto-complete even more complicated and unintuitive? Are they trying to please some super-geeze that recently dropped a ton of cash to be on the Mozilla board or something? I just don’t get it.
