* I hope they don't copy iTunes, with its extremely slow interface, lack of features, lack of extensibility, lack of options... etc...
* No tabs: They must use tabs in some confused and different way than me. Generally I have one window per browsing task, e.g. one for Gmail, another for HN with tabs of articles and comment pages I'm reading, etc... ironically it was much easier to work with 10+ tabs before the changes of Firefox 3 where they would scroll off the screen because of their fairly large minimum width... Maybe if people are using one window only, and trying to keep their mail, social networking, online radio, and everything else under the sun open all day, they might get confused, but this is sort of a solved problem. Just open another window.
* Taskfox/Ubiquity: umm, what? Most searches I do in Firefox go right to the built in search box with a simple Ctrl+K, couldn't be easier. I have over the years, starting in Firefox 2, added a few keyword searches to the location bar, because I don't like changing the search box. I have w for wikipedia, and so on. This seems similar, but I'm not sure of the utility of opening Wikipedia in a tiny dropdown... how is that faster, easier to read, or any other good quality? It seems like some kind of half hearted attempt at taking an autocompleting command line and adding some that useful on the web, but I don't see anything... useful.
* Possibly unrelated gripe: I took a while to "upgrade" to Firefox 3 from v2 because I didn't like the "AwesomeBar" and a couple of other interface changes. While I am mostly used to it now, I still can't reliably get the AwesomeBar to autocomplete some URLs. It seems to fixate on the first match, often not displaying the second match until I actually type the full URL, if at all. Not to mention the fact that even when it works, its not as fast as the Firefox 2 behavior of naively autocompleting visited URLs. I don't need to autocomplete my bookmarks, that's why they are bookmarks! I click on them!
I like Firefox, I have since Phoenix 0.4 or so, but I really don't know what they're doing anymore...
Regarding the "awesome bar", I have to say I miss it on Safari (Mac). What I like is that it matches what you type with the whole title and URL of your bookmarks and history.
On Safari, it matches only the URL and only following the right order. E.g. on Firefox, I would type "cal" and Google Calendar would show up as the first result, while for Safari I would need to type "www.google.com/cal" before getting the result. Or if I wanted to jump back to this discussion, I could type "news firefox future" and it would probably find it.
Not that I'm in love with Firefox though. I keep on switching back and forth between the two. (right now on Safari)
Highly recommend "Tab Mix Plus" for FF3; I set the minimum width to be about the size of the favicon plus 1-2 title characters, and let tabs stack in rows rather than scroll off the sides.
Thanks, I actually did fix it when I originally installed FF3, but I was referring to the behavior that everyone else sees by default. If it was a checkbox in the normal Firefox settings, that would be one thing, but its buried in a collection of keys and values with little documentation...
That brings me to another thing, the oh-so-cutesy "This might void your warranty" warning for about:config. I know they think they're being funny, but what would be a lot more useful is to actually explain whats going on, rather than scare users. I adjusted something for a less technical friend once, on their request, and they were slightly upset by the idea that Firefox could void the warranty on their computer. Seems rather immature, coming from the "Mozilla Corporation" with their flagship software...
* I hope they don't copy iTunes, with its extremely slow interface, lack of features, lack of extensibility, lack of options... etc...
* No tabs: They must use tabs in some confused and different way than me. Generally I have one window per browsing task, e.g. one for Gmail, another for HN with tabs of articles and comment pages I'm reading, etc... ironically it was much easier to work with 10+ tabs before the changes of Firefox 3 where they would scroll off the screen because of their fairly large minimum width... Maybe if people are using one window only, and trying to keep their mail, social networking, online radio, and everything else under the sun open all day, they might get confused, but this is sort of a solved problem. Just open another window.
* Taskfox/Ubiquity: umm, what? Most searches I do in Firefox go right to the built in search box with a simple Ctrl+K, couldn't be easier. I have over the years, starting in Firefox 2, added a few keyword searches to the location bar, because I don't like changing the search box. I have w for wikipedia, and so on. This seems similar, but I'm not sure of the utility of opening Wikipedia in a tiny dropdown... how is that faster, easier to read, or any other good quality? It seems like some kind of half hearted attempt at taking an autocompleting command line and adding some that useful on the web, but I don't see anything... useful.
* Possibly unrelated gripe: I took a while to "upgrade" to Firefox 3 from v2 because I didn't like the "AwesomeBar" and a couple of other interface changes. While I am mostly used to it now, I still can't reliably get the AwesomeBar to autocomplete some URLs. It seems to fixate on the first match, often not displaying the second match until I actually type the full URL, if at all. Not to mention the fact that even when it works, its not as fast as the Firefox 2 behavior of naively autocompleting visited URLs. I don't need to autocomplete my bookmarks, that's why they are bookmarks! I click on them!
I like Firefox, I have since Phoenix 0.4 or so, but I really don't know what they're doing anymore...