24th May 2006, 4:02 PM
Quote:ABF, what is your problem with Firefox?
I've made the list before...
-Missing numerous options everywhere!
-Menus have been rearranged to look and be laid out like IE menus -- BAD! I want Netscape menus, not IE menus, in a supposedly Netscape browser (given that Mosaic->Netscape->Mozilla->Firefox?)! For instance, Preferences should be called Preferences and be in the Edit menu, not "Options" and be in the Tools menu like IE...
-No email client, no built-in IRC, no newsgroups thing -- yeah I almost never use those features, but it's nice to have them built in and not need external applications for them. Stripping a browser of its features is a bad thing, not a good one.
-No Composer -- and that one I have used. It's really nice to have a web page maker built into the suite. Major flaw in Firefox.
-The Mozilla/Netscape 6/7/8-style skin is unavailable -- the only built in one is a very boring IE-inspired one. Where is my Mozilla look that I like so much? Idiots... This is Netscape, not Internet Explorer! ("Plugins", you say? But with all the browser revisions plugins break... I'm not sure if any of the Mozilla-look plugins still work in the newest versions of Firefox... *checks* Wait, it does. But it looks different and is less functional because of using the Firefox layout and not the Mozilla one.)
-The New Tab button, on the left end of the tab bar, is gone in Firefox. I use that button a lot and really like it! A menubar button (next to the graphic 'next', 'stop', etc buttons) is NOT a decent replacement.
-Tab key navigation options, find-as-you-type, auto-fill switch options, etc are all gone as far as I can see. Some cache options removed.
-Other options that appear to be missing at a glance include menu-level access to the Form, Popup, Image, Cookie, and Password managers (now you have to go to the options screen to see those things), the Registry Viewer, the Chrome Manager, Java Console, JavaScript Debugger, a menu-level access to the themes (instead of having to go to the Themes subscreen), etc, etc... many more things... the Sidebar for instance -- now it is two separate ones, one for History and the other for Bookmarks. The DOM Inspector and Search sidebars are gone, and you cannot simply switch between the tabs to get the different features (The F9 hotkey to open the sidebar is also gone). Maybe not options I use much if ever, but removing features is BAD! I'm sure I've used some of those other removed features before... I just more notice the removal of the features I did use -- the New Tab button, quick access to the Password or Cookie Managers, the Fonts section in Preferences, etc.)
I'm sure that that's just a partial list...
Note that there is another Mozilla Project bowser that appears to be better than Firefox -- SeaMonkey, the new integrated suite application. As Mozilla works fine for me so far, though, I haven't tried it... but it appears to be more like Mozilla than Firefox, so I'd assume that it's an improvement over Firefox -- though of course I can't compare it to Mozilla without using it. :)
Quote:IE at this point is desperatly playing catchup,
You seriously think that they are? Once they have tabbed browsing perhaps, but until then... (but after how many years it took Word to add multiple-documents-per-window, something other word processors had many years earlier, I am not surprised by MS being slow... :D)
Quote:For example, the IE guys admit fully just how buggy IE is. They basically state the first order of business is cutting IE away from Windows, which was a major security blunder to begin with. Then more security. After making it at least as secure as the competition (meaning basically that the user will, as always, be the weakest link in the chain), they intend on making it complient. They have stated right off the bat that unfortunatly IE7 will NOT pass the acid2 test upon it's initial release but they hope to eventually have it fully complient with some future updates.
The obvious solution here is to simply not use IE... :)
Quote:(and let's face it, by the end of that war, IE was better than Netscape was at the time)
IE was better than NS... for like six months yes, after NS4 got too old and NS7 hadn't come out yet -- NS6 was admittedly inferior. But they fixed the problem and went right back to being far better than IE with NS7... the first browser I used with tabbed browsing. Such an amazing feature...
Quote: Why would I need a bar to search for movie information at the touch of a button?
I was wondering why GR wants that plugin too, but it's certainly not a standard feature... :)
Mozilla's integrated Google Search sidebar and menu options (including one to translate a page to English) are kind of nice though, even if I don't use them that much because I prefer Yahoo to Google. :D