On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 19:22 +0000, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
Just upgraded to this. Am I alone in finding it very disconcerting? In fact, its so disconcerting that I'm seriously thinking of migrating to Konqueror.
I didn't like it much at first...my biggest complaint was that a very important plugin refused to load even with the compatibility checking turned off...not really Mozilla's fault and more VMware for suddenly making my virtual machines live at the mercy of firefox working or not.
First there is the way fonts behave. Completely weird. Large spaces between words. It looks sort of like monospace, but for words, and the spacing on the page of a chunk of prose is weird.
Can't say I have seen that behaviour here...is this a distro specific build or a vanilla package ?
Then some pages simply don't display properly - ones which used to in 2.x That is, chunks of them are simply missing. 90% of the themes do not work with 3.x yet, so your ability to change any of the appearance is limited.
I had some site compatibility issues when I first got it (which admittedly was when Uubuntu stuck the beta in Feisty) but it seems to have settled down now and apart from the odd slight layout issue I can't remember the last time I had a problem that actually prevented me from using a site...do you have any examples, it would be good to see.
Perhaps most disconcerting is the way autocompletion now seems to work. When you type in a url, it produces a list of suggestions in large font, with legends under them, most of which appear not to have been ones you've previously visited, and most of which I have no intention of ever visiting.
For me every choice it displays is either previously visited or in my bookmarks. So again I am not sure why your configuration differs.
It feels like a sort of weird spam. What on earth was wrong with just giving you a list in some reasonably sized and neutral font? Is there any way to get back to that?
Some tinkering in about:config might do it..but good luck finding the right option..Google might help here.