Firefox 3 - main

28 Oct 2008


      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.
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.  Tinkering at great length with the 
fonts helped a bit, I finally found one of the MS ones that looks not normal, 
but relatively bearable.  Then there is the way that they have helpfully made 
the tab closures look all the same, whether for the open tab or others, so 
you can no longer see easily by the fact that the active one is red which it 
is.  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.
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.  
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?  And is this actually advertising?  Its hard to see that it 
could be, since many of the links are to sites that would likely not pay.  Is 
it some idiot's idea of how to be helpful?
I'd be on K now, except for the fact that migrating the bookmarks is a 
horrendous process.  K seems to do imports in such a way that you end up with 
everything on one huge page which totally occupies the screen.  Why it cannot 
simply import them in the folders they are in....!
Or is this just me?  Does everyone else think its the bees knees, the dogs 
unmentionables and so on?
Peter