Browser Woes

[kurenai_tenka]

Just installed Firefox 4, and omg ugly. Couldn't have rolled back fast enough.

Now just trying to fix all the mess that re-installing has caused. *sigh*

Comments

[kurenai_tenka]

Tell me about it, I just fought with it for 2 hours only to end up back where I started (and not where I started before the 'upgrade', bah.

Stupid thing has lost all of my history and cookies. Now I have to re-login everywhere, omg. >_>

[x_reggg]

i know the feeling... i wanted to change back to IE8 once the install of IE9 finished :(

[kurenai_tenka]

IE.... been a long time since I used that!

And yeah, it's so annoying. :( I've rolled back now, but you can guarantee they're going to harass me mercilessly about it.... but seriously, SO ugly.

[jjblue1]

I take this means I'll do better not to update my IE8?

[x_reggg]

Well it depends on the person really..

IE9 to me looks like chrome, and I'm not a big fan of chrome. Most of the things I don't like about it are from the interface of chrome (like download windows/warnings at the bottom of the page, moving the refresh/favourites button to the right) but there are good things about it (autocomplete on the address bar in particular). One non-chrome related thing I don't like about it is the fact that you have less addresses available in the address bar drop-down menu :(

So really, it just depends on whether you like chrome or not :D

oh and if you use tabs. They moved the default position of tabs. I don't know if you can change that because I don't use tabs.

[jjblue1]

Ugly? What's wrong with it? I'm curious since I use Firefox 3 when IE is being annoying... sigh. I wish I kept IE6...

[kurenai_tenka]

You should use Firefox over IE, it's much better! (Just not v4!)

And it's just... really freaking ugly. It also shuffled the positioning of things around and it's a hindrance rather than an improvement. They even changed how you access the options and...eh. So untidy. Not to mention, even though my add-ons had compatibility updates, they still didn't look nice with FF4. >_>

[jjblue1]

My problem is I grew up with IE... (I started with IE3) I know Firefox is better but I cling to IE... which sadly isn't improving... -_-

[kurenai_tenka]

I know what you mean, I had IE for a very long time too.... but I made the jump to FF years ago, glad I did because I probably couldn't switch browsers again now!

[kurenai_tenka]

I've not actually tried Chrome... I just access gmail on my regular browser. How come you use another browser just for gmail?

You have that many lammies in the system that you need CheckFox? ;) Wow!

[kurenai_tenka]

I've set up FF to go from mailto->Gmail. :P

And oooh, I see. I didn't realise the map system was quite so arduous, argh! I gave up on looking at it fairly quickly.

[shazrasha]

I've stuck with FF4 but this has more to do with the fact that it didn't crash every time certain pages updated. I've not liked the look of the browser per say since ff2 so I'm not the fussed about the look change. Also none of my add ons were compatible.

[kurenai_tenka]

Maybe it's just me then. I really like 3.6, but 4 is so bleh. I like minimalism. :P

[shazrasha]

Well I only have the tabs and address bar visible so it's reasonably minimalist :). The Bookmark bar has always annoyed me as I keep accidentally pressing it and I only rarely need access to the main menu stuff.

The tricky bit for me was working out how the bookmarks were organised and added to. That is causing me a bit of fuss as I can't always locate things I've quick bookmarked.

[kurenai_tenka]

The quick bookmarks thing? I just have enough to fit on one line, but yeah I'm always accidentally clicking them too lol. Course if I removed it, I'd just accidentally click the RSS button instead...

My bookmarks actually looked fine on 4! Though apparently it has a different sorting system to 3.6, so maybe that's why?