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leetmasterjames in techsupport

Dear Firefox Dev Team

Apr 04, 2011 05:01

When you make a new version of something, reducing the functionality so as to "add" functionality does not work. Seriously I should not need to download an addon to get my status bar back permanently instead of whenever you think I should see it. I like seeing "Done" or "waiting for www.slow-web-site.com ( Read more... )

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jecook April 4 2011, 05:15:35 UTC

Ah, Firefox 4.

Glad I held off updating my primary house machine and the work beast- the movie machine's none too happy with it. :(

kuangning April 4 2011, 06:14:12 UTC

Amen on moving the damn buttons. What the justification for that was, I cannot begin to imagine. I don't miss the status bar though.

badpauly April 4 2011, 06:58:37 UTC

Wait until you find the next bit of joy - it seems to regularly default back to it's default layout. Added extra buttons? Removed ones you don't move? Moved some to fir with the workflow you were used to?

"Nah, mate, dunno what ya talking about, this is how it was, right?"

I seem to rebuild the layout on a weekly basis - usually after it decides it needs 1GB of RAM to run 5-tabs.

brotherflounder April 4 2011, 13:47:04 UTC

The RAM overload is why I switched to Chrome ages ago.

The layout issues are why I shall be sticking with Chrome for the foreseeable future.

the_reda April 4 2011, 07:58:57 UTC

... and that is why I am not updating firefox any time soon.
Also, is it just me, or ... every time I do update firefox gets more crash happy.

kizayaen April 4 2011, 08:01:11 UTC

Seriously with the reorganizing all the damn buttons. It's like a plague MS started (or at least headlined) with deciding that not one single damn button in Office should be recogniseable for 2007. I'm still annoyed by that.

It's been four years, now. About time to start wondering what horrible clusterfuck they're going to perpetrate upon us next so as to obsolete the "new" docx/xlsx formats and give people a reason to pay yet again for the same functionality we've had with every previous release.

alicephilippa April 4 2011, 09:30:43 UTC

This is why I've stuck with FF3.6.x and now use OpenOffice.

Next laptop upgrade I shall be worshipping at the Temple of Steve.

kizayaen April 4 2011, 11:24:38 UTC

Oh, believe me, I don't use Office 07 except as mandated by work.

For personal use, it's FF3.6 as well for me, and Office 2000.

The Cult of Apple also drives me crazy, but for different reasons entirely.