Yep, I always upgrade to the latest and greatest Fire$ANIMAL when I read the release announcement.
Now the complaints. I hate the installer for Windows XP. Yes, I realize that some people need the installer, but I prefer the plain old download-and-unzip method. Worse still, for some weird reason, the old profile refused to work, so I had to manually sling the bookmarks and form history and signon thingies into the new profile directory. S'all good.
Onto extensions. Open my bookmarks, go to the developer pages and install.Then, the browser refuses to start, but throws a weird XBL error instead. WTF ? Turns out that Tabbrowser extensions are borked. I have anything from 3-5 extensions, all of which I installed within the first few minutes of getting the new version. I didn't know which extension had caused the crash. yikes! Uninstall (bah, stupid installer), reinstall, try them one extension at a time. Figure out it was TBE, uninstall the whole shebang again and install everything else.
Now my whine is that the browser has changed (I have gotten so used to TBE that the context menus and things had been customized). Do the action that I am used to (right click on tab - left click to close the tab) now results in a "new tab" instead :) gah!
I'm thinking of going back to FireBird 0.70.
And whilst you dislike the installer, if it lets people use the flash plugin more easily, I'm all for it...
-Dom
Re:Extensions
tinman on 2004-02-10T10:54:36
err..ugh
:) actually, one of my can't-do-without extensions is the click-to-see-flash plugin :) Most of the flash stuff I see is flashy, irritating advertising. This plugin replaces it with a hyperlink that you have to click. I'd prefer NOT to install flash if I could possibly get away from it
:) Re:Extensions
Dom2 on 2004-02-10T11:16:49
In general, I'd agree, but I like to read the b3ta newsletter each week, which usually has some very good flash stuff in it.-Dom
I must admit I'm not impressed either.
First off it messed my Mozilla 1.6 profile up, though it did leave my FireBird/Phoenix profiles intact....
I've not been able to download the Linux version at all, the server seems overloaded.
Flash is EVIL! anything that enables it is also EVIL. Actually flash is a fine technology, it's just all the advertisers use it, and I find animation very distracting. I use a ZAP plug-in bookmarklet to control things, and I use the "block images" option with great vigour.
Phoenix/FireBird/FireFox is a fine browser, but I don't think it's significantly smaller or faster than the full Mozilla Browser Suite, and it's missing too many functions. It is getting there, and I have no doubt that it will be a great Mozilla 2.0.
