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Re: [LUG] firefox update

 

On Thu, 1 May 2014 18:29:51 +0100
Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Neil,

>Agreed on that. I am pleased to find that I am not the only one who
>does not like it. My feeling is that, if the maintainers want to change

For the most part, I'm not too bothered about the changes.  Although it
will take a while to retrain hands (and eyes) to move to different
places.  OTOH, I'd much rather that I were allowed to keep my old layout
and styles.

Also, the upgrade showed that there was some corruption in my settings
directory, or that the upgrade wasn't performed cleanly.  I like to have
the sidebar open loaded with bookmarks.  After the upgrade to 29, this
always opened as a grey empty panel.  I had to toggle it off then on to
be able to view the bookmarks.  Also, the "Customise..." page opened
empty.  Nothing, nada, zip.  I had to move my old settings out of the
way to overcome the problem.  I'm slowly building it all back into
place, one bit at a time.

Something else I've been trying to solve, but can't.  The throbber.  I
liked having it in the menu bar, especially if I had only one page open
(i.e. no tabs).  It's simply not possible to have it there any more.
It's been removed from the Customise options.  So now, if I want a
throbber, I *have* to have tabs on all the time.  That's just a waste of
space to my way of thinking.  Web pages are usually longer than my
screen height (sometimes  a lot longer), so why make matters worse by
reducing the effective height of the viewing area?

And another thing (although nothing to do with FF) why do so many web
sites wrap text in such a way that there's a couple of acres of dead
space to either side of them?  Yes, I know it's easier to read shorter
lines, and this is really a complaint about the insistence manufacturers
have of making all monitors wide screen, but I do feel somewhat better
for getting that off my chest.   :-)

I was so disappointed when my old 4:3 monitor died and I couldn't get
another one.

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