[ale] Firefox 2.0 vrs 1.5

[Jim Popovitch]

On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 16:24 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> I've used Firefox 1.5 for a long time now, and I have really liked it.
> Two things that Firefox 2.0 do differently frustrate me.   First is
> searching for text in a web page has changed.  In FF 1.5 you could hit 
> CTRL+F and get a neat little box at the bottom of the page to find
> next/previous, etc.  In FF 2.0 all you get is a text box and you have to
> figure out what key strokes to press to navigate the search text.
> 
> Secondly, FF 2.0 seems to have issues for me wrt multiple windows
> displaying various active (i.e. mplayer, flash, java) content.  My
> experiences was that 2 or more "active" windows caused all open browser
> sessions to hang. The only way to recover was to "killall firefox-bin".
> 
> So, I am sticking with FF 1.5 for now.  Any one else see similar or
> other "problems"?

One other think that I dislike about FF 2.0 is the "close" button on
tabbed pages has moved from the left side to the active tab.  This is a
PITA when using tabs to open up all major news sources to scan daily
headlines.  I use to be able to keep my mouse in one place simply click
to close each tab as I finish scanning it.  Now I have to move my mouse
more than my eyes to to the same task.

-Jim P.