why FireFox?

i agree with simplicity is best

and thats why i use addons. it makes my browsing much more simple, the ui gets the most simple and least in-the-way ui possible, and i can do tons of things that you don't even consider, like click on a youtube video and chose save-as, or doubleclick www.google.com style text-links and they just open in a new tab.

simplicity is about making my life easy, and getting rid of anything in the way, which is useless.

you think simplicity is, taking the default thing and never think about improving it? well, that's your choice. i prefer to fix usability issues that would bother me each day.

 

I suppose you could prgramme such a skin for FF.

I have to say it sounds interesting

 

well, i have addons with which i can get rid for everything on the top-bar. but i don't know of any sidebar addons that allow putting components in there.

i've seen sidebar tabs, and some button controls, though..

btw, i bet you're a supporter of no-16:9 screens

 

No usability issues in IE/Chrome.... no need to futz with it imo
Sorry to hear FF has usability issues that you need to fix though

 

well, you don't know yet, as you got used to those issues..

 

hehehehehehe.

 

My FireFox works great! Never had any problems with it whatsoever.
FireFox should be used by everyone!

 

one thing that's nice, and everyone should be thankful for firefox for starting this: more and more each browser fixes it's nuissances, so that more and more stuff that was for years only possible trough addons now get, step by step, default in all browsers.

so while you say "i don't need addons, ie provides me with all i need", most of that is because of firefox addons two examples come to mind: the adressbar of ie8 has domain enhancements (the domain notebookreview.com right now is bold on ie8, while the rest of the url isn't) to determine easily if someone has a smoofed url. there is since years an addon on firefox, that does exactly that (and a bit more), it's called locationbar2.

or, in ie8, you now can "grab the page" with your mouse/pen/finger depending on the interface you have, and scroll it then like on an iphone. that is a firefox ext since some years, called grab'n'drag.

and ie as well as all the other browsers continue to copy popular addons after they've proven their usefulness in firefox.


so while you don't care, don't bother and don't act, you still gain from firefox and it's addons

 

I'll give/concede you this point, competition is certainly helping everyone.

 

other nice little addons, one that got ported to chrome, i think: resizing of textboxes.. so if you write some big comment (like i happen to do), you can right-click-n-drag to resize the textbox to a proper big enough size to write in.

another nice addon allows me to zoom pictures, when you open them directly (see a .jpg or .png in the browser), so you can check out big pictures easily, drag them around, look at the details you want, etc..

there are tons of tiny things that then get ported, step by step, and we'll then take then for granted.

 

actually i have a 1080p monitor im typing on
the issue is with the notebook which has 800pixels

 

sounds more or less like here (1280x800 on the laptop, 1920x1080 on the beamer, 1920x1200 on the monitor)

 

Its a idea i had for a long time
But i dont really need this, my next laptop is coming with 1920x1200

 

i don't need it as well, as i have the highest screen vertical estate in firefox anyways, chrome and ie have thicker controls than all my stuff .. so it would not save much and it would make the ui very .. strange.

nah, my next laptop will most likely have more or less the same res, as i stay at 12"

 

For the record, "anyway s" is not a word. Drop the "s" and you have anyway!

Sorry this always bugs me for some reason. I am no grammar nazi though, I always say "there" instead of "they're" and "their"

hehe.

 

Ha, I know...it won't work..will never happen. It was wishful thinking..dreaming on my part. It would cost the company to much, and the conversion would be a hassle for our offsite IT Dept. (So, sort of similar, yes)


Cin..

 

okay, i try to learn (swiss german native here )

 

Is it just me or is something wrong with the 3.5.x strain of Firefox? It chokes up way to often when I'm watching videos on YouTube or browsing MSNBC. I'm on Vista x64.

Heh, I wonder if Microsoft has anything to do with this? Anyways I downloaded Chrome today and am using it for the first time ever. I may switch over to Safari. There's something about Google I don't trust...

 

Mine does the same thing. Also for the last month (I think) Firefox has been crashing on me. I get the "Oh this is embarrassing" message at least a few times a day. I have no idea why its doing that.

 

There seems to be a spate of users reporting issues with Flash and FireFox 3.5

 

It does absolutely everything...