Comments on: The User Interface of Firefox 3: Features

By: ali

ali — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:08:30 +0000

I really need fit to width extension!!! or something that could do it for firefox 3 like opera!

By: Gurtan

Gurtan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:19:25 +0000

I would like to agree with post #68 by Josh McConnel on June 4th.

He mentions how all in the text in Firefox appears jagged when compared to IE7 (IE7 appears to have some sort of “text smoothing” implementation).

As a user of IE for the past 15 years, I switched over from IE because of the crashes and instabilty, and so far Firefox is a decent browser. But one thing about Firefox is the text looks ugly in comparrison and for me this is really distracting and jarring because the display of text is important - the world wide web mostly concerns lots of text and reading of that text, afterall.

I am using a widescreen Samsung LCD SyncMAster 940mw screen with settings at max resolution 1440 X 900, and the text is jaggy.

I realise Firefox is open source, but I simply don’t have the programming knowledge or skill to code this add-on myself, so i really hope we see a text smoothing feature or filter in future updates to make the words look lush and comfortable on the eyes.

Thank you.

By: Jonno

Jonno — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:15:26 +0000

I agree with Comocho: FF needs the equivalent of IE’s ability to save web pages as a single file (mht). I want to be able to select & copy text from saved web pages, so image capture doesn’t do it. Also, on some sites FF’s option to save as “Web Page Complete” assigns a non-descriptive name such as a numerical string as the name of the page. It’s a bit annoying to have to exit FF & go into IE every time you want to save a page.

And it would be nice to be able to put an Outlook Express button on the Navigation toolbar, to check e-mail.

By: jo

jo — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:14:21 +0000

well done

By: Matthew Murphy

Matthew Murphy — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:55:25 +0000

my favicon is blue, godaddy and paypal is green, i have a rapidssl ssl, what does it take to make mine become green someone i know has a verisign ssl and they have blue too

By: Deepak

Deepak — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:26:18 +0000

Does this have version of Firefox have profiled browsing? Similar to the one Netscape used to have? Each user having their own personal space for bookmarks/passwords, etc will be a nice feature to see in FF3.

By: Bill Samuel

Bill Samuel — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:05:56 +0000

The blog post doesn’t provide much on two things that show up in the goals list, and are longstanding weaknesses of Firefox: stability and printing. Is there actually significant improvement in these areas? Does it no longer crash all the time? Will it now print most pages properly, instead of placing different parts of a page on different pages when they should be together? Has the bug that makes it stick on landscape mode been finally fixed?

By: Peter Gregory

Peter Gregory — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:41:01 +0000

Please restore Favicons. I usually run FF with about 15 tabs for sites I frequently visit. Without Favicons, the tabs don’t fit on the page!

By: Parag Gadkari

Parag Gadkari — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:14:47 +0000

Although, it is a nice feature to block websites based on google’s ratings but IMHO the ultimate users should have their say in deciding whether to launch the alleged web site. I didn’t see any option to launch the blocked site. It is as if Mozilla and ultimately Google is trying to control your online identity.

By: Jared

Jared — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:48:50 +0000

I’d hate to see the favicon removed from the location bar. It’s how I bookmark 95% of the time (drag and drop), and I just generally like it there because it always has been.

The “Security Lock” shows up on the right side of the location bar with a yellow background when the site’s security is valid. You’d have to be a total n00b (excuse the slang) to fall for something like that.

At least give us the option to display a favicon if we want to. I might actually choose to stick with FX2 if this happens.