18th
I hate Firefox 3.
Yes. I don’t care what the rest of you think. I don’t care if you think that Mozilla knows best. I think they have fudged up their interface even worse than… well they haven’t really fudged anything else this badly.
So my first complaint is the back button. Why is it such a big honking button?! And the forward button is like a broken trapezoid. Isn’t there a UI desiner at Mozilla that can slap these developers on the wrist? Blech.
I actually find it kind of insulting that they would put that massive back button in. That just says to me, “Oh, well only Windows users need a huge back button because they’re not smart enough to find it.”
I also don’t like all of the hard rounded corners (i.e.: the left edge of the address bar, the edges of the forward/back module, etc.). They’re just plain ugly and don’t look like they belong in a project with the magnitude of Firefox.
My next gripe is the icon set. It’s just terrible. The refresh button is anorexic. Really. I wouldn’t even see it. The stop button is the same way. Didn’t they try to make it more defined in FF2? Besides the sizing issues, the icons themselves don’t have a consistent color palette. Why is the roof of the house in the Home button yellow? I don’t know anyone with a yellow roof. What about the magnifying glass button in the search box? It doesn’t fit inwith anyof the other icons at all. Not even close.
Beyond all of these complaints with the UI, there’s still pathetic support for Acid 3. Honestly. Mozilla knew about this for months. They can’t sit someone down and start figuring this stuff out? I’ve read that it’s because they don’t want to break anything. I’ll be honest: fix the bugs. I don’t care if stuff breaks. I would rather have a standards compliant browser that breaks my pages than a broken browser that does. And with IE8 creeping up, we wouldn’t want Firefox to get left in the dust, eh?
In conclusion, I just want to say how utterly disgusted I am with the Firefox team’s lack of enthusiasm and passion towards the Windows flavor of the browser. I was once a Firefox fan, but have since switched to Opera for problems like this. I think I might just stay on that side of the fence, now.
