Firefox 3.0 aggravations

Alan Milnes deep64blue at itguru.org.uk
Thu Jun 19 11:50:44 UTC 2008


Steve Lamb wrote:
> Why am I explaining all of this?  Simple.  The above URL tells you how to 
> turn off the presentation.  The search algorithm is not changed.  The old 
> search style was still there as of 3.0b3.  The devs removed the option in 
> about:config to switch back to it and flat out told the many people who were 
> complaining about it, in Bugzilla, that they'll just have to get used to this 
> change in basic browsing habits.  They went on to explain that if people 
> really were upset about it they could write an addon to address it.
Crazy - I like the new feature but don't see why they couldn't keep a 
simple about:config switch for those who prefer that.

Alan




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