Its been hardly two days since I’ve started using Firefox 2.0 and already I am starting to get bogged down by its seemingly backwardness as compared to 1.5.0.7. Now a newer version is hardly backward than an older one…but as the tagline of a useful website says – Because new is not always better! Here are a few features that I (won’t say I hate but) would like see changed in 2.0:
- Spell Check – Alrite! Who doesn’t want to be a spelling champ? I’m sure all of us would really like writing with no mistakes at all but there are times when we resort to minikets or plain ol’ abbros to put forth our ideas. And I sure don’t like the red line that draws across the misspelt words as if it were pointing out my mistakes! Of corz, one can turn it off but not permanently!
- Tabbed Browsing – Both the wonderful extensions that were responsible for some good enhancements of the already-potent tabbed browsing feature – TabBrowser Preferences and TabMix Plus – are not supported in 2.0. And now I miss the opening of bookmarks in a new tab or search results in new tabs. Agreed that itz not the fault of the browser (I’d rather blame the extension developers’) but it would have been nice if these features were incorporated within itself!
- Session Saver – There have been instances when I’ve accidentally closed the browser or due to some unforeseen events, it crashed and upon re-opening it, all my open windows were there for me to resume my work. Session Saving was Bliss!!! And now itz gone.
- Themes – Almost all of my favorite themes that adorned my 1.5.0.7 are now lying unusable on the 2.0. And though its not that big a loss, I kinda miss the look n’ feel of those themes….esp. the Ubuntu human one.
These and some other minor irritants do sour the experience that 2.0 offers me but knowing that the change is for the better, I’d rather move on and not mope around for the lack of these features. And now that I’ve let steam…lemme get back to more prosaic things….
That word wasn’t created by me! I was thinking that quartet would have been apt but this quadrilogy somehow sounds more suave! Now, you might be thinking that that the James Bond Franchise has more than four films…so how the hell I ended up watching four! FOTM is, I watched the FOUR Bond movies that starred, IMHO, the best actor to have played Bond after Sean Connery – Pierce Brosnan.Though many may say that Connery was the best-ever, I think Brosnan more than matches him! And the less said about the newestBond on the block, the better!!!
Not every extension is upwardly scalable….I still remember I lost the really nice extension – Abstract Mouse.com’s Shared Bookmarks – when I’d upgraded to 1.5. So the upgrade to 2.0 final version will also have to wait for a few days!
Sigh! Had been waiting to pen this down ever since the chequered flag fell down on the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos on late Sunday (Indian Time). It was a bleary-eyed me that watched Fernando Alonso cruise on to take the second place in the race and notch up a second successive drivers’ championship crown. The title, however, was decided in Japan itself when a blown engine meant that title-contender Michael Schumacher would start on the backfoot in his quest for the title at Interlagos. All he needed was a spin from Alonso and a victory on sunday! But neither happened as Alonso drove a measured race from fourth on the grid and finished on the second step of the podium.
