Unfortunately, the “don’t fix it if it isn’t broken” maxim doesn’t get you very far as a developer (I suppose) – people expect new features constantly. I’ve been skipping Firefox 3 altogether and just recently switched to 4, because FF 2 (portable edition) is defenceless against CSS history snooping, even with Stanford’s SafeHistory and SafeCache installed. I’ve been grabbing extensions to restore as much of the old behavior, like “Oldbar” (restores FF 2 locationbar behavior) and “Status-4-Evar” (lets you put the statusbar text (link URL), download progress etc. back where it belongs, even though they’ve officially gotten rid of the status bar). With a bit of tuning, FF 4 is practically as fast as 2 used to be, and I’m coming to like the thing.

This was a very annoying problem. I work with multiple tabs (usually more than 10) at any given time and found it very annoying having to scroll all they way to the end on the browsers panel.

I don’t know why, but lately it seems many applications are making these types of changes that don’t add to usability. I think it would be wise for them to ask their users which features they prefer and find more usable before rolling out these types of features.

You know that saying “if it ain’t broke, then don’t fix it.”

Thanks once again for the tip.