Iceweasel sucks.
I knew this since quite a while, actually—most of the firefox developers seem to developing for something else than what I use; but, well, using something else isn't very appealing to me. Anyway, yesterday the Iceweasel 3.0 update came on my laptop, and I couldn't help but sigh. I hadn't tried anything, hadn't read any reviews, didn't know what would happen; but given their track record, I expected only problems. I wasn't disappointed. Or, well, I was, depending on how you look at it.
- When I go to about:config, I want to configure my webbrowser. I have no need for hand-holding.
- When I click on a link in a different application, I want you to open, not to steal my focus. I will decide who gets the focus.
- The URL bar is slow and ugly. Having the title of a webpage show up there serves no useful purpose to me -- if I need the title, I'll go to the "history" part of that browser, that's what it for. Also, the underline-as-you-type nonsense slows things down considerably.
And that's only after a day. I fear the next few weeks. For the time being, hints on getting the above moronic stupidities gone (apart from the about:config one, which takes a single click) would be helpful.
And then of course I'm not even mentioning the fact that most of my add-ons don't work with 3.0 yet—but that is to be expected with a new brouwser, of course. At least flashblock works, which is the most important one.
I use a something else that works exceptionally well for me. It is called Epiphany
Specially noteworthy are the auto-search bookmarks (or however it is called in epiphany).
Oh! And if you use the mozilla backend (webkit was too alpha for me when I tested it), you can use any of firefox'es addons: http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/FlashBlock (it's not click and forget, but works
Read you, Lluis
FWIW, the oldbar extension makes the new urlbar a bit easier to live with. It doesn't restore sane behaviour, but at least it doesn't use 2 lines per entry anymore.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227
Did you try reinstalling add-ons that don't work?
I know - kind of a Microsoft solution - but you might be surprised.
Apparently, people were playing there, and were pissed when it broke their browser. The warning is like the warning you have when you install a clean firefox "Do you want to open so much tabs?" or "Do you want to close all the tabs?".
It has a funny thing called a check box that enable the average user to not be bothered again. I suggest you use it... :-p
It depends: If your application is "fullscreened", clicking on the link without having the focus could lead to interesting situation like "Hey, It does nothing?"
This is a matter of taste. I personally like it a lot better than the old one.