Firefox Beta Touts Advanced Engine, Solves 8 Flaws

nandemoari writes "Mozilla may be this year's winner in the 'browser battles' as they ready the next beta version of their tour-de-force, Firefox 3.1. Mozilla is resolving eight critical vulnerabilities found in the current version of Firefox — a move sure to garner applause from devoted Firefox users. As this year's crop of new browsers emerges, enhanced features are becoming secondary to one thing: speed. Mozilla is nearly ready to release the next beta version of Firefox 3.1 to the public for testing, and insiders predict that it will outpace even Safari 4, which has been the fastest browser in wide release since its beta began last week." It looks like they also will be upping the next major release to v3.5 to better show the significance of the release.

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Re:And yet

[d3ac0n]

My beef with the Awful bar is precisely what you like about it.

I don't want it searching my bookmarks. I can go to my bookmarks on my own. And you know, as I am sitting here at my home PC in the family room with my kids running around behind me, it might be possible that I don't want them seeing the names and URLs some of the more Adult oriented sites that Mommy and Daddy surf together after they go to bed.

Ultimately, the main problem with the Awful bar is that it TAKES CONTROL AWAY FROM YOU. You can't tell it what to display, or when to display it, or what to search or not search. you can't turn it on or off without dicking around in the about:config. It has a very "Microsoft" feel to it. IE: This feature is "cool" (tm) and you VILL LIKE IT! VE HAF VEYS OF MAKINK YOU LIKE IT! HEIL MOZILLA!

I don't want my Browser doing things without my say-so. the Awful bar takes away some of my freedom and control. I want to keep my freedom and control.

It's that simple.

Re:And yet

[d3ac0n]

Ugh. "-1 missing the point" moonbender.

The point is the loss of Freedom and Control that the Awful Bar introduces. I used porn as a dramatic example. But one could easily substitute just about anything else that a given person might not want some other people to see. Why should I be forced to give up control of the behavior of a KEY portion of the UI of Firefox? I can control pretty much EVERYTHING else, why should this be any different?

My God, if this was IE I was upset about 90% of /. would be UP IN ARMS over this! As it is, as at this moment my initial post has been modded -1 Troll! (as if bringing up a legitimate but slightly off topic complaint was EVER a problem at /. !) is the "groupthink" that strong here that people can't have a single problem with an otherwise good application?

People, Mozilla is not perfect. They made a MISTAKE in forcing people to use the Awesome Bar. The best way to fix the mistake is to REVERT to the old URL bar and offer the Awesome bar as an extension. YOU WOULD STILL BE ABLE TO HAVE IT and all it's "Awesome" functionality. But those that didn't want it would not be FORCED to take it.

Oh, "-1 reading comprehension" as well moonbender. If you read ANY of my other posts you would see that I always completely disable the Awful Bar, rendering my URL bar as nothing more than a place to type in addresses. I hate it that way. But I hate it LESS than I hate the Awful Bar.

One last thing. I was attempting to make a somewhat humorous Nazi/Soviet Russia comparison. (You know; "Ve haf veys of makink you talk!) but I guess that was lost on you. Next time I'll try James Bond: "Do you expect me to USE the Awful Bar?" "No Mr. Bond, I expect you to DIE!" No? Whatever.