[Bug 252703] [NEW] UI design problems

[Damien R. S.]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

I was upgraded to Firefox 3.0 by Ubuntu, and have a couple of problems
-- perhaps not bugs so much as functionality taken away by UI decisions.

* I use Gnome/Ubuntu, and can right-click on urls in terminals to have
them open tabs in Firefox.  With FF 2, a minimized Firefox would jump to
the foreground, but a Firefox in the background would stay there.  FF 3
always takes the foreground.  Since I often open many urls at once (from
an e-mail, say) intending to read them later, this is not the behavior I
want.

* Like many, the "awesome bar" is not awesome for me.  I was used to
typing the start of a URL in the address bar and having it appear.  The
new keyword search is not what I want.
browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped;true made it more like what I want, but it
still feels off, and there seems to be a shortage of remembered or
searched URL.  And, of course, the new two-line display with large font
for the description part means that less than half as many urls can be
displayed by the dropdown.  Again, the change seems to have been
introduced with no ability to go back to the old behavior.

I am strongly considering going back to FF 2, balanced by the new Page
Info functionality and the fact that FF 2 + Flashblock sometimes crashed
closing a Flash page (not that I know yet if FF3 is better).

...and I got here by using Help -> Report a Problem in Firefox, which I
thought would mean I'd be complaining to the Firefox team directly; I
now see I seem to be in an Ubuntu system, which seems less useful all
around.  My apologies.

Ubuntu: 8.04.1
Firefox 3.0.1

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jul 28 14:47:17 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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UI design problems
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