I just downloaded Mozilla Firefox version 2.0 for Macintosh an hour ago and have been using it for a while now. I must say that I am quite impressed and it has almost succeeded in switching me over from Opera. However, I would like to see the following features added:
1. Make a trash can similar to Opera on the right side of the tab bar. Navigating to 'History >> Recently Closed Tabs' is just a mouse movement and click too many.
2. When I create a custom search, I would prefer it to be added to the searches drop down menu too.
3. New tabs should open next to the active one, not at the extreme right of the tab bar. At least give us an option to do so.
4. Add drag-and-drop functionality for moving tabs between two open Firefox windows. It is there at present too, but we can only copy a tab to another window (not move it) and it re-loads the page instead of just using the already open page.
5. When you open too many tabs in Firefox, it moves them out of the windows and two buttons appear for displaying the hidden tabs. This can be pretty cumbersome. It should just keep resizing the tabs like Opera.
6. When you right click on an image and select 'Save Image As...', it opens the transfers windows and the image is downloaded again to the selected location. Why can't the browser just copy the cached image to the selected location in the background?
7. In Opera, you can view the source of a page and edit it and then select 'Reload from cache'. The page will be re-loaded to reflect the changes you made to the code. It's a good feature that is lacking in Firefox.
8. The most space efficient way to view the progress in detail while a page is being opened is to set the option to show the progress bar inside the address bar in Opera. Another feature I cannot live without and is absent in Firefox.
9. Choosing 'Open All in Tabs' from any folder in the Bookmarks list opens all the bookmarked items on top of the already open tabs. What sort of a crappy implementation is this? How intelligent do you have to be to understand that the user needs the open tabs too! This feature has practically been rendered useless, thanks to the shoddy modus operandi.
10. This last one is a Macintosh specific demand. Apple's native applications (such as Safari) resize the windows to the size of the contents on pressing the green plus (+) button (i.e. the zoom button) but Firefox doesn't. Selecting any word and right clicking on it should have the option 'Look Up in Dictionary' and Firefox lacks this too.
I would be very thankful if someone told me how to access some of the features I mentioned if it is possible and I have overlooked it. Any extensions or plug-ins that enable any of the above mentioned features are also welcome.
Thank you!
Go to <a href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config">about:config</a> and change "browser.tabs.tabMinWidth" to a smaller number that suits your needs. Changes take effect the next time you open a new window.
