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by fno 6182 days ago
I wish the Firefox developers would focus on bug fixing for the next big release. There are so many bugs that are not fixed for many years. For example alt-text on images not correctly shown or disable-output-encoding on XML/XSLT being ignored. Instead that add more and more features. The awesome bar already made me switch to Opera, I miss some extensions though so I do keep an eye if Firefox gets "better" for me.
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aceofspades19 6182 days ago
Whats so bad about the awesome bar?
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FooBarWidget 6182 days ago
No idea, it's one Firefox's killer features I miss in other browsers.

That said, Firefox 3.5 allows one to VERY easily disable the awesomebar: Preferences -> Privacy -> Location Bar.

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blasdel 6181 days ago
Awesome, and they even exposed in the UI rather than burying it in about:config.

Their arrogance of baking into the browser what is essentially a bundled extension was ridiculously annoying. My favorite added misfeature: it blacklists URLs with the 'about' protocol handler.

I had been disabling / detuning it piecemeal with extensions + settings to make it less obnoxious. I've come to like most of the completion features most of the time, but the visual presentation and interactive behavior is just fucking awful.

At least it's not as bad as Epiphany: it sorts only in direct chronological order (oldest first!), and in true GNOME style is not customizable in any way. Why the fuck would you ever want that?

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robin_reala 6182 days ago
alt-text on images not correctly shown

What is correctly shown? It shouldn’t be shown as a tooltip as that leads people to write alt text that’s specifically useful as a tooltip and useless to the real consumers of alt text: screen reader users and search engines.

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fno 6182 days ago
It was something like no alt text being rendered when images are not displayed or found, I don't fully remember and could not find it in 5 minutes Bugzilla search hell. I did stumble on the still-open bug some days ago though, I think it was 8 years old now.
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InnocentB 6180 days ago
Is this what you were talking about? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45375 - TITLE text is truncated.

Resolved in 3.0, but was outstanding for many years. The bug comments are worth reading (some of them are from the XKCD and Dinosaur Comics guys, whose sites this bug impacted fairly heavily). It doesn't make their dev community look like a place I'd want to be.

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