[lug] Ubuntu Firefox v10.0.x Sluggishness & Fix (rantish)

[Davide Del Vento]

> - The auto complete in the address bar is a bit strange.  It goes to
> Google directly instead of just giving me a few choices in a drop
> down.  It also remembers what I've looked at, but mixes that with
> results it thinks I would like to know.  I don't find it "intuitive".

Not exactly what you are looking for, but I did this:
http://superuser.com/questions/355805/
And I prefer FF separation between URL and search boxes (as opposed to
C omnibox)

> - It renders PDFs itself in a new tab.  It's PDF viewer isn't nearly
> as good as Preview on the Mac so I have to right click, save, open,
> which is hard to remember.  I guess I could figure out how to turn
> this off.

You can't. Have you seen my message on this?

>
> - Scrolling is a bit odd.  If there's an inner iframe with a scroll
> bar, C seems to decide which scrollbar I want to use (with gestures,
> not licks) dynamically, and it's trying to be too clever.  I'd rather
> be explicit, but then it's really quite hard to deal with two
> scrollbars so perhaps there's nothing to do here.
>
> Pros:
>
> + Nice validation structure, and the way it does View Source (except
> the keystroke shortcut requires fifteen fingers :).

Actually I prefer FF so much in this respect that I close C and open
FF when I need to do View Source (and especially View Selection
Source!)

> + It's made by Google, and I love all things Google. ;-)

I used to, but the latest changes they are doing are alienating me from it.

Cheers,
Davide