QOTD: How Would You Change Your Browser?

[viometrix]

[citation][nom]burnley14[/nom]If you could make the top toolbars smaller/disappear, thus maximizing browser screen area, that would be ideal.[/citation]
ummm you can make it disappear, or auto hide

 

[viometrix]

i personally would like to have the option to put all of the items that are at the top of my browser, on the bottom.... that way i am not having to move my mouse across so much real estate. i would also like the option to have the favorites on the bar double stack instead of ribboning off to the side making me click an arrow to view them.

and most of you got the question wrong, this isnt a what browser do you use or whats the best, but changes youd like to see to a browser to make it better for you or people in general..

 

[leon2006]

As long as its free... I'll use any browser. One has no glaring advantage from the other. I can leave with any browser.

No reason to jump from one to another. There are more important things to do with the computer.

 

[doomtomb]

I'm barely catching up to FF 3.5 and already talks of 3.7 and 4.0.

So what needs to be changed? Better stability in FireFox. I don't use Chrome, I used it for a week and uninstalled it. It was fine but I loved FF. Now FF has recently crashed on me a lot and doesn't have native support for flash and all that other stuff. I think a more streamlined interface and better stability is what is needed most. I also have Opera and IE installed on my machine but FF is what I use mostly.

 

[Guest]

All I want is the browser to be responsive, if it has to do something like open a pdf file, or some other task, why should it gum up?

 

[afrobacon]

Firefox's add-ons, Safari speed, Chrome minimalist design, Opera everything else...

 

[PepiX]

[citation][nom]burnley14[/nom]If you could make the top toolbars smaller/disappear, thus maximizing browser screen area, that would be ideal.[/citation]


Pretty much every browser does that with a button press.. F11 ...

 

[DarkMantle]

fix all the bugs in opera 10 and bring it out of beta 😉

+1 to that.

 

[tipoo]

Full 64bit support and efficient use of multiple cores.

 

[XD_dued]

I really liked the chrome user interface, how it was minimal and had nothing extra. However, what bothered me was the googleupdate.exe process that would always start. I think it should just check for updates like firefox, instead of having this process...it bugged me enough that i'm back on FF, i'm just picky like that lol

 

[lifelesspoet]

[citation][nom]afrobacon[/nom]Firefox's add-ons, Safari speed, Chrome minimalist design, Opera everything else...[/citation]
+1
I have all four of those browsers for the reasons stated. I default to opera because of mouse gestures but use firefox when I must for compatiblity. Safari on the netbook for speed and screen optimizations. I also use IE when i want to show people how it fails at rendering standards compliant websites.

 

[ravewulf]

[citation][nom]burnley14[/nom]If you could make the top toolbars smaller/disappear, thus maximizing browser screen area, that would be ideal.[/citation]
They already have that. It's called F11 (I just tested in IE and FF, probably works in the rest as well)

 

[RogueKitsune]

For IE which i rarely use, I would like for it to be able to keep up with the ever changing w3c standards. It also needs a MAJOR speed boost.

Chrome which I mostly use on my laptop it great. Its a little too minimalist for me but that is not a problem. The problem is really lack of add-ons

Firefox is the browser i use the most. There not a few complaints i have about it, but most are superficial. First I would love for FF to have some sort of Aero integration with Vista and 7. Secondly I want an actual 64-bit release of FF. Third is just Increase the speed a little more. 😛

Last thing is not a complaint about browsers but a complaint about Adobe and their lack of 64-bit flash for windows OS's -_-

 

[jjjaallen]

Opera

 

[derek2006]

If Internet Explorer supported spellcheck I would switch instantly.

 

[cruiseoveride]

FF needs to be faster

 

[seatrotter]

In Opera, for starters:

- add option to warn user when closing a window when there are 2 or more tabs open. really, accidents do happen. firefox and safaric have this feature all along and even though I've requested of this before, still nothing.

- do not reuse tabs for certain things, such as clicking Help->About Opera. or better, just provide options to disable such behaviour (for more smooth transition).

For Firefox:

- is the stupid "feature" of using (unlimited) temp files for random seed still present in the latest stable version? remove it!

 

[Asinger93]

I wouldn't. I use chrome

 

[jarnail24]

I have used IE since windows 95. Tried all other browers and always come back to IE. Not a fanboy its just something I'm used to. But I do wish internet explorer felt as responsive as safari. Give me IE with speed of safari.

 

[ALANMAN]

I use Firefox, and there's only 1 thing I've ever wanted to change...

When you open a new tab have it load your homepage instead of a blank page.

 

[royalcrown]

Firefox needs a simple "import/export" bookmarks type thing.

 

[rickyslc]

i support firefox.. cos it have history + add-on, the original history is no useful for me cos it mix all date together but the add-on is let u c past 1 day, 2day, 3 day history that u browser.. IE maybe have but don know at where.. history make me easy get back the page i forget the url.

 

[aziraphale]

Maximizing screen area, get rid of all unnecessary knobs and fancy things, include adblock plus per default, enhance search functions.

 

[ceteras]

I'd add the capability to block any kind of animation displayed.
I use FF with Flashblock, but that does not prevent all animations from being shown. A simple "Stop animation" position in the context menu would be nice.

For sites where animations are too aggressive for me, I use greasemonkey to alter the page and remove these, but sometimes I'm too lazy to write another js script.

 

[Guest]

Native JPEG2000 support (combined with JPEG2000 image indexing by Google)