url URL date not supplied blake blogs NUMBER about how mpt NUMBER wants mozilla to look just like msie i have to admit the evidence is pretty compelling i recall someone asking me do you really agree with mpt s top NUMBER list he s quoted you at the top of the list do i agree that those ten items mpt mentions are the top ten problems of course not no two people will have the same top ten problems also keep in mind that mpt and i can agree that something is a problem without necessarily agreeing on the solution to the problem maybe we have different ideas regarding how to solve a particular issue but we at least both believe it is an issue that needs to be addressed that s something to cover the list specifically navigator chrome structure while i don t necessarily agree with mpt s proposed default configuration i do agree that the chrome structure is painfully restrictive and that customizable toolbars need to be implemented in order for us to acquire the flexibility to deal with this problem speed can t argue with this except to say that cutting out a lot of the useless ui and features from the chrome helps substantially reduce bloat gain speed text editing if you use chimera on the mac you ll see that the textfield widget is easily the most painful part of the entire application it s buggy slow misbehaves and doesn t edit the way you d expect this is imo chimera s top usability problem message display yes no argument here search yeah it s a mess don t know if it would be in my top ten but it s a mess menu structure this gets back to my blog about how the apps should be separated the menu structure has been complicated in order to deal with multiple applications a clean separation naturally simplifies the menus e g you can eliminate the new submenu easily migration a problem but imo not one of the top ten facing mozilla context menus mpt complains about two click context menus and yet the os default on winNUMBER overwhelmingly is to bring up a context menu on a mouse up if you don t like it complain about winNUMBER but don t cite this as a mozilla usability problem when we re following the conventions of the operating system we simply listen for the wm_contextmenu message that message fires when winNUMBER wants to fire it validation err no not a usability problem to the average bear this is completely irrelevant preferences imo this should be much higher on the list preferences are a tangled pathetic mess again separating prefs for individual apps into unique dialogs would simplify things a great deal but we should also remove nearly half the preferences that exist from the gui mozilla is ridiculously overconfigurable NUMBER URL NUMBER URL 