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Personal homepage: [http://www.freewebs.com/valcon ACD - HUB]
Personal homepage: [http://www.freewebs.com/valcon ACD - HUB]
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Firefox is by far one of the best browsers available but for many people it's still a hard browser to accept. Sadly Firefox still needs a lot of work and I'm not just talking about the god-awful startup load times. Honestly though, there are a lot of extensions that fix about every complaint I have, except one. That one complaint would be that Firefox doesn't install onto my computer this way. Sure it's up to every user to figure out how they want their browser but I think we need to move beyond that thinking.
Firefox is by far one of the best browsers available but for many people it's still a hard browser to accept. Sadly Firefox still needs a lot of work and I'm not just talking about the god-awful load times, which are improving greatly. Overall the purpose of this write-up is just to enlighten others by bringing together some of the more intelligent browsing enhancements I've found. I'm also hoping that actual Firefox user-interface developers might consider setting the browser up as I have, but not everyone thinks like I do. Many others besides myself have suggested the following changes but I'm afraid those people and I may just be power-users.
 
There is a delicate matter of when to integrate a feature and when to leave things up to third-party extension developers. Apple is the perfect example of a company that screws over innovative third-party developers by ripping off their ideas, for example [http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/07/29.7.shtml Watson and Sherlock]. I suggest not supporting this one-way exchange of ideas and innovation. Instead, I advise the careful consideration of the perceived problems listed below. If a feature can increase user adoption of Firefox as a default browser then it should be strongly considered for integration. Then if and when possible the original developers of the integrated features should be given credit. The way the [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/add-ons/campus/ Firefox Campus Edition] was developed is something I've considered very commendable. The bundling of extensions with the browser in that case seemed appropriate. However for the general public, it may be more appropriate to tightly integrate fixes to the problems listed below into the actual core Firefox framework.


<b>CURRENT IMPLEMENTATION EXAMPLES:</b><br>
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<b>DISCLAIMER:</b> I'm not encouraging the use of Adblock, that's just my personal preference. Also, the Back-Forward buttons on my browser are not [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2210 Unified]. They only look that way because of the [http://riz4l.deviantart.com/art/iFox-Graphite-2-4-2-34186081 iFox] theme I'm using. The actual [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2210 Unified Back-/Forward Button] extension has problems with certain Firefox themes.
<b>DISCLAIMER:</b> I'm not encouraging the use of Adblock, that's just my personal preference. Also, the Back-Forward buttons on my browser are not [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2210 Unified]. They only look that way because of the [http://riz4l.deviantart.com/art/iFox-Graphite-2-4-2-34186081 iFox] theme I'm using. The actual [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2210 Unified Back-/Forward Button] extension has problems with certain Firefox themes.


--[[User:Operations|Operations]] 18:54, 4 December 2007 (PST)
--[[User:Operations|Operations]] 19:30, 4 December 2007 (PST)
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