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I've got bad news guys...

I bought a great sport car. it's got great engine, handles great, but it's a total disaster ...

The cigarette lighter is in such a place that I can't see it when I'm drivin. I have to bend to use it... That's a shame.

I think I'll have to give the car back soon.

That's very shameful from these guys who were supposed to design great cars.

I'll keep you posted.

I think it is safe to say that Firefox served it purpose by spurring the other big players into realizing they were way behind schedule on their own browsers.  Since Firefox became popular both IE and Safari have undergone huge improvements, and in my opinion both are now as good or better than Firefox in almost all of the ways that Firefox became popular for in the first place (aside from extensibility which is only important to a very very small portion of consumers).

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I think saying it's a disaster is going a bit far, but I don't like the new theme either.  Why is the back button bigger than the forward button?  I can think of no logical reason for this to be the case.  Were people having a hard time finding the back button?  

I have similar questions about IE.  Why move all the interface widgets around for no good reason in IE7?  

The good part is that the Firefox interface is easy to fix.  I'll just grab the Firefox 2.0 theme (or Vista theme or whatever) when the browser is released.

The Mac UI looks great. The Windows one looks like it was made in under two hours.

@Pthurrott: You sure have a knack for keying in on the most important aspects of a story. I hope you keep hammering on this, since there's really not much else to talk about with FF3. BTW, this is the best reporting on a product since CRN's on XP SP3, so good work.

@BrightrevCarl: Isn't it obvious?  Because the Back button is used much more than the Forward button.

@rseiler - Fair enough, but the back button is the first interface element on the left in an app with essentially five important buttons, so it's not hard to find.  The big back button seems unnecessary, as does the little tray area beneath the back and forward buttons.  I like things clean and simple, and the new theme is funky and unbalanced.

Like I said above, I'm happy to solve my own problem by dumping the new theme when I start using FF3.0 full time.

Actually the back button is the most used in a browser.

So I'm happy to have it bigger than the other ones. So now calling the theme unbalanced just because that button is bigger than the others is rather far fetched...

I can't believe that a Vista user would have the gall to complain about a UI. After all, you are using a horrendously looking operating system. "Vista. It's like looking at an 90 year old in drag."

^ I don't agree, but prepare for the flames ...

daveinla... drylight's comments don't even deserve a flame ;)

I personally think that OS X's is decent, and at least better than Safari, but the new one for XP (I'm assuming it looks the same in Vista?) is worse than what they have now!! It's not so much bad as it is antiquated, and seeing how everything else is moving forward in UI design it's like Mozilla is moving backwards...

First it was Symphony is good (better than OpenOffice) because it looks pretty.

Now FF is bad because it is ugly.

Maybe you should switch to Mac because it is shoooo pretty ;-)

BTW Symphony is crap (Beta 2) it can't open documents when you move document icon on Symphony's window or desktop icon.