The removal of the status bar was all about obscuring corporate abuses on the web, like the google click tracking on its search, or eg “waiting for ”. The standard line is that it makes things easier – except the hypothetical granny who needs things to be easy still has to learn what the “Awesome” bar trying to acheieve, which overall is more complex that the 3 simple concepts of URLs, history, and bookmarks. I want the address bar to be simple and do what it is meant to: If I need to look in my history or bookmarks I can go there, not try and sift through a wall of bollocks. I don’t want some middleman handling my data, so I have no need for the feature. p:f is also used to recreate the look of frames, but with worse functionality (scrolling with the keyboard works fine with frames, with p:f it can make using the keyboard an annoyance). Stuff that floats in your eyeline when you scroll apage? That’s p:f. I want the browser to not honour position:fixed elements, it is abused like pop-up windows were (only worse).
I also want rid of geolocation (I will type in my position, I definitely don’t want third parties “helping” and mooching and tracking and monitoring) – though I think if the right geolocation files are deleted from the FF program directory the functionality can be removed proper right now. Great, another feature that has to be turned off, but cannot actually be removed :(Īnd just like Mozilla (Google’s non-profit service delivery specialists) flicked JS back on for users who had it turned it off with a recent update, and removed the UI element to turn JS back off, a feature being there but off is still an immense annoyance and liability (a concept fanboys are unable to comprehend – though when juxtaposed against a real-world case of abuse it is likely to crash their tiny minds).
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