Just downloaded and started using NS6 a couple of days ago. It has been
solid for me and hasn't crashed once. On an Athlon 700 and NT4 it has
been fast and I've seen no noticeable delays when bopping around to web
pages, opening up new windows and doing other common operations.
There are some small but annoying things and one large thing that I'd
like to see improved:
1) In the top URL window you can't right click to get a Copy/Paste/Cut
dialog.
I like to copy URLs out of there into e-mail messages and to paste
ones into there from various other places. I hate having to use the
keyboard to do it or to go up to Edit on the menu bar. NS6 seems unique
in not providing this capability. IE and Opera support this.
Also, if you select some text in a page and right click on it you can
then select Copy so its not like the idea of right click in order to get
paste buffer commands is entirely foreign to NS.
2) Can't right click on What's Related items to ask that it be opened in
a different browser window.
A particular site may have a nice set of related sites that interest
me. Well, I want to open them in other windows so that I can easily open
more than one of them. No can do. In order to go to a What's Related
entry one has to leave the current page and away goes the current What's
Related list.
3) Bookmark filing: Am I missing something or is it not possible to
choose the folder to file a bookmark into?
I don't want to add the bookmark and then later go in to manage the
bookmarks and then move the new bookmark to its final destination folder.
That is too many steps. There are better ways.
Opera has the best way to do this with its bookmark window on the
left. You can select a folder from that bookmark folder tree, right click
on that bookmark folder, and then choose Add To Current folder. It adds
it directly to the selected folder. Plus, in a very nice touch it pops up
a dialog box that lets you specify what to title that entry. Lots of web
pages do not have meaningful titles and the ability to set the title in
one fell swoop while adding the bookmark is a nice touch.
I'd like to see NS add a tab over on the left that is the bookmark
tree. Opera and IE have it. NS already is using the space of a left-hand
column with the My Sidebar and several choices there. So this wouldn't be
a big departure in terms of UI style but would make it much more usable.
4) Delete of URLs from the imported IE favorites doesn't seem to work.
When I go in to manage bookmarks and try to delete some imported IE
favorites nothing happens. Delete button doesn't work, right click to
choose Delete doesn't work.
