One thing that I've always thought of as a very simple, yet very useful feature that Mozilla lacks: The ability to add/remove buttons to the toolbar(s) and to drag/move toolbars, address fields, menus, etc.
Even simple crappy Wordpad has this functionality (at least moving toolbars), and freebie Outlook Express can do anything with the toolbar, but Mozilla simply can't. You can add/remove some standard buttons like Search, but you can't even turn of captions on buttons, like you could in ancient Netscape 4.x With an open source project involving hundreds of developers over a several-year time span, you would expect a very customizable program with lots of design/appearance preferences, but Mozilla is in fact very hard to customize... Ok, you can change skin, but that's about it. I admit that it's not the most important feature in a program, but the truth is that none of my friends usually stick with the default appearance of any program. Personally, I always remove the captions on toolbar buttons, I use smaller buttons, etc. In Mozilla, you can either display the toolbar, or not. Actually, the more I (try to) use Mozilla as my everyday browser and mail client, the more I'm starting to realize that Mozilla isn't as carefully planned as I thought it would be. By just reading the fact that there are _many_ developers involved in a project that has been going on for several years, you simply assume that this program is very outlined and is aiming to be the best alternative out there. At least I did. But appearantly I seem to be wrong, because the only thing they seem to be doing is ignoring suggestions like this one, and fixing trillions of bugs. Is it someone in this newsgroup that agrees with me, or am I just being very negative at the moment? I'm going to be positive too: Mozilla _is_ very standards compliant. I was editing my homepage the other day and I followed the book in CSS formatting, and it actually worked without a problem in Mozilla, but IE6 couldn't display it properly! :) On that point, Mozilla is superior, and something tells me that this (Gecko) is their main focus. Not the UI. I can just imagine the Gecko engine inside a Microsoft designed UI. / David
