I wish Mobile Safari on the iphone had a degree of cache so that it souldn’t need to reload pages all the time, including ones I just clicked away from and am returning to.
I have a problem with firefox when a log in windows pops up (the windows style box, not a log in on the website). I have a user name and password that can’t be changed and are random letters and numbers 16 digits long. I usually keep them in my e-mail and can’t click on a different tab when that window pops up. Chrome lets me do this, but I am not always able to use it.
I want one that sets the focus (where the cursor gets set, or where whatever you type will appear) early on when it’s building the screen, so I can start typing while it’s painting. But if I put it somewhere else, I want that freakin’ cursor to STAY THERE, DAMMIT, rather than putting it where it thinks it should be.
I use firefox exclusively. But it makes me pull one of the 3 hairs I have left when I try to type a URL and I find that FF has put the cursor into the “What do you want to search for” box after I’ve typed half the URL.
I didn’t noticed that I could highlight and “search google for…” stuff. This thread rocks!
I am a big fan of backing up. I have a lot of personalized settings and preferences. I wish it was easier to back up my Firefox profile. It’s possible to do and I have done it, but I’d like a nice “back up profile” option somewhere built in, like even in the Organize Bookmarks tool.
Firefox and Netflix *new *formats have some incompatibilities.
With >tools>options>content>colors>pages choose colors checked; I get no vcolor on Netflix new pages.
With >tools>options>content>colors>pages choose colors unchecked; I get no ratings stars and several other things missing on Netflix new pages - but I do see vcolors.
I’d also like FF to work properly with Flash; there’s something wrong with the plugin threading or something, meaning I can’t play smooth videos or games. I’ve been keeping an IE (or lately, Chrome) window around for Youtube and such, and have started to use it for my regular browsing also now.
I wish undo extended to newly closed tabs. I’m surfing, I’m surfing, I click a link that I thought opened a new tab, I hit Command-W to close the window and find it WASN’T a seperate tab and by browsing history is gone. 
(Yeah, there are ways around it, but it’d be nice if Command-Z would bring the tab back.)
Do you mean Ctrl-Shift-T? FF, IE and Chrome will all re-open a closed tab, keeping the history.
I didn’t notice if this was mentioned already, but that context menu option changes depending on what your currently selected search provider is. So if you click the little down arrow on the search bar icon and set it to Wikipedia or Google Maps, then the context menu changes to “Search Wikipedia for…” or “Search Google Maps for…”.
One step to open the current URL in another (specified) browser. I pretty much like Opera, but it is the fourth or fifth browser developers test for compatibility if at all, so there are too many pages that Opera can’t abide. One click to switch to IE (shudder) would be a blessing. Bonus points if it would export associated cookies and history at the same time.
Automation of the GD State pull-down menu that every registration or shipping info form seems to have, or at least a good way to use it from the keyboard. Do developers actually believe people don’t know the two letter postal abbreviation for the state they live in? Or the number for the month they were born?
Speaking of which: How about all the browser companies get together and come up with ONE standardized, universal registration form, so a site can just ask if it should use your browser’s default data to fill in the form. If a site really does have unique data requirements (say a ham radio site asking for a FCC callsign) then it can still fill out 95% from the standardized template. If there were such a standard, I don’t think it would take long for consumers to drive compliance.
Yes browsers have form filler apps, but developers find lots of ways to confound them…like insisting that area codes be in parenthesis, or calling the field “family name” instead of “last name” or not allowing spaces in Mr. C de Baca’s last name entry.
Ever since I’ve gotten Chrome I’ve been happy with it. I haven’t noticed any increase in browsing speed like a few people suggested I would but it’s really streamlined and smooth. One teeny tiny thing that annoys me is that whenever I have a Chrome window open already and open a second (or third) window, that new window is never maximized. When I first start Chrome, it’s maximized, but subsequent windows aren’t. And I often have several windows open, each with a handful of tabs.
Chrome is still unable to reliably open Adobe Reader. It simple displays a blank frame 45% of the time, crashes 5% of the time, and works the other 50%. When I’m doing something PDF intensive such as scientific reading/research in online journals, I don’t even bother with Chrome anymore; IE 8 is a far more reliable option.
Also, it does not have a feature to open downloaded files from cache rather than save them then open them, which, IMHO, is retarded. If a file is unsafe, it’s still just as able to harm my computer if I open it after saving. Additionally, with UAC on a modern OS like Vista or Windows 7, it’s almost entirely unnecessary.
I like Chrome a lot, but I wish that when you did a search you could click on the search terms to find them in a page – like you do in the Google toolbar.
I also wish you could drag and drop text.
I wish it was easier to make and delete bookmarks. I use Safari. In Firefox there’s an extension called “Add Bookmark Here” which puts a menu item named the same into the bookmark menu and every folder. If you select it, it bookmarks the current page in that folder. I’d like Safari to have something like that. I’d also like to be able to delete a bookmark by simply right-clicking on it and using a contextual menu, instead having to go to “Show bookmarks here” and hunting for it.
The reason I want those features is because I have a habit of keeping tens of tabs open, and it tends to bog my computer down. I would prefer to be able to quickly make temporary bookmarks instead of keeping them open.
There’s a Firefox extension for that.
I have actually worked designing sites for people that complained that I designed the site testing it with Firefox, then worried about it working in everything else, because they were most concerned with their Internet Explorer being able to show it. When pointed out the many advantages of updating browsers, they want to put fingers into their ears and ignore the conversations…
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