I installed and (briefly) tried out Mozilla Firefox 0.8, née Firebird, née Phoenix. Oddly enough, I didn't like it at all. While I believe that the developers have been working hard, I didn't see any noticeable improvement.
I did, however, notice that the scrollbar and forward and back buttons were missing! I couldn't figure out any way to get them back. It was decidedly freaky, and I didn't like it. On the other hand, it's not quite as bad as it sounds because I have a five-button mouse with not only a scroll wheel but side buttons which are configured to navigate forwards and backwards. I'll have to try it out a little more and see whether I still hate it in a week.
Dorothea Salo says:
If you right-click on the menubar and select "Customize," you should be able to get your buttons back. I have no idea why they weren't there to begin with.
Laurabelle says:
I did try customizing the toolbar, and it didn't work. Those buttons were nowhere to be seen! But actually it turns out just to be a profile problem. I was trying to use the profile I had created for Firebird 0.6 (and which worked just fine with Firebird 0.7), so it's really not suprising that it borked.
So I tried to create a new profile, but somehow that new profile kept disappearing. I don't know what was going on, but I think I've finally got it figured out. I managed to bork it so badly (by installing too many extensions at once I think) that I gave up, uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox, and started creating another profile from scratch. I think it worked this time.
Joshua Daniel Franklin says:
I don't like it either. I've had several problems: