In a couple of months, I'll be celebrating 10 years of Firefox use. Or rather, I would be, if the people behind this peerless browser hadn't decided to progressively throw to the dogs all the insightful features that the others didn't have. It used to be that every update of OUR favourite browser was received with excitement and delight: what new wonderful feature have they thought of? Blissful years, so to speak. Nowadays, every update is received with fear and trembling. What previously well-designed feature of the user interface are they going to F*** UP this time?! >>> The first major mistake, was changing the download manager from a separate TOOL to a plain Library feature. Running downloads don't float to the top any more, you can't erase a log entry individually, the window in larger because it has to include the library sidebar etc. You've introduced a daily annoyance in place of the daily enjoyment of having the best DL manager on the net. >>> The second major mistake is moving the bookmarks bar below everything else: bookmarks are NOT part of the page one is looking at, while tabs and the menu bar are. What can be the point of having the eye and pointer "cross" the bookmarks bar every time one wants to do something related to the page or to flip between tabs? And what is the point of having tabs that don't look like tabs but almost like bookmarks. Or of cluttering up the bar with a bookmark library button which cannot be detached from the bookmark button? >>> A third major mistake is REMOVING functions from the customizable set. The case in point is obviously the reload button, which has been fixed at the far end of the URL bar. Apart from the fact, that no sane brain can fathom the reason for REDUCING personal choice for the user, it should be obvious that the reload function is a NAVIGATION function and therefore positioning it to the left next to the FW/BW buttons is the LOGICAL choice to reduce pointer displacement. Plus, this is an obvious case of "marketing myopia" so to speak, i.e. looking at the "competition" instead of the "customer", since the PROPER customizability of the reload button was unique to Firefox. Everybody can make mistakes. But "good" people are capable of recognizing them and CORRECTING them. Please stop emulating the worst of Google who obviously enjoy annoying their users with so-called "improvements", and periodically get an itch to fiddle with the user interface of Gmail, generally by suppressing some previous possibilities for the user. In politics, it is unavoidable to have to put up with a lot of bad things in order to get a few good ones, because parties and presidents come only as wholesale packages. I do not believe this in necessary in the world of computing and WWW. Firefox, like everything on the net, belongs to the users, whether they pay for it or not, as much as it does to its creators. We love the creators. We hate the destroyers. p.s. Kindly refrain from telling me this is not a question. I know it. But this is the only way available to communicate. Not my fault.