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Damn you Firefox

Firefox 4 has just come out.

I'm a big fan of Firefox and it's my browser of choice (I can't stand Internet Explorer). Having said that I don't know what they were thinking with this release.

First, as far as I can tell there's no new features that my older version didn't have.

Second, half my plug-ins now don't work.

And lastly, and the thing that annoys me the most, they moved the 'home' icon all the way to the right side of the screen. I know it might not seem like a big deal, but it's really annoying. I (and I assume everyone else) spend 99 per cent of my time on the left side of the screen (entering urls, using drop down menus, clicking Web page links, tabbing between web pages that are open, etc.).

So why they would take the button I press the most (the home button) and move it as far away from the area of the browser that my cursor is almost always around (ie. the left side of the browser) is beyond me.

It's so annoying when people take a great product and then mess it up for absolutely no reason at all.

Which goes to the post I made a few days ago where I commented on replacement cycles versus innovation cycles and how companies aren't innovating the way they use to. I mean, it boggles my mind that someone came up with the idea of moving the home button to the most inconvenient spot possible and no one told them that it was a dumb idea.

What's next, is someone going to resurrect the Volkswagen Beetle? Oh wait, never mind, that happened like five years ago. 

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