Firefox Dis-Improvement??

I've been using Firefox for a couple of months now, and just about everything seems to be improved over Mozilla, but with one really notable exception. In Mozilla, when you use tabs, the dropdown menu under "Go" is specific to the tab you're presently in. If you want to go back a few pages in that particular tab, you can do that with no trouble. In Firefox, the "Go" menu only shows you a few pages back, and combines all the pages you've viewed under any tab. Definitely less useful for someone who does a lot of research on multiple subjects simultaneously!! Is there any way around this, or is this truly FUBAR??

 

Did you lok at History? I keep History to 2 days, although, I, often, deleted. But clicking on History, a sidebar opens. Since, I never use Go, I did not know what to find there, but I think that it is a darned feature.

 

I keep a long History, and use it often, but that was such a handy feature for those of us who multi-task!

The other thing I've noticed about the Firefox "Go" dropdown menu is that when I am reading a multiple-paged article, I may not have enough history shown there to get back far enough to reach the beginning of the article! Very annoying. I just went back and tried it in Mozilla, just to verify my memory of it, and yes, "Go" works much better in Mozilla. Firefox may be - and I hestitate to even say this - not be all that much better in this instance than the dreaded Internet Explorer.

How much trouble would I have switching back to Mozilla for browsing while keeping Thunderbird for email...

 

"How much trouble would I have switching back to Mozilla for browsing while keeping Thunderbird for email... "

No problem at al if you had Mozilla, and, just uninstalled it. The profile should still be around.
I will have to take a look at Mozilla's History, and see what and why it does better for you. But, with a purposely short History, I may not be able to tell.

 

So how would I go about dis-associating Mozilla from its built-in email? It's not such a problem on my work computer, which is quicker and has a faster connection, but on my home computer - older and with painfully slow dial-up - having Firefox and Thunderbird as separate entities seems to have made things noticably quicker.

 

There's something else that I've noticed about the way Firefox makes use of History in the "Go" menu that's different than Mozilla - and this is more fundamental, but harder to explain without knowing the precise terminology.

When I'm reading an article in an online newspaper, for instance, and I want to get back to the main page - that is to say, back further than the first page of the specific article - it's not included in the dropdown menu. And when I've been reading more than one article from the same paper - but in two different tabs - the first pages of both articles will be identifed in the "Go" menu, but still not the main page that I've gone through to get to those articles. I have no idea what would be behind this difference, but for my own particular purposes Mozilla just does it better!

What surprises me is that there isn't any mention made of this anywhere, and that - at least in a superficial look at the extensions - there doesn't seem to be any way to customize Firefox back to the way Mozilla does it.

 

This is another non-issue for most people. I am one of them.
I did not even know what was in the Go button. But, I much prefer what I see in FF. But, everything depends on what you are used to.
You could try to participate in the Mozillazine.org groups, if you can figure it out.

 

I also much prefer the look of Firefox, and this is just one of those very minor changes that surprised me. I always thought that "Go" was a very handy feature, especially in combination with tabbed browsing, that nobody else seems to have caught onto. It just disappeared without comment, and made Firefox just a bit Micro$oft-like in its opacity!

 

That's for sure. and, I am use the FF-based Netscape Prototype which is even more M$ leaning ( not surprising since it is owned by AOL). But, one never knows. At this precise moment, I like it, because, somehow it opens the WMP format from several PBS radio stations. I have not succeeded in getting any gecko-based browser to do anything more than downloading the link.

 

I refuse to use WMP, but I've made my peace with Real for the NPR stations I can't live without. I just click frantically on the station I want, and keep my finger on the mute button on my keyboard in order to get past those obnoxious ads!

 

I am not going to get worked out on such issues. If my station of choice streams with WMP format, fine. There is one case where I can a free stream with WMP and I have to get Radio Pass to get the Real Player stream. It is a way to get money (the latter) for a non-profit making station. I send a donation, and use WMP10. Up to its release, I was using Jet Audio or Music Match for WMP formats, and still am sometimes.

 

My Firefox has the Go button to the right of the address bar. You need to customize the toolbars and drag it where you want it.

 

shadowhawk:
I think they're discussing the "Go" drop-down menu item near the top left of the FF window (between "View" and "Bookmarks ").

 

You got it. I discovered it only a few months ago, when I wanted to see what was there if I set History to O or 1. I never used, and I bet that 99% of the people have no idea that it serves a useful purpose.
Oh, yea, I got the other Go, too, and it is an optional button.