So, I've finally made the jump, from plain ol' Mozilla. It's pretty nice and loads up faster, which makes me happy, it's searching feature isn't as nice as the googlebar plugin, just little touches in that department.
It'd be nice if the options allowed for more tweak-ability from get go rather than hide it from you, but the idea is to simplify the interface. Speaking of interface it's small and everything is where it should be, except the theme is kinda sucky.
It's been said elsewhere, but it's worth repeating, it's not complete and they should have just left it alone. The icons convey enough meaning but the reload/refresh icon isn't that great as the icon takes too long to figure out on a cursory glance and thus it's not doing its job all that well.
Also, since the search text field is stuck in the corner it ends up being fairly small, even with a reasonable size window. Personally, one text field for addresses and searches would be better, with both a keyboard shortcut for search and site search and a pull down button/menu. Either that or they should have the address bar and search field roughly the same size, maybe the search field should be bigger. The URLs most folks type are likely very short or are simply bookmarked. Most of the time I have many words in my google searches.
I also went nuts and themed the crap out of my desktop, no more start bar, I use stardocks objectdock. Fairly cool but could use a bit of work here and there. Especially in the bugs department.
It'd be nice if the options allowed for more tweak-ability from get go rather than hide it from you, but the idea is to simplify the interface. Speaking of interface it's small and everything is where it should be, except the theme is kinda sucky.
It's been said elsewhere, but it's worth repeating, it's not complete and they should have just left it alone. The icons convey enough meaning but the reload/refresh icon isn't that great as the icon takes too long to figure out on a cursory glance and thus it's not doing its job all that well.
Also, since the search text field is stuck in the corner it ends up being fairly small, even with a reasonable size window. Personally, one text field for addresses and searches would be better, with both a keyboard shortcut for search and site search and a pull down button/menu. Either that or they should have the address bar and search field roughly the same size, maybe the search field should be bigger. The URLs most folks type are likely very short or are simply bookmarked. Most of the time I have many words in my google searches.
I also went nuts and themed the crap out of my desktop, no more start bar, I use stardocks objectdock. Fairly cool but could use a bit of work here and there. Especially in the bugs department.