Posts Tagged ‘untoward’

Unseemly Addresses Hindered Firefox 3 Uptake

August 27, 2009

Mozilla’s browser efforts have gone from strength to strength with the releases of Firefox 3.0 and 3.5, but it seems as though the company has now divulged that one of the biggest reasons users didn’t update to version 3.0 when it was released was because of enhancements made to the location bar.

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In a turn that’s just a little sad, “virtually everyone” who provided feedback to Firefox had tried Firefox 3 and bombed back to Firefox 2. It seems as though many users were a bit shocked by the suggestions that were thrown up by their browser when typing addresses after it had had a bit of a poke through their history and bookmarks. The Mozilla team played it very well on its blog, not citing anything untoward, but still getting the message across unequivocably,

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