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It's the really small things that annoy me about Firefox. For example, in gmail, when writing an email, I can't hit cmd+right arrow to go to the end of a line. And because links are set to open in a new window, I can't cmd+click them to open them in the background.

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Maybe you're on a Macbook that doesn't have one, but the 'End' key serves this exact purpose (jumping to the end of a line).

Agreed about the small things. I'll never understand why they decided to put the ctrl+F find dialog at the very bottom of the window. It trips me up almost every time I use Firefox, which isn't often. The vast majority of computer users are not conditioned to look down immediately after invoking find.

Out of interest, where are you conditioned to look? I prefer an in-window find bar to a dialog getting in my way, and I use programs with the find bar at the bottom (Firefox, Libreoffice) more often than ones with it at the top (Chrome, gedit). For me, the position isn't an issue, as I notice the movement wherever it occurs on my screen.

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Probably the one feature I dislike most about firefox. Having to go to about:config to make changes to my browser behavior.

Example, recent install puts tabs on top of address bar. I prefer the old method. Its not a setting I can access through Options, I have to load up about:config, click past the "world is ending" dialog.

Then comes the game of guessing what they named this item!

This is better than Chrome's complete lack of configuration. I like my browser to select the entire URL when I click in the URL bar once. On Windows, all browsers do this. On Linux, I don't know of any that do. The difference is, Firefox lets me change that option in about:config whereas the Chrome team blows me off by saying "that's the way native Linux browsers work".

How many Linux users accept "that's the default and you can't change it"?

Middle click causes tabs to open in the background in Firefox. IIRC cmd+click is a left click?

Ctrl-click also seems to work (on Linux).

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