Oh well, since i got firebug these days, i wont miss it.

Anyway, out off the other [killthem] bugs, i even voted for about 5 of them, and got suggestions for some more:

*context menu items on linked image:
(on linked image, context menu is horrible long, i hate long context menu’s, first thing i do when i install a extension, is dig through the properties and disable context menu items.)
** Bookmark this link: You can open the link and bookmark it then, remove this.
** Save link As…: you can open the … you get the idea.
** Copy link location: Ok, this is actually useful if you are removing the properties dialogue, i suggest bring the dialogue back, and remove this one.
** Copy Image Location: Ok, this is actually useful if you … Same as above
** Save Image As…: You can click View image and then save it. (Notice Save Image As… should be kept when you are viewing a image directly in firefox).
** Send Image…: Just as useless as all previous options, does anybody ever use this?
** Block Images from …: This is Bug 514739, while you are on it, the entire Block Images feature can be removed from firefox if you ask me. Nobody expect a feature like this in firefox, it’s 4-5 year ago or so now, but then i overheard a conversation of 2 of my classmates, they wanted to remove images from a web page, and where trying to find a extension for it, till i pointed them out this is a default firefox feature.
*context menu items on web page:
** Send Link…: Same as send image above, even less useful as copying the url from the address bar is even easier then copying a image from a web page.
* Options–>Content–>Load images–>Exceptions…: Like mentioned before, this is a useless option. Nobody expect it in firefox, and people will search for a extension (adblock?) when they need it.
* Options–>Advanced–>General–>Accessibility–>Warn me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page: This can go to the Security–>Warning messages–>Settings list, witch by itself is a candidate for removal by Bug 514739
* Options–>Advanced–>Update–>Show Update History: Ok, it’s under Advanced, witch allow slightly more junk then other pages, but i never understood the use of this dialogue. Not to mention the dialogue itself got it’s problems: A link from there always opens in a new window.

Ok, that was long, and i only wend trough visual features now. I’m willing to open bugs on this stuff, if they have any change in not being marked as ‘wontfix’ on first sight
I’m sure there is more stuff that made it into firefox over the year that’s just plain useless for most people. One other thin that bothers me about firefox recently is that the download size is getting out of hand.

Any object in an ui or content layout should have a properties dialog, first as a way of inquiring pertinent information about that object (be it as little as the alt text) and second as a well defined entry point for extensions that can offer a greater amount of information. Also, please consider that a majority of people really came to expect to have ‘properties’ available everywhere.
Myself, I started using Firebird back in the day and _that_ was a fast, light, lean browser. Firefox hasn’t been that way for a long time, nowadays it aims to be powerful and fully featured. There are lots of places where (mostly newly added) bloat must be kept under control and I’m all for simplyfying the experience and optimising the code (yes, that ‘enable java’ checkbox was pointless), but removing _this_ dialog won’t get us a faster/better/leaner product, it will just disappoint a lot of people that used it…

Not even GIMP or ImageMagick support it after two years, so I think it’s safe to say the format is a complete and utter failure. Give us back feature-parity with Konqueror.

Firefox came about because people weren’t afraid to remove things. By cutting down on what the majority of people didn’t want or use, a better, leaner product was made. This is really just an extension of that same philosophy.

Excellent, bookmarks and history are going to be removed then? Since when do the majority use history, gestures, geo-location or microsummeries? I think you see the point I’m making without me elaborating further.

I do use the properties dialog, I use it more often than the never-used features I mentioned above. I think in this instance, you have a feature that’s incredibly useful for the average user on the occassion that they need it.

I say that this code was a candidate for refactoring rather than removal. Oh well…